“I Might Pick Up Video Games” – Eugenie Bouchard On Esports Career

Eugenie Bouchard is your best option if you want to talk to a tennis player about non-tennis stuff. The Canadian is one of the most active athletes on social media and maintains a constant level of interaction with her fans.

Interesting, Bouchard has also given her two cents on Esports in the past. Little did she know that the Coronavirus quarantine will make Esports the most relevant sporting action on the globe. With little to no outdoor sports permissible, sports fans around the world are quickly turning to their Play Stations and X Boxes.

However, Esports had already had its moment in the sun. Back in July, the Fortnite World Cup was organized at a huge scale at the Bille Jean King Tennis Center, the venue of the US Open. Eugenie Bouchard had hinted that she might pick up an Esports career.

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What did Eugenie Bouchard say? 

Eugenie Bouchard talked about Esports after the Rogers Cup 2019. An Overwatch event had happened on the sidelines of the US Open. That’s where Bouchard first got to engage with the gamer inside her.

“Yeah, it’s the first time I really experienced the gaming world. And, you know, I heard the winner of Fortnite recently made $3 million, so I might pick up video games. (Smiling.) I mean, that’s crazy, that’s impressive, and it’s a whole world I never knew.”

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Bouchard was alluding to the 16-year-old Kyle ‘Bugha’ Giersdorf who had won the Fortnite World Cup and taken US$ 3 million home as prize money. The event itself had a financial impetus of $30 million. It certainly pointed towards the fact that big things were on the horizon for the newest revolution in the sporting world.

As for us, we would love to see Eugenie Bouchard pursuing professional Esports as her career during the quarantine period.