{"id":209935,"date":"2025-10-13T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/209935\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T13:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:45:07","slug":"katie-boulter-upsets-linda-noskova-to-reach-japan-open-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/209935\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter upsets Linda Noskova to reach Japan Open second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both players lost their serve three times in the first set but Boulter dominated the tie-break to take an advantage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boulter improved significantly in the second set, when she won 78% of points on serve compared to 51% during the first set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victory was much-needed after a disappointing summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old came into the match on the back of five opening-round defeats from seven tournaments, slipping behind Sonay Kartal in the rankings to become Britain&#8217;s number three. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cirstea came from behind to beat Japan&#8217;s Moyuka Uchijima 2-6 6-4 6-2 to set up the match against Boulter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Top seed Naomi Osaka strolled into the second round with a comprehensive 6-0 6-4 win against Sonobe Wakana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both players lost their serve three times in the first set but Boulter dominated the tie-break to take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-209935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209935","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=209935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}