Boulter beat reigning Australian Open champion Rybakina 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 to seal her second victory in the space of a few hours on the grass at the Wimbledon warm-up event.<\/p>\n
Boulter had defeated Romania’s Jaqueline Cristian 6-1, 6-3 earlier in the day before returning to stun top seed Rybakina in the evening.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old, ranked 73rd in the world, showed no signs of fatigue as she wore down Rybakina, who won Wimbledon in 2022, in a gruelling clash lasting over two and a half hours.<\/p>\n
In Saturday’s semi-final, Boulter, who was given a wildcard entry into the tournament, will face Croatia’s Donna Vekic, a 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 winner over Karolina Pliskova in the last eight.<\/p>\n
Rybakina was also playing for the second time in the day after ending Tatjana Maria’s reign as Queen’s champion with a 6-7 (4\/7), 7-5, 6-0 win over the German.<\/p>\n
Former US Open champion Emma Raducanu clinched a place in the quarter-finals for a second successive year with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Romanian seventh seed Sorana Cirstea.<\/p>\n
It was a cathartic victory for the British number one, who lost to Cirstea in the Cluj-Napoca final in February.<\/p>\n
“Earlier in the year she beat me, but I’m glad I could get her back at home as well,” Raducanu said after her first win against a top-20 ranked opponent in over a year.<\/p>\n
“I think I played a really high level. I knew I had to.”<\/p>\n
Raducanu will play her delayed quarter-final on Saturday against Uzbekistan’s Kamilla Rakhimova, who beat British wildcard Harriet Dart.<\/p>\n
The winner of Raducanu’s meeting with Rakhimova will play American sixth seed Iva Jovic in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
Jovic beat former Wimbledon runner-up Amanda Anisimova 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.<\/p>\n
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