Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Date of Birth: February 25, 1994
Ethnicity: French-Canadian, some Irish
Eugenie Bouchard is a Canadian professional tennis player. She is the daughter of mother Julie Leclair and father Michel Bouchard. She has a fraternal twin sister, Beatrice, who is six minutes older. Eugenie speaks both French and English.
Eugenie’s paternal grandparents are Gilles Bouchard (the son of Gerard Bouchard and Rollande Monte) and Huguette Martin (the daughter of Juvenal Martin and Georgette Martineau).
Eugenie’s maternal grandparents are Dorval Leclair (the son of Lorenzo Leclair and Gertrude Levesque) and Coleen-Jean-Margaret Murphy (the daughter of Daniel Murphy and Jeanne-d’Arc Nault). Daniel was of Irish descent, the son of William Murphy and Margaret Fleming. Eugenie’s matrilineal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary-Margaret Lynn, was also Irish, born in Finvoy, Antrim.
Source: Genealogy of Eugenie Bouchard – http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca
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