Katie Boulter

Katie Boulter (born 1 August 1996 in Leicester) is a British tennis player.

Katie Boulter

Boulter at the 2018 Fuzion 100 Surbiton Trophy
Country (sports)	United Kingdom
Born	(1996-08-01) 1 August 1996 Leicester, England
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Plays	Right handed (two handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 477,836
Singles
Career record	165–109 (60.2%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 82 (18 February 2019)
Current ranking	No. 374 (16 March 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2019)
French Open	Q1 (2018)
Wimbledon	2R (2018)
US Open	Q3 (2017)
Doubles
Career record	39–30 (56.5%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 431 (31 December 2018)
Current ranking	No. 449 (3 April 2019)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2017, 2018)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2018)
Team competitions
Hopman Cup	RR (2019)
Last updated on: 2 January 2019.

Boulter, who hails from Woodhouse Eaves,[1][2] has won five singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 18 February 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 82. On 31 December 2018, she peaked at No. 431 in the doubles rankings.[3]

Boulter was ranked the No. 10 junior tennis player in the world in March 2014.[4] She is based at the Lawn Tennis Association's National Tennis Centre in Roehampton and is coached by Jeremy Bates, Nigel Sears and Mark Taylor.[5]

Early and personal life

Boulter's mother played tennis at county level, and represented Great Britain a few times. Boulter herself started playing tennis aged 5,[5] and went on to represent Great Britain three years later, aged 8.[5] She has said that when she was younger, beating her older brother was a motivating factor. "We used to practise together at this local court down the road from our house. It was the only thing I could eventually beat him in, so that felt great."[6]

Boulter played the piano before her tennis career began to take precedence. She also has an interest in fashion and made an appearance in Vogue magazine in 2018.[7]

Career

2008 – 2013: Steady Rise

Following in the path of Anna Kournikova, Boulter showed young promise in 2008 when she won the Lemon Bowl in Rome, aged 11.[8] She went on in 2011, aged 14, to become a finalist in the Junior Orange Bowl Tennis Championships in Coral Gables, Florida.[9] Past finalists have included Andy Murray and Caroline Wozniacki. She was awarded the Aegon Junior Player Award that month.[10]

Boulter claimed her first senior doubles title at a $10,000 event in Sharm el-Sheikh in November 2013.[11]

2014: Doubles success, First senior singles title

In January 2014, Boulter went on to have further doubles success and was a finalist at the Australian Open girls' doubles event with Ivana Jorović.[12][13][14] In May 2014, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Boulter won her first senior singles title over fellow Briton Eden Silva. She also won the doubles title at the same event partnering Nina Stojanović, to whom she had lost a previous final in singles.[15] A month later, Boulter was given a wild card for Wimbledon qualifying, losing in the first round to Italian Alberta Brianti in a three-set match which lasted two-and-a-half hours.[16]

2018: First second-round appearance in a major

2018 became her most successful tennis year. She won her first $25,000 singles title at the event in Óbidos in April. In May, Boulter then won a further singles title at the $60,000 event in Fukuoka, Japan. Despite falling in the first round of qualifying for the French Open[17], Boulter carried her good form into the grass court season, She received a wild card for a WTA tournament in Nottingham[18] and reached her first WTA quarterfinal there. In July 2018 she received a wildcard to the $100,000 grass court tournament in Southsea, United Kingdom[19] where she fell to Kirsten Flipkens in the final, then received a wildcard into the Wimbledon main draw, where she won her first round match over Veronica Cepede Royg.[20] She lost to Naomi Osaka in the second round in straight sets.

2019: Second second-round appearance in a major

Boulter began the 2019 season in the Hobart International in Tasmania, Australia where she did not qualify, losing to Greet Minnen in three sets. Her next tournament was the Australian Open. Her first match was against Ekaterina Makarova who she defeated in three sets with the first instance in the Australian Open of a third-set tiebreak, winning the tiebreak 10–6. However, her run ended in the second round with a straight-set defeat by Aryna Sabalenka. Her next tournament was the St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy during which she defeated Bernarda Pera, Katarina Zavatska and Ysaline Bonaventure in the qualifiers. She then lost to Ekaterina Alexandrova in three sets. At the Mexican Open, she defeated Conny Perrin in straight-sets before retiring to 5th seed Sofia Kenin. In the Miami Open, entering as 6th qualifying seed, she lost to Marie Bouzková in straight-sets.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 12 (5 titles, 7 runner–ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000/$80,000 tournaments $50,000/$60,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (3–3) Clay (0–0) Grass (0–2) Carpet (2–2)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 2014	ITF Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Amy Bowtell	7–6^(7–5), 0–6, 6–7^(6–8)
Loss	0–2	May 2014	ITF Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Nina Stojanović	6–3, 4–6, 3–6
Win	1–2	May 2014	ITF Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Eden Silva	4–6, 6–4, 7–5
Loss	1–3	Nov 2014	ITF Phuket, Thailand	15,000	Hard (i)	Irina Ramialison	3–6, 0–6
Win	2–3	Apr 2016	ITF Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Anastasia Pribylova	4–6, 6–3, 7–5
Loss	2–4	Mar 2017	ITF Mildura, Australia	25,000	Grass	Viktória Kužmová	2–6, 4–6
Win	3–4	Apr 2017	ITF İstanbul, Turkey	15,000	Hard (i)	Ayla Aksu	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Loss	3–5	May 2017	ITF Kurume, Japan	60,000	Carpet	Laura Robson	3–6, 4–6
Loss	3–6	Oct 2017	ITF Óbidos, Portugal	25,000	Carpet	Katie Swan	0–5 ret.
Win	4–6	Apr 2018	ITF Óbidos, Portugal	25,000	Carpet	Urszula Radwańska	4–6, 6–3, 6–3
Win	5–6	May 2018	ITF Fukuoka, Japan	60,000	Carpet (i)	Ksenia Lykina	5–7, 6–4, 6–2
Loss	5–7	Jul 2018	ITF Southsea, United Kingdom	100,000+H	Grass	Kirsten Flipkens	4–6, 7–5, 3–6

Doubles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runner–ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (3–3) Clay (0–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (1–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Nov 2013	ITF Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt	Hard	Justine De Sutter	Natela Dzalamidze Yuliya Hnateyko	6–4, 7–6^(8–6)
Loss	1–1	Feb 2014	ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand	Hard	Xun Fangying	Han Xinyun Zhang Kailin	3–6, 0–6
Win	2–1	May 2014	ITF Sharm el-Sheikh	Hard	Nina Stojanović	Dong Xiaorong Pia König	6–4, 6–2
Win	3–1	May 2014	ITF Sharm el-Sheikh	Hard	Nina Stojanović	Ekaterina Klyueva Sofia Smagina	6–2, 6–3
Win	4–1	Jul 2014	ITF Imola, Italy	Carpet	Katy Dunne	Anna Remondina Lisa Sabino	7–6^(10–8), 6–3
Loss	4–2	Aug 2014	ITF Nottingham, United Kingdom	Hard	Freya Christie	Alison Bai Mari Tanaka	4–6, 3–6
Loss	4–3	Apr 2016	ITF Sharm el-Sheikh	Hard	Oleksandra Korashvili	Melanie Klaffner Julia Wachaczyk	4–6, 6–2, [11–13]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' Doubles: 1 (1 runner–up)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2014	Australian Open	Hard	Ivana Jorović	Anhelina Kalinina Elizaveta Kulichkova	4–6, 2–6

References

1. "Woodhouse Eaves tennis player Katie Boulter in action at Loughborough University". Leicester Mercury. 5 November 2013. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
2. Sharpe, James (23 January 2014). "Tennis: Loughborough's Katie Boulter reaches Australian Open final". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
3. "Katie Boulter ranking and prize money". WTA.
4. Bloom, Ben (1 May 2014). "Rising Stars: Young British tennis players have been criticised for being soft and lazy – not Katie Boulter". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
5. "Grantees". Tennis First. Archived from the original on 26 May 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
6. "Katie Boulter on cracking the top 100 & facing Serena Williams". BBC Sport. 28 December 2018.
7. "Injury, Fame, Competitors – Nothing is Getting in the Way of Katie Boulter's Wimbledon Swing". Vogue. 26 June 2018.
8. "From Woodhouse to Wimbledon" (PDF). Roundabout. February 2009. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
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10. "AEGON Junior Player of the Month". Lawn Tennis Association. December 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
11. Rush, Richard (1 December 2013). "Boulter is top girl in the UK". Loughborough Echo. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
12. "Katie Boulter eyes Grand Slam crown after Australian Open loss". BBC Sport. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
13. Sharpe, James (24 January 2014). "Tennis: Katie Boulter misses out in Australian Open doubles final". Leicester Mercury. Archived from the original on 26 May 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
14. Warrington, Pete (1 February 2014). "Tennis ace reflects on reaching the junior doubles final at the Australian Open". Loughborough Echo. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
15. Rush, Richard (25 May 2014). "Boulter serves up hat-trick of titles". Loughborough Echo. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
16. "Tennis: Wimbledon blow for Boulter". Leicester Mercury. 18 June 2014. Archived from the original on 19 June 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
17. https://fft-rg-site.cdn.prismic.io/fft-rg-site%2F298096cf-5e88-4fc3-8fd8-9bc4c964498f_women_s_qualifying_20180525.pdf
18. https://www.lta.org.uk/major-tennis-events/british-major-events/nature-valley-open/news-and-media/2018/nature-valley-open-boulter-and-taylor-receive-nottingham-wild-cards/
19. https://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/tournaments/women's-tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100042613
20. http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/draws/2018_LS_draw.pdf

External links

• Katie Boulter at the Women's Tennis Association
• Katie Boulter at the International Tennis Federation
• Katie Boulter at the Lawn Tennis Association