Eugenie Bouchard: Ugly fallout of famous date, why she doesn't post bikini pics

Eugenie Bouchard has detailed the ugly consequences of her iconic Twitter date and revealed why she avoids posting bikini photos.

Eugenie Bouchard made John Goehrke’s dreams come true by agreeing to a date with him but what could have been the greatest love story of our time hasn’t been all warm and fuzzy.

Goehrke scored a romantic evening with the Canadian tennis star via a Twitter bet when she said Atlanta would win the 2017 Super Bowl, only for the New England Patriots to stage a stunning comeback from 25 points down to steal victory.

The pair went to an NBA game in New York together and have remained on good terms, meeting up occasionally since despite living in different parts of America. But their relationship has only complicated matters when it comes to their respective love lives.

A movie is being made about Bouchard and Goehrke’s meet-cute and in an interview with tennis.com the 2014 Wimbledon finalist said even though they were still “good friends”, things haven’t exactly been smooth sailing.

“That infamous moment in my life when I tweeted when I shouldn’t have just turned into this whole thing,” Bouchard said.

“I’m in touch with him casually. Sometimes he plays hard to get and I’m like, ‘Bro, we’re friends, text me back, it’s OK’.

“We’ve hung out a bunch of times. I think he has a girlfriend now though, maybe that’s why he doesn’t text me back.

“All his girlfriends literally hate me. We’ve talked about it so much. Every girl that he ever hangs out with is like, ‘Why would you want to hang out with me when you hung out with Genie?’

“I’m ruining his dating life. It’s so sad.

“We hang out once a year. I’m not a threat, relax.”

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Bouchard revealed her friendship with Goehrke has also hurt her quest for love because of all the publicity it’s generated.

“It caused problems at the time I had a boyfriend, it caused problems as well,” she said. “Honestly, we were a disaster for each other’s dating lives, it was so bad.

“People see articles and you get jealous and you wonder, ‘Oh my god, is that real? Is it not? Is it still thing? Is it not?’

“I could see how girls would be jealous, and guys in my life as well.

“It was tough. We were problematic for each other.”

BOUCHARD: WHY I DON’T POST ‘BIKINI, BUTT’ PICS

Boasting 2.1 million Instagram followers, Bouchard is a social media sensation as well as a tennis player but is fully aware her online popularity comes with some dark consequences.

The constant trolling has made her think twice about what she posts, revealing she tries to avoid uploading pictures showing lots of skin these days.

Her feed is littered with past bikini photos but at 26, Bouchard is now taking a different approach.

“I really try to refrain from posting bikini pictures. I really do,” Bouchard told tennis.com. “I’m trying my best.”

Asked about posing for Sports Illustrated, Bouchard added: “Apparently if you post that it means you don’t play tennis or something.

“It’s influenced a little bit how I act. Maybe I’m just getting more mature and I’m like, ‘Look, I’m not going to post butt pictures every day’.”

Bouchard has experienced all the peaks and troughs of documenting her life on Instagram but tries not to listen to the naysayers anymore.

“I’ve been through the whole spectrum of people loving you. When everything’s going great, people love you. When everything’s going bad, people hate you,” she said.

“I’ve been through that wave so many times. It just sucks. People think social media is an exact representation of your day when it’s not.

“I can go running for eight hours then go to dinner and post a selfie and people think I just went to dinner. People need to realise it’s only what people choose to show, that’s what’s out there.

“I went through the whole spectrum of wanting to post, not wanting to post, being scared, being like, ‘Eff all of you guys, I’m gonna still live my life’.

“I just don’t even care anymore, it’s exhausting.

“I don’t value the opinions of people out there who are just judging what I put out there.”