{"id":158549,"date":"2025-09-25T00:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158549\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:47:11","slug":"china-open-katie-boulter-seals-much-needed-win-to-make-second-round-in-beijing-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158549\/","title":{"rendered":"China Open: Katie Boulter seals much-needed win to make second round in Beijing | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Boulter sealed a much-needed win against Hailey Baptiste 7-5 5-7 6-4 to make the second round of the China Open on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Boulter continued her positive performances at the Billie Jean King Cup with a battling performance against the American world No 51 to set up a second-round meeting against Wimbledon and US Open finalist Amanda Anisimova.<\/p>\n<p>Heading to Beijing, Boulter had been on a patchy run of form, with first-round exits at the US Open, National Bank Open and Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n<p>        Twitter<\/p>\n<p>                This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies.<br \/>\n                To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.<br \/>\n                You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Twitter cookies or to allow those cookies just once.<br \/>\n                You can change your settings at any time via the <a href=\"#privacy-options\">Privacy Options<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies.<br \/>\n                To view this content you can use the button below to allow Twitter cookies for this session only.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-permanently\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-show-on-fallback=\"false\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow\">Enable Cookies<\/a><br \/>\n                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-once\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow-once\">Allow Cookies Once<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Playing on a hard court surface that favours Boulter&#8217;s game style, she claimed just her fourth win at WTA 1000 level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What a battle,&#8221; said Boulter, who let a double break lead slip in the final set but regrouped to serve out for victory. &#8220;I found it very difficult to get over the line today. I think she was playing some really disruptive tennis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s so talented. I know what she&#8217;s capable of and I&#8217;m really pleased that mentally I stayed as strong as I possibly could and found a way through it, so, I&#8217;m happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;I&#8217;ve had a tough couple of months and I&#8217;m just really pleased with the way I&#8217;m putting myself out there and just trying to fight for every single point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I played some good tennis last week and obviously new conditions here. Tough to play against a very good player so I think I did well to get through that match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boulter vs Baptiste: Tale of the Tape <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/skysports-katie-boulter-tennis_7030266.png\"   alt=\"Katie Boulter: Tale of the Tape\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports&#8217; analyst Colin Fleming, said: &#8220;Huge positives for the way Boulter finished that match to take into her match against Anisimova. She&#8217;ll need her first serve to be consistent and play one of the best matches of her season if she wants to get through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the ATP and WTA Tours, live on Sky Sports in 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/watch-sky-sports-online?DCMP=ilc_skysports_nc_articlelink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream tennis and more sport contract-free with NOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter sealed a much-needed win against Hailey Baptiste 7-5 5-7 6-4 to make the second round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-158549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}