Eugenie Bouchard ends feud with her sister as twins celebrate their birthday together

Eugenie Bouchard has celebrated her birthday with her twin sister Beatrice for the first time in eight years, as the pair seemingly buried the hatchet to mark their 29th birthdays.

The Canadian tennis star posed for photos with sister Beatrice and took to Instagram to reveal it was the first time since they turned 21 that they spent the special day together.

Eugenie and Beatrice have shared a fractured relationship and the the tennis player has previously said that she was ‘almost a stranger’ to her after they grew apart at the age of 10 following their parents’ divorce.

Beatrice lived with their father Michael while Eugenie remained with her mother, Julie. 

‘It’s very funny. I know someone in the grocery store better than my twin sister,’ she said in an interview two years ago.

‘We are definitely not a simple, happy, perfect family. Even anything but that. Our parents got divorced, they weren’t happy with each other.

‘Genie was with my mother for most of her life from then on. Myself, our siblings Charlotte and William with my father. So we grew up separately.’

She added that since they were separated at the age of 10, she sees Beatrice roughly twice a year. 

‘The situation caused enormous tension,’ she said.

‘Especially between me, Charlotte, Will and my mother, as well as between Genie and our father. It’s still like this today, not at all perfect. I’ve only seen her twice a year since we were 10 years old.

‘Therefore, people in the supermarket are closer to her than her own twin sister. It’s crazy. She is almost a stranger to me.’

But the pair seemed to be in a far better place when they posed together in swimwear and straw hats to mark their 29th birthdays. 

Bouchard is currently ranked 317 in the world and suffered a first round defeat at this year’s Australian Open.