{"id":208201,"date":"2025-10-12T19:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208201\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T19:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T19:57:08","slug":"tennis-wta-osaka-2025-katie-boulter-makes-her-osaka-debut-and-faces-linda-noskova-in-her-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208201\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis | WTA Osaka 2025 | Katie Boulter makes her Osaka debut and faces Linda Noskova in her opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBy Ros Satar<\/p>\n<p>Katie Boulter v Linda Noskova [2]<br \/>\nH2H: First Meeting<\/p>\n<p>OSAKA, JAPAN \u2013 Katie Boulter has a tough opener on her Osaka debut taking on second seed Linda Noskova in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Katie Boulter v Linda Noskova [2] | H2H &amp; Match Fundamentals<\/p>\n<p>Katie Boulter v Linda Noskova [2]<br \/>\nH2H: First Meeting<\/p>\n<p>WTA Osaka<br \/>\nJapan<\/p>\n<p>Hard (O)<br \/>\nPrize Money: $2,975<\/p>\n<p>Fourth on Centre Court, not before 4pm (8am BST)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/watch-sky-sports-online\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky\/Now TV<\/a> &lt;- Subscription Required<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/britwatchsports.com\/katie-boulter-gbr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Katie Boulter<\/a> has yet to get back-to-back wins in the Asian swing, and faces a tough start in the first round, where she faces second seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/wplayer.cgi?p=LindaNoskova\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Linda Noskova<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tale of the Tape \u2013 Key Stats (Hard \u2013 2025)<\/p>\n<p>H2H:<br \/>\nKatie Boulter (WR 61)<br \/>\nLinda Noskova (WR 17)<\/p>\n<p>Tournament Previous Best<br \/>\nDebut<br \/>\nDebut<\/p>\n<p>1st Serve Return Points Won %<br \/>\n32.6<br \/>\n31.1<\/p>\n<p>Return Points Won %<br \/>\n41.1<br \/>\n41.1<\/p>\n<p>Break Point Conversion %<br \/>\n50.0<br \/>\n51.4<\/p>\n<p>Break Points Saved %<br \/>\n51.0<br \/>\n52.2<\/p>\n<p>Overall Service Points Won %<br \/>\n54.2<br \/>\n62.4<\/p>\n<p>Although there is a wide gap in their rankings, Boulter\u2019s stats on hard courts are close to Noskova until they get to overall service points won.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.connectedclubs.co.uk\/?wpam_id=24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-56592 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Connected-Clubs-Graphic.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Playing Styles &amp; Prediction<\/p>\n<p>The Asian swing has not been a particularly happy hunting ground for Katie Boulter thus far with just one win in three tournaments.\u00a0Noskova, on the other hand, lost the Beijing final to a resurgent Amanda Anisimova before picking up a couple of wins in Wuhan, and so comes into this opener a lot more match-sharp.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a case of praying for the yellow fluffies as both players play an aggressive and hard-hitting game. In terms of who will out-power who, while Boulter has worked extremely hard to improve her footwork, Noskova\u2019s improvements in terms of her serve, and her fitness make her the favourite.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction: Noskova in three sets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How to Watch\/Follow WTA Osaka<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ros Satar Katie Boulter v Linda Noskova [2] H2H: First Meeting OSAKA, JAPAN \u2013 Katie Boulter has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,23040,61818,82,593,101488],"class_list":{"0":"post-208201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-katie-boulter","11":"tag-linda-noskova","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-wta-osaka"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}