{"id":274067,"date":"2025-11-20T18:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274067\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:37:08","slug":"katie-boulter-choosing-between-body-and-ranking-for-australian-open-main-draw-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/274067\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter choosing &#8216;between body and ranking&#8217; for Australian Open main draw place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year has been a challenging one for Boulter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She won only 14 Tour-level main-draw matches and recently split with coach Biljana Veselinovic after a three-year partnership in which she won three WTA titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Biljana is an incredible coach, and an extremely good human as well, which makes things very difficult,&#8221; Boulter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it was just time. I think we both felt that it was the right thing to do. We&#8217;ve accomplished so much together. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m still going to be spending a lot of time talking to her, I think she&#8217;s a huge part of my team regardless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The search for a new coach is well under way, seeking someone who has high-level experience as Boulter still believes she can be a top-20 player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Going forward with a new coach, one thing I&#8217;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,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been ranked as high as 23 and I know I can get back there. I don&#8217;t think my level has gone anywhere, I think the consistency needs to improve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My goal is not to be ranked 50, 40, 30, 20 &#8211; we&#8217;ve been there. The goal is to be inside 20.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year has been a challenging one for Boulter. She won only 14 Tour-level main-draw matches and recently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-274067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274067","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=274067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}