Eugenie Bouchard’s lawsuit for negligence against the United States Tennis Association after sustaining concussion in a fall at the US Open has received its official response, it emerged yesterday, after court documents filed on Friday by the USTA escaped into the public domain.
Bouchard’s injury occurred after a late-night doubles match, when she cracked her head in a heavy fall in a treatment room. She was forced to pull out of the tournament and suffered a recurrence of symptoms when she tried to make a comeback in Beijing almost a month later.
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According to the USTA, the organisers of the US Open will be rejecting Bouchard’s claim – which her lawyer Benedict Morelli suggested could be worth “millions and millions” – on the basis that she was an experienced member of the professional tour who should have known better than to enter a treatment room alone late at night.
Her legal suit suggested that she had entered a treatment room under Arthur Ashe Stadium and tripped on a “slippery, foreign and dangerous substance”, which should not have been left without visible health and safety warnings.
The USTA response stated that Bouchard “should not have entered the physiotherapy room as she alleges without the express consent of, or accompaniment of, authorised personnel”. The date for the court hearing has yet to be set.
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