{"id":197027,"date":"2025-10-13T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197027\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:24:06","slug":"katie-boulter-upsets-linda-noskova-to-reach-japan-open-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197027\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter upsets Linda Noskova to reach Japan Open second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both players lost their serve three times in the first set but Boulter dominated the tie-break to take an advantage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boulter improved significantly in the second set, when she won 78% of points on serve compared to 51% during the first set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victory was much-needed after a disappointing summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old came into the match on the back of five opening-round defeats from seven tournaments, slipping behind Sonay Kartal in the rankings to become Britain&#8217;s number three. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cirstea came from behind to beat Japan&#8217;s Moyuka Uchijima 2-6 6-4 6-2 to set up the match against Boulter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Top seed Naomi Osaka strolled into the second round with a comprehensive 6-0 6-4 win against Sonobe Wakana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both players lost their serve three times in the first set but Boulter dominated the tie-break to take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-197027","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\/197027","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=197027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}