Katie Boulter

Katie Boulter

Full name Katie Boulter
Country (sports)  United Kingdom
Born (1996-08-01) 1 August 1996
Leicester, United Kingdom
Prize money $26,169
Singles
Career record 68–46
Career titles 2 ITF
Highest ranking 340 (9 February 2015)
Current ranking 760 (2 May 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon Q1 (2014)
Australian Open Junior 3R (2014)
French Open Junior 2R (2014)
Wimbledon Junior 3R (2014)
US Open Junior 3R (2013)
Doubles
Career record 35–21
Career titles 4 ITF
Highest ranking 473 (24 November 2014)
Current ranking
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon Q2 (2014)
Australian Open Junior F (2014)
French Open Junior 1R (2013, 2014)
Wimbledon Junior QF (2014)
US Open Junior 1R (2013, 2014)
Last updated on: 2 May 2016.

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

Boulter, who hails from Woodhouse Eaves,[1][2] has won two singles and four doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 9 February 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 340. On 24 November 2014, she peaked at world number 473 in the doubles rankings.

Boulter was ranked the number ten junior tennis player in the world in March 2014.[3] She is based at the Lawn Tennis Association's National Tennis Centre in Roehampton and is coached by Jeremy Bates and Nigel Sears.[4]

Career

Boulter started playing tennis aged 5[4] and went on to represent Great Britain three years later, aged 8.[4] Following in the path of Anna Kournikova, Boulter showed young promise in 2008 when she won the Lemon Bowl in Rome, aged 11.[5] She went on in 2011, aged 14, to become a finalist in the Junior Orange Bowl Tennis Championships in Coral Gables, Florida.[6] Past finalists have included Andy Murray and Caroline Wozniacki. She was awarded the Aegon Junior Player Award that month.[7]

Boulter claimed her first senior doubles title at a $10,000 Sharm el-Sheikh event in November 2013.[8] 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.[9][10][11]

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.[12] 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.[13]

ITF finals (6–6)

Singles (2–3)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (2–3)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. 21 April 2014 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Hard Republic of Ireland Amy Bowtell 7–6(7–5), 0–6, 6–7(6–8)
Runner-up 2. 28 April 2014 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Hard Serbia Nina Stojanović 6–3, 4–6, 3–6
Winner 1. 5 May 2014 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Hard United Kingdom Eden Silva 4–6, 6–4, 7–5
Runner-up 3. 27 October 2014 Phuket, Thailand Hard (i) France Irina Ramialison 3–6, 0–6
Winner 2. 18 April 2016 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Hard Russia Anastasia Pribylova 4–6, 6–3, 7–5

Doubles (4–3)

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)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 18 November 2013 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Hard Belgium Justine De Sutter Russia Natela Dzalamidze
Ukraine Yuliya Hnateyko
6–4, 7–6(8–6)
Runner-up 1. 17 February 2014 Nonthaburi, Thailand Hard China Xun Fangying China Han Xinyun
China Zhang Kailin
3–6, 0–6
Winner 2. 28 April 2014 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Hard Serbia Nina Stojanović China Dong Xiaorong
Austria Pia König
6–4, 6–2
Winner 3. 5 May 2014 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Hard Serbia Nina Stojanović Kazakhstan Ekaterina Klyueva
Russia Sofia Smagina
6–2, 6–3
Winner 4. 14 July 2014 Imola, Italy Carpet United Kingdom Katy Dunne Italy Anna Remondina
Switzerland Lisa Sabino
7–6(10–8), 6–3
Runner-up 2. 4 August 2014 Nottingham, United Kingdom Hard United Kingdom Freya Christie Australia Alison Bai
Japan Mari Tanaka
4–6, 3–6
Runner-up 3. 11 April 2016 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Hard Ukraine Oleksandra Korashvili Austria Melanie Klaffner
Germany Julia Wachaczyk
4–6, 6–2, [11–13]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' Doubles

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 2014 Australian Open Hard Serbia Ivana Jorović Ukraine Anhelina Kalinina
Russia Elizaveta Kulichkova
4–6, 2–6

References

  1. "Woodhouse Eaves tennis player Katie Boulter in action at Loughborough University". Leicester Mercury. 5 November 2013. 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. 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.
  4. 1 2 3 "Grantees". Tennis First. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  5. "From Woodhouse to Wimbledon" (PDF). Roundabout. February 2009. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  6. "Tennis: Loughborough's Katie Boulter follows in path of the stars". Leicester Mercury. 24 December 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  7. "AEGON Junior Player of the Month". Lawn Tennis Association. December 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  8. Rush, Richard (1 December 2013). "Boulter is top girl in the UK". Loughborough Echo. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  9. "Katie Boulter eyes Grand Slam crown after Australian Open loss". BBC Sport. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  10. Sharpe, James (24 January 2014). "Tennis: Katie Boulter misses out in Australian Open doubles final". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  11. Warrington, Pete (1 February 2014). "Tennis ace reflects on reaching the junior doubles final at the Australian Open". Loughborough Echo. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  12. Rush, Richard (25 May 2014). "Boulter serves up hat-trick of titles". Loughborough Echo. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  13. "Tennis: Wimbledon blow for Boulter". Leicester Mercury. 18 June 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2014.

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