{"id":334616,"date":"2025-12-09T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/334616\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:27:07","slug":"katie-boulter-misses-out-on-a-place-in-the-main-draw-of-the-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/334616\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter misses out on a place in the main draw of the Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former British number one Katie Boulter has missed out on a place in the main draw for the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

There are 104 players who have received direct entry into the Melbourne draw, including those with protected rankings, with Boulter currently ranked 106.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old will now have to go through qualifying at Melbourne Park in January for the first Grand Slam of 2026.<\/p>\n

Boulter had the opportunity to earn extra ranking points in the WTA 125 challenger event in France last week but opted not to play after sustaining a hip injury in Hong Kong in October.<\/p>\n

She told BBC Sport in November that she had to “choose between my body and my ranking” when weighing up whether to play<\/a> to improve her ranking. <\/p>\n

“If there are tournaments there, it gives you an opportunity because you want to make the main draw of Australia,” she said at the time.<\/p>\n

“I think I know my own right choice, but it’s difficult because it means that everyone else is going to be playing and passing me.”<\/p>\n

Boulter has won just 14 Tour-level main-draw matches this year and recently split with coach Biljana Veselinovic after a three-year partnership in which she won three WTA titles.<\/p>\n

Emma Raducanu, Sonay Kartal and Francesca Jones all received direct entry into the main draw – along with Jack Draper, Cameron Norrie and Jacob Fearnley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former British number one Katie Boulter has missed out on a place in the main draw for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-334616","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\/334616","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=334616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}