Bouchard feels vindicated by lawsuit outcome

LOS ANGELES, California: Former world number five Eugenie Bouchard said Saturday she felt “happy, relieved and vindicated” after a jury found the US Tennis Association mostly liable for her fall at the US Open in 2015.

“After 2.5 years my lawsuit against the USTA is finally over,” Bouchard said in a statement posted on Twitter, a day after reaching a settlement with the organization that runs the US Open.

“The jury found the USTA negligent and liable for the accident. After the verdict, the USTA and I came to a settlement agreement.”Financial terms of the settlement reached on Friday — one day after the jury found the USTA bore 75 percent of the responsibility for Bouchards fall — were not disclosed.

Bouchard, 23, had sought unspecified damages, arguing the USTA was at fault for unsafe conditions in a training room in the locker room area at the US Open, where Bouchard slipped and fell on a wet floor after a late night doubles match.She suffered a concussion and withdrew from the tournament as well as competitions in China and Japan later that year.