{"id":226438,"date":"2025-10-20T08:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/226438\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:24:07","slug":"boulters-poor-run-continues-with-first-round-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/226438\/","title":{"rendered":"Boulter&#8217;s poor run continues with first-round loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British number three Katie Boulter&#8217;s poor run of form continued with a straight-sets loss to world number 44 Eva Lys in the first round of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Boulter, 29, was beaten 6-2 6-1 in just one hour and 14 minutes by the 23-year-old German.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>She was the only British player in the main draw after Emma Raducanu withdrew, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cjek3pp34ljo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ending her season early;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ending her season early<\/a> through illness.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton was only able to win 50% of the points on her first serve and was broken five times by Lys.<\/p>\n<p>This latest defeat caps a disappointing run of form, which has seen the former world number 29 unable to progress beyond the second round of a tournament since the Nottingham Open in June.<\/p>\n<p>It also comes five days after the Briton lost in straight sets in the second round of the Japan Open by world number 51 Sorana Cirstea.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/?s=598314&amp;p=sport.tennis.articles.ce8zy3vrrl8o.page&amp;x1=%5Burn%3Abbc%3Aoptimo%3Aasset%3Ace8zy3vrrl8o%5D&amp;x4=%5Ben-gb%5D&amp;x5=%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fsport%2Ftennis%2Farticles%2Fce8zy3vrrl8o%5D&amp;x7=%5Barticle%5D&amp;x8=%5Bsynd_nojs_ISAPI%5D&amp;x9=%5BBoulter%27s+poor+run+continues+with+first-round+loss%5D&amp;x11=%5B2025-10-20T06%3A22%3A02.368Z%5D&amp;x12=%5B2025-10-20T06%3A22%3A02.368Z%5D&amp;x19=%5Byahoo.north.america%5D\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British number three Katie Boulter&#8217;s poor run of form continued with a straight-sets loss to world number 44&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[108342,49,48,3270,39150,23040,108340,82,80258,593,108341],"class_list":["post-226438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-british-player","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-eva-lys","tag-katie-boulter","tag-pan-pacific-open","tag-sports","tag-straight-sets","tag-tennis","tag-world-number"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226438","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=226438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}