{"id":944472,"date":"2026-10-24T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944472\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:10:17","slug":"japan-open-katie-boulter-loses-to-katerina-siniakova-in-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944472\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Open: Katie Boulter loses to Katerina Siniakova in semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katie Boulter has lost in the Japan Open semi-finals, in her first match since reclaiming the British number one spot from Sonny Kartal.<\/p>\n

Kartal moved above Boulter in the world rankings by reaching the final of last week’s Wuhan Open.<\/a><\/p>\n

But Boulter’s run to the last four in Osaka, which included a victory over Antonia Ruzic in the quarter-finals,<\/a> will be enough for her to go back above Kartal when the rankings are next updated. <\/p>\n

However, the 30-year-old missed the chance to reach the final, and a shot at a fifth WTA singles title, losing 6-1 6-4 to doubles world number one Siniakova. <\/p>\n

Eighth seed Boulter rallied after being swept aside in the opening set, going a break up at the start of the second. <\/p>\n

But Siniakova, also 30, maintained her bid for a first singles title in four years by claiming two hard-fought breaks of her own to wrap up victory in 85 minutes.<\/p>\n

She will now play 2023 champion Ashlyn Krueger in Sunday’s final after the 22-year-old American beat compatriot and top seed Ann Li 6-4 6-7 (4-7) 6-3. <\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Ukraine’s world number one Elena Rybakina reached her sixth final of the season and first since winning the US Open in September<\/a> with a 6-3 7-5 victory over sixth seed Diana Shnaider at the Ningbo Open in China.<\/p>\n

The defending champion will meet Leylah Fernandez in Sunday’s final following the Canadian’s 6-3 7-5 win over Czech player Marie Bouzkova. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter has lost in the Japan Open semi-finals, in her first match since reclaiming the British number…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-944472","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\/944472","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=944472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}