Katie Boulter lost 6-1 6-4 to Katerina Siniakova in the semi-finals of the Japan Open.<\/p>\n
Boulter had reached her third WTA semi-final of the 2026 season and has reclaimed her place as British No 1 from Sonay Kartal.<\/p>\n
But her run came to an end in Osaka with Siniakova starting their semi-final match up strongly.<\/p>\n
The Czech won the first five games of the match and Boulter had to save a set point to win her first game.<\/p>\n
Boulter stirred hopes of a fightback when she broke Siniakova but her opponent soon seized back control.<\/p>\n
The Briton showed greater resistance in the second set but Siniakova served out for a straightforward victory.<\/p>\n
Siniakova, the world No 86, will face USA’s Ashlyn Krueger in Sunday’s final.<\/p>\n
The world No 55 beat fellow American Ann Li in Saturday’s other semi-final, knocking out the No 1 seed in three sets.<\/p>\n
Rybakina into Ningbo Open final<\/p>\n
Elena Rybakina is looking to defend her Ningbo Open title after beating Diana Shnaider in their semi-final on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Rybakina beat Shnaider 6-3 7-5 to set up a final with Leylah Fernandez.<\/p>\n
Australian and US Open champion Rybakina, who \u200barrived for her title defence after \u2060a bruising defeat in Beijing \u2060and a foot injury that forced her out of Wuhan, showed flashes of \u200cher best form despite a few wobbles against Shnaider.<\/p>\n
Watch the WTA and ATP Tours live on Sky Sports, with this week’s action including events in China, Japan, Kazakhstan, France and Belgium. Latest Sky Sports deals<\/a> or stream no contract on NOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter lost 6-1 6-4 to Katerina Siniakova in the semi-finals of the Japan Open. Boulter had reached…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812542","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\/812542","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=812542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}