{"id":501878,"date":"2026-02-27T00:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501878\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:03:13","slug":"merida-open-katie-boulter-beats-camila-osorio-in-second-round-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501878\/","title":{"rendered":"Merida Open: Katie Boulter beats Camila Osorio in second round in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a difficult 2025, Boulter was desperate to close the door on what she deemed an annus horribilis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Starting afresh in 2026 was the plan and appointing a new coach in Michael Joyce, who helped Maria Sharapova win Grand Slam titles, was part of the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Powerful baseliner Boulter has made a productive start with a series of victories against players ranked outside the top 60, but there are still flaws with her service game which need to be ironed out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A low first-serve percentage against Osorio meant she had to save four break points to maintain her lead, although she was able to take advantage of the Colombian&#8217;s own issues by pummelling her second serve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The slower conditions in Merida are not really conducive to Boulter&#8217;s game &#8211; particularly her having come from the quicker indoor courts in Ostrava.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adjusting is something which Boulter finds difficult, so she took heart from a more fluent returning game against Osorio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But she knows further improvement will be required to continue her recent run, particularly if two-time Grand Slam finalist Paolini, whose shot-making and athleticism has proved difficult for Boulter to handle in the past, is her quarter-final opponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a difficult 2025, Boulter was desperate to close the door on what she deemed an annus horribilis.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-501878","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\/501878","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=501878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}