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Eugenie Bouchard Honors Super Bowl Twitter Bet, Meets Date For Nets Game

Caption:MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 20: Eugenie Bouchard of Canada plays a forehand in her second round match against Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland during day three of the 2016 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 20, 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)

Eugenie Bouchard has kept her promise.

Eugenie Bouchard Attends Nets Game For Date With Super Bowl bet Twitter Fan

The Canadian tennis star, who will be 23 on Feb. 25, honored her promise to go on a date with a fan she lost a bet with on Twitter regarding the outcome of Super Bowl LI by attending a Brooklyn Nets game with the lucky boy on Wednesday night.

After the Atlanta Falcons led 21-3 at halftime, Bouchard predicted in a tweet that they would win the Super Bowl. However, the fan, 20-year-old University of Missouri student John Goehrke, was confident the New England Patriots would be able to make a comeback victory, and they did. Goehrke wagered a date as part of the bet that his team would win, and Bouchard accepted.

The tennis player tweeted a photo of herself and her blind date before Wednesday’s game, with the caption:

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“Just met my ‘Super Bowl Twitter Date’ John. On our way to the @BrooklynNets game!” she wrote.

Bouchard, a Montreal native, had secured prime courtside seats for the date at the Barclays Center in New York, where the Nets lost to the Milwaukee Bucks 129-125.

The date appeared to have gone pretty well, as Bouchard told YES Network the night wasn’t awkward, and that she was impressed how big a sports fan Goehrke is.

“He’s normal,” she said. “We’ve gotten to know each other. It’s great.”

Bouchard added that Goehrke was a “gentleman” who had gotten her a gift and that there would be a second date “for sure.”

She jokingly tweeted before the Grammys on Sunday that she wasn’t making any wagers about that, saying: “Not making any bets tonight!” and adding a laughing emoji.

As for Goehrke, clearly he took some advice from hockey great Wayne Gretzky: “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”

Caption:MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – JANUARY 20: Eugenie Bouchard of Canada plays a forehand in her second round match against Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland during day three of the 2016 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 20, 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)

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