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Keeping her promise after losing a Super Bowl bet on Twitter with a random fan, Canadian tennis star Genie Bouchard and her blind date attended a Brooklyn Nets game Wednesday night at the Barclays Center.
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Bouchard and University of Missouri student John Goehrke sat courtside at the Nets game against the Milwaukee Bucks, even throwing souvenir b***s into the stands.
Bouchard tweeted that the Atlanta Falcons would beat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI when the Falcons were leading by 25 points.
Goehrke responded by asking her for a date if the Patriots won, and she agreed.
Bouchard even said she enjoyed the date and would consider going out with Goehrke a second time.
The Falcons blew their lead and the Patriots won the game 34-28. Bouchard made good on the bet and met Goehrke for the game on Wednesday while she was in New York for events connected with her appearance in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
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MELBOURNE, Australia -- Canadian Eugenie Bouchard was eliminated in the third round of the Australian Open on Friday, falling to Coco Vandeweghe 6-4, 3-6, 7-5.
The American took the match in two hours 22 minutes and was the first player into the round of 16.
Vandeweghe converted her only break to take the first set but Bouchard, who reached the Australian Open and French Open semifinals and the Wimbledon final in 2014, levelled the match with two breaks in a dominant second set.
The Westmount, Que., native broke Vandeweghe"s serve to open the third set and appeared to be in control until the American rallied.
Vandeweghe broke Bouchard to even the score at 4-4 in the third set, helped in the process by bouchard"s fourth double fault. at 5-5, Vandeweghe kept her serve before disposing of the 47th-ranked Bouchard with a decisive break.
Vandeweghe, ranked 35th, held a 40-21 advantage on winners. She also smashed 11 aces to Bouchard"s four and took 85 per cent of first serve points.
Vandeweghe has reached the quarter-finals and the fourth round in the last two years at Wimbledon, but her run to the third round in Australia in 2016 was her best at any major not played on grass.
"It"s just another opponent on the way to achieving my goal," Vandeweghe said of an intense match against a player who was ranked as high as No. 5 in 2014 but hasn"t gone past the third round of a Grand Slam tournament since slipping and falling in the locker-room during the 2015 U.S. Open. "Anyway I could get it done -- I just wanted to get the result. Achieved my goal."
Vandeweghe will next play the winner of Friday"s later match between defending champion Angelique Kerber and Kristyna Pliskova, the twin sister of U.S. Open finalist Karolina Pliskova.
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Canada"s Eugenie Bouchardis out of the Australian Open after losing her third-round match to American CoCoVandeweghe,6-4, 3-6, 7-5, Thursday in Melbourne (Friday local time.)
With the win, Vandeweghe is the first woman through to the fourth round.
Vandeweghe rallied from a break down in the third set and fought off four more break points at 4-all before closing out the match in twohours, 22 minutes. She reached the fourth round at the Australian Open for the first time.
"She started playing better and I got a little passive in my game plan and executing it I was able to turn it around thankfully," Vandeweghe said.
Vandeweghe"s new doubles partner, Martina Hingis, cheered her on throughout the match. Afterward, the American joked that Hingis might scold her for playing "too long to be fresh for the doubles."
The american is ranked higher than bouchard, but the Canadian has been playing well and aiming to get back to the fourth round at a major for the first time since 2015.
Still, she didn"t think the win to reach that level was particularly noteworthy.
"It was kind of expected, in my mind, to get the win and to get the victory and to move a step closer to achieving what I want to achieve for this year and also this tournament," she said.
"It"s just another opponent on the way to achieving my goal."
Federer breezes past Berdych
Roger Federer and Tomas Berdych continued their 12-year rivalry on the tennis court with a predictable result a 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 victory for Federer.
The 17-time Grand Slam winner won for the 17th time in 23 matches against Berdych and handed the Czech player his sixth consecutive loss between the pair.
The 10th-seeded Berdych had beaten Federer twice previously at Grand Slams, and he was considered a big threat to the 17th-seeded Federer, whose ranking has dropped following six months off because of a left knee injury.
But Federer looked completely at ease and never faced a break point in the Rod Laver Arena match.
Federer will play Kei Nishikori in the fourth round.
Women"s defending champ advances
Angelique Kerber had a straight-sets win for the first time in her first Australian Open title defence, starting her 6-0, 6-4 third-round victory with an eight-game streak against Kristyna Pliskova.
Top-ranked Kerber beat the other Pliskova twin, Karolina, in the final of the last U.S. Open to capture her second career Grand Slam title. Her first was here at Melbourne Park 12 months ago.
Kerber marked her 29th birthday on Wednesday with a second-round win over fellow German Carina Witthoeft, but said she didn"t celebrate much between matches and hoped to do more at the end of the tournament.
She"ll next play 35th-rankedVandeweghe.
"It will be tough," Kerber said. "I"m ready. I"m feeling good. I"m loving to play on this court."
Wawrinka, Murray advance to 4th round
U.S. Open champion Stan Wawrinka has advanced to the fourth round of the Australian Open, overcoming a slow start to beat Viktor Troicki 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (7) at Rod Laver Arena.
Wawrinka, the 2014 champion at Melbourne Park, reached the round of 16 for the fifth consecutive year. It was his eighth win in a row over Troicki.
The fourth-seeded Wawrinka served for the match at 5-4 and again at 6-5, but was broken by Troicki.
Wawrinka will next play Andreas Seppi, who beat Steve Darcis earlier Friday.
Five-time finalist Andy Murray is through to the fourth roundfor the ninth straight year, beating Sam Querrey 6-4, 6-2, 6-4.
Murray didn"t appear to show any side effects from the right ankle injury he sustained during his last match.
At 4-4 in the first set, Murray broke Querrey"s serve, the final shot coming when the Scotsman lifted a lob over the head of the six-foot-sixQuerrey. The ball dropped well inside the baseline and Murray held serve in the next game to clinch the first set.
Murray, who will next play Mischa Zverev, has lost every final he has contested at Melbourne Park, four of them to Novak Djokovic. Djokovic lost in the second round on Thursday, leaving the opposite side of Murray"s draw wide open.
Scary incident
Australian Open organizers were briefed by Victoria state police over an incident in downtown Melbourne where a man deliberately drove into a street crowded with pedestrians, killing at least three people. Police said the incident, which occurred about three kilometresfrom Melbourne Park, had no links to terrorism.
Organizers said the police had contained the incident and an offender had been arrested.
"Be assured there is no threat to the precinct," a statement read.
