Sharapova takes veiled swipe at 'insufferable' Bouchard

Eugenie Bouchard took to social media to celebrate her grudge match victory over Maria Sharapova.

Now Sharapova has done the same to hit back.

The Russian hasn't addressed Bouchard's criticism of her directly, but appeared to do so with a sly dig on Twitter.

Sharapova has a book coming out in September called 'Unstoppable: My Life So Far'.

She's been tweeting pictures of the cover in recent weeks and has it 'pinned' to the top of her Twitter page.

Image: Twitter

One day after their match in Madrid, 'The Drive Volley' Twitter account tweeted a Photoshopped version of Sharapova's book mocking Bouchard.

The 'spoof' cover has a picture of Bouchard with the title 'Insufferable: My Life So Far' with a subtitle 'I wish I was Maria Sharapova'.

The tweet is pretty hurtful to Bouchard but the real action came when Sharapova stumbled across it.

A look at Sharapova's 'likes' shows she rather enjoyed it.

Image: Twitter

Rather than comment on it or retweet to her followers, she gave it a like, meaning not many Twitter users would actually see it unless they click on the 'likes' section of her page.

The result? The very definition of a 'veiled swipe'.

Sharapova and Bouchard. Image: Getty

Bouchard's win in Madrid was their first meeting since she called Sharapova a cheater and said she should have been banned for life from the sport after testing positive for meldonium.

"I definitely had some extra motivation going into today," Bouchard said.

"I was actually quite inspired before the match because I had a lot of players coming up to me privately wishing me good luck, players I don't normally speak to, getting a lot of texts from people in the tennis world that were just rooting for me.

"So I wanted to do it for myself, but also all these people. I really felt support.

"It showed me that most people have my opinion, and they were just maybe scared to speak out."

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Bouchard previously said she's lost all respect for Sharapova, and she certainly showed it late in the first set of their match when she threw tennis etiquette out the window and failed to apologise for hitting a net cord winner (which you can see at the top of the page).

with AAP