Bouchard accepts ticket to Rio

MONTREAL— After weighing the positives and negatives, Eugenie Bouchard confirmed she’ll compete in Rio Olympics, putting to rest doubts about the participation of Canada’s top-ranked women’s tennis player. Bouchard, in Montreal for the Rogers Cup, was named to the Olympic team by Tennis Canada, but said she would wait until “the last minute” to decide whether she would accept the spot amid concerns about the Zika virus and safety in Rio — which led to top Canadian male Milos Raonic and other stars pulling out. “To have a problem like this kind of dampening the excitement . . . really sucks,” she said recently. Bouchard will join Gabriela Dabrowski, Vasek Pospisil and Daniel Nestor in Rio next month.