More than five weeks after she won what would be her final match at the United States Open, Eugenie Bouchard filed a lawsuit against the United States Tennis Association and the U.S.T.A. National Tennis Center for damages related to the head injury she sustained after falling on a tile floor in a physical therapy room on Sept. 4.
In the suit, which was filed Wednesday in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Bouchard said that the fall was the result of “a slippery, foreign and dangerous substance on the floor” that had been caused by the tournament and that the tournament had failed to give her any warning about the condition.