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Published 10:35 9 May 2017 BST
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It just goes to show how some added tension, weight and mental drive can inspire a player's performance. Bouchard was been hell-bent on defeating Sharapova and backing up her comments that Sharapova shouldn’t be allowed to play the game. She let her racket do the talking last night.
"I was inspired because I had a lot of players coming up to me privately, wishing me good luck," said the Canadian.
"They were players I don't normally speak to and I got a lot of texts from people in the tennis world that were just rooting for me. I wanted to do it for myself, but also for all these people."
"Some girls in the locker room were coming up to me and really wishing me good luck which doesn't normally happen," added the world number 60.
"It showed me that most people have my opinion and they were just maybe scared to speak out."
Bouchard has struggled to live up to the standards she set during a breakthrough season in 2014, in which she reached semi-finals at the Australian Open and French Opens before finishing runner-up to Petra Kvitova at Wimbledon.
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