{"id":383758,"date":"2026-01-02T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/383758\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:31:07","slug":"katie-boulter-turns-to-michael-joyce-former-coach-of-maria-sharapova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/383758\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter turns to Michael Joyce, former coach of Maria Sharapova"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boulter split from Biljana Veselinovic late last year after a three-year partnership in which she won three WTA titles.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old is currently the British number four having fallen out of the world’s top 100.<\/p>\n

Boulter has won only three tour level matches since Wimbledon and tore an abductor in her final event of last year in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

As a result she just missed out on a main draw place<\/a> at the Australian Open. She is currently the third alternate, and without sufficient withdrawals, will need to win through qualifying at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n

But there is still plenty Boulter wishes to achieve, as she made clear in an interview with BBC Sport in November.<\/p>\n

“Going forward with a new coach, one thing I’m very clear on is that they are going to be someone who has a lot of experience in how to make it to the very top level of this game,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been ranked as high as 23 and I know I can get back there. I don’t think my level has gone anywhere, I think the consistency needs to improve.<\/p>\n

“My goal is not to be ranked 50, 40, 30, 20 – we’ve been there. The goal is to be inside 20.”<\/p>\n

On Instagram, Boulter welcomed 2026 as “the best year of her life” – she is due to marry Australia’s world number seven Alex de Minaur.<\/p>\n

And she made it clear she will not be mourning the year just gone.<\/p>\n

“Adios 2025. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out,” she posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boulter split from Biljana Veselinovic late last year after a three-year partnership in which she won three WTA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-383758","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\/383758","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=383758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}