
Canadian teenager Eugenie Bouchard is amassing quite a collection of stuffed animals at the Australian Open, all gifts from her own personal cheering section nicknamed the ''Genie Army.'' With nearly every victory this week at Melbourne Park has come a different Australian animal - a kangaroo, koala and kookaburra. After her biggest win of all - defeating No. 14-seeded Ana Ivanovic 5-7, 7-5, 6-2 to reach her first Grand Slam semifinal on Tuesday - one of her admirers from the Genie Army tossed a fuzzy wombat to the court. Bouchard's run through the draw has certainly been one of the biggest surprises of the tournament, but it's also not entirely unexpected. Of the 13 teenagers in the main draw at Melbourne Park, none is perhaps as highly touted as the 19-year-old native of Montreal.
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