{"id":635520,"date":"2026-06-12T21:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635520\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:11:15","slug":"hsbc-championship-2026-katie-boulter-through-to-her-first-quarter-final-at-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635520\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC Championship 2026: Katie Boulter through to her first quarter-final at Queen\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katie Boulter put on a dominant display to move past Jaqueline Cristian in straight sets to reach a career-first quarter-final at the HSBC Championships. <\/p>\n

The British No.3 won 6-1, 6-3 in not much over an hour on Court 1 to book her place in the quarter-finals in her second appearance at the tournament.<\/p>\n

She\u2019ll face a tricky match-up top seed and former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina who recovered from a set down to defeat defending champion Tatjana Maria.<\/p>\n

Rybakina leads their head-to-head 2-0 with two straight set wins, including a meeting in the Wimbledon third round in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The match will be fourth on Andy Murray Arena following the completion of the other second round matches.<\/p>\n

Speaking on court after the match, Boulter<\/a> praised her performance in a one-sided clash.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cI felt like I came out really fast and I think I kind of used the momentum from my first match and tried to take it to her and commit to my shots,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I think I did really well in the second to just stay composed and not try and play too well and just stay solid. I think I did such a good job today so I\u2019m very pleased.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two-time Lexus Nottingham Open champ is hoping to pick up her third title on home soil and add to her first WTA 500 trophy from San Diego in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do love the grass,” Boulter remarked about the surface. “I\u2019ve been here since I was a little girl, playing on the grass, I think it\u2019s so great.<\/p>\n

“I feel very comfortable, and I think for me it\u2019s about committing to my shots, you can\u2019t ease into it, you just have to commit and see what comes up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter put on a dominant display to move past Jaqueline Cristian in straight sets to reach a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-635520","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\/635520","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=635520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}