U.S. Tennis Association deemed mostly liable for Eugenie Bouchard’s fall

The United States Tennis Association has been found mostly liable for when Canadian player Eugenie Bouchard slipped on a wet locker-room floor and hit her head at the 2015 U.S. Open in New York.

A jury on Thursday found Bouchard was partially at fault. It determined the USTA was 75 per cent to blame, Bouchard 25 per cent to blame. Damages will be determined in another phase of the trial, starting Friday.

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