Katie Boulter

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Katie Charlotte de Minaur (née Boulter) (born 1 August 1996) is a British professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 23, achieved on 4 November 2024, and a best doubles ranking of No. 225, reached on 8 June 2026. Boulter has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour. She has also won one WTA 125 singles title, as well as seven singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She is a former British women’s No. 1.

This profile of Katie Boulter covers Early Life and Family Background, 2008–2013: Steady rise, 2014: Doubles success, first pro singles title, 2018: WTA Tour quarterfinal and 2019: Australian Open first win.

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

Early Life and Family Background of Katie Boulter

Boulter started playing tennis aged 5, and went on to represent Great Britain three years later, aged 8. 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."

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.

2008–2013: Steady rise of Katie Boulter

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

Boulter claimed her first senior doubles title at a $10k event in Sharm El Sheikh in November 2013.

2014: Doubles success, first pro 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. 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. A month later, Boulter was given a wildcard for Wimbledon qualifying, losing in the first round to Italian Alberta Brianti in a three-set match which lasted two-and-a-half hours.

2018: WTA Tour quarterfinal

Boulter won her first $25k singles title at the event in Óbidos, Portugal in April. In May, she won a further singles title at the $60k event in Fukuoka, Japan. She received a wildcard for the Nottingham Open, going on to reach her first WTA Tour quarterfinal with a run which included a win over former US Open champion Samantha Stosur. In July, Boulter received a wildcard into the $100k grass-court event in Southsea, England, where she reached the final and fell to Kirsten Flipkens.

She then received a wildcard into the Wimbledon main draw, where she won her first-round match over Verónica Cepede Royg. She lost in the second round to Naomi Osaka in straight sets.

2019: Australian Open first win

Boulter began the 2019 season in Hobart, Tasmania where she did not qualify, losing to Greet Minnen in three sets. Her next tournament was the Australian Open. She defeated Ekaterina Makarova, in three sets, with the first instance in the Australian Open of a third-set tiebreak, winning the tiebreak 10–6. But her run ended in the second round with a straight-sets defeat by Aryna Sabalenka.

Her next tournament was the St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy where she entered the main draw as a lucky loser and was defeated by Ekaterina Alexandrova in three sets. At the Mexican Open, she defeated Conny Perrin in the first round, before retiring with an injury during her next match against fifth seed Sofia Kenin.

In April, Boulter suffered a spinal stress fracture while playing for Great Britain in the Fed Cup.

2021: Another Wimbledon win

At the 2021 Australian Open, she suffered a first-round loss against Daria Kasatkina. At Wimbledon, she beat qualifier Danielle Lao, before losing to second seed Aryna Sabalenka, in three sets, in the second round. She qualified for the main draw at the 2021 US Open, but lost in the first round to Liudmila Samsonova.

2022: First top-10 wins and major third round

Having won an ITF tournament in February, Boulter had to retire from the WTA Tour event in Lyon in March due to a leg injury.

Boulter missed the clay-court season, but returned at the Nottingham Open in June where she came through qualifying to defeat Tatjana Maria in the first round, before losing to Ajla Tomljanović. Granted a wildcard for the Birmingham Classic, she defeated Alison Riske (her first win against a top-40 ranked player) and Caroline Garcia, before losing to Simona Halep. At Eastbourne, she was also handed a wildcard and defeated fourth seed and world No. 7, Karolina Plíšková, for her first top-10 win. She lost her last 16 match against Petra Kvitová in three sets.

At Wimbledon, Boulter again upset Plíšková in three sets to advance to the third round of a major for the first time in her career. In round three, Boulter lost to Harmony Tan, in straight sets.

2023: British No. 1, first WTA Tour title, top 50

Boulter became the British player No. 1 on 12 June 2023, following a semifinal showing at the Surbiton Trophy. She reached the quarterfinals at the Nottingham Open as one of four British players for a historic first at a WTA Tour event. She went one step further to reach her first WTA Tour semifinal with a win over compatriot Harriet Dart. She defeated another Briton, Heather Watson, to set up an all-British final with Jodie Burrage, the first since 1977. Boulter won the final in straight sets to claim her first WTA Tour title. As a result, she returned to the top 100 in the rankings at No. 77 on 19 June 2023.

She received a special exempt entry into the next UK tournament in Birmingham, but lost in the first round to Zhu Lin in straight sets.

At Wimbledon, she defeated Australian Daria Saville in the first round and Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova in the second, before losing to Elena Rybakina in an under-one-hour match. With Alex de Minaur in mixed doubles, she also went out in the second round.

Boulter came through two rounds of qualifying to gain a place in the main draw of the Canadian Open in Montreal. She won her first-round match against Rebecca Marino, but lost in round two to Coco Gauff. This result improved Boulter's singles ranking to a career-high ranking of No. 60, on 14 August 2023.

Source: adapted from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Boulter), text available under CC BY-SA 4.0.