Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard, ranked 45th in the WTA rankings after a third-round run at the Australian Open, has a date with a stranger after losing a Super Bowl bet.
The 22-year-old Montreal-born blonde on Sunday learned the hard way never to bet against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, who rallied from a 25-point deficit to defeat Atlanta 34-28 in overtime to claim the NFL crown.
With the Falcons comfortably ahead 21-0 after running back an intercepted Brady pass for a touchdown, Bouchard sent Twitter messages predicting victory.
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“I knew Atlanta would win btw,” she tweeted, later adding: “Just predicted the future.”
That prompted TW1 — a Twitter identity sporting a photograph of a man in a Cleveland Cavaliers NBA jersey — to tweet Bouchard with a longshot bid of his own.
“If patriots win we go on a date?” came the pitch.
“Sure,” Bouchard replied, although she shot down a second such suitor with merely: “C’mon...”
As the Patriots made their successful, second-half comeback, Bouchard was asked by another tweeter: “Are you getting nervous?!? Lol.”
“Umm...kinda...,” she replied, adding later: “So...where do you live?”
When the Patriots won the game, Bouchard could only manage letters: “Omfg.”
“Lesson learned,” Bouchard tweeted. “Never bet against Tom Brady.”
On Monday, Bouchard said she would honor the bet.
“Lol it made a Twitter moment,” she tweeted. “And I will do it, I stay true to my word.”
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