Former world No. 5 Eugenie Bouchard said Maria Sharapova tried to intimidate her by hitting the ball hard during the warm up, and even though Bouchard said she wasn’t intimidated, she did find it as annoying. Bouchard and Sharapova played five times and the Russian won four of those five meetings. Bouchard, the 2014 Wimbledon runner-up, was a guest on the Pardon My Take podcast, where she told some of her experiences from the tour. “Have you ever played a warm-up with anyone and they were just being a d—?”, asked one of the podcast hosts, as quoted on …
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