--- title: Australian Open: Reporter Slammed for Asking Eugenie Bouchard to Twirl description: The Canadian tennis star was taken aback by presenter Ian Cohen's request to "do a twirl" and people have reacted with outrage. canonical: https://time.com/3677729/eugenie-bouchard-ian-cohen-twirl-australian-open/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-22T03:30:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T03:46:15.450Z article:section: Sports og:title: Tennis Star Eugenie Bouchard Asked to 'Twirl' by a Male Presenter og:description: *Cringe* og:url: https://time.com/3677729/eugenie-bouchard-ian-cohen-twirl-australian-open/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tennis Star Eugenie Bouchard Asked to 'Twirl' by a Male Presenter twitter:description: *Cringe* twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Women's World Tennis No. 7 Got Asked to do a 'Twirl' By a Male Presenter by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Jan 22, 2015 3:30 AM UTC by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Jan 22, 2015 3:30 AM UTC A reporter at the Australian Open is drawing a lot of flak for [asking](http://www.news.com.au/sport/tennis/eugenie-bouchard-surprised-by-questioning/story-fndkzym4-1227192990123) women’s world tennis no. 7 Eugenie Bouchard to “twirl” in a post-match interview on Wednesday, a request that embarrassed the young star and sparked a backlash on social media. Channel 7 presenter Ian Cohen asked the 20-year-year Canadian to do a “twirl, like a pirouette,” and show off her pink outfit to the Melbourne crowd. Bouchard complied, albeit a little awkwardly. “It was very unexpected,” she said in her post-match press conference. “I don’t know, an old guy asking you to twirl. It was funny.” Others didn’t find it so amusing, though. > [](https://twitter.com/paulverhoeven/status/558088668158910466) > [](https://twitter.com/masonkim/status/558093432347181056) > [](https://twitter.com/Triskerslake/status/558093460142825473) Bouchard, a Montreal native, is tipped as one of the rising stars of the sport after reaching the Wimbledon final last year, as well as the Australian and French Open semifinals. She defeated Kiki Bertens 6-0, 6-3 in less than an hour in Wednesday’s second-round encounter at Melbourne Park. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3677729/eugenie-bouchard-ian-cohen-twirl-australian-open/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3677729/eugenie-bouchard-ian-cohen-twirl-australian-open/"},"headline":"The Women's World Tennis No. 7 Got Asked to do a 'Twirl' By a Male Presenter","datePublished":"2015-01-22T03:30:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:46:15.450Z","description":"What was he thinking?","url":"https://time.com/3677729/eugenie-bouchard-ian-cohen-twirl-australian-open/","keywords":["tennis"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/tennis/","name":"tennis"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3677729/eugenie-bouchard-ian-cohen-twirl-australian-open/","name":"The Women's World Tennis No. 7 Got Asked to do a 'Twirl' By a Male Presenter"}}]}] ```