{"id":237786,"date":"2025-10-20T04:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237786\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T04:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:34:08","slug":"tennis-wta-tokyo-2025-katie-boulter-must-defend-semi-final-points-from-2024-as-she-faces-eva-lys-in-the-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237786\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis | WTA Tokyo 2025 | Katie Boulter must defend semi-final points from 2024, as she faces Eva Lys in the first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBy Ros Satar<\/p>\n<p>Katie Boulter [Q] v Eva Lys [Q]<br \/>\nH2H: First Meeting<\/p>\n<p>TOKYO, JAPAN \u2013 Katie Boulter finds herself in a battle of the qualifiers for her Tokyo opener.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Katie Boulter [Q] v Eva Lys [Q] | H2H &amp; Match Fundamentals<\/p>\n<p>Katie Boulter [Q] v Eva Lys [Q]<br \/>\nH2H: First Meeting<\/p>\n<p>WTA Tokyo<br \/>\nJapan<\/p>\n<p>Hard (O)<br \/>\nPrize Money: $11,300<\/p>\n<p>First on Centre Court at 10:30am (2:30am BST)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/watch-sky-sports-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sky\/Now TV<\/a> &lt;- Subscription Required<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/britwatchsports.com\/katie-boulter-gbr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Katie Boulter<\/a> faces fellow qualifier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/wplayer.cgi?p=EvaLys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Eva Lys<\/a> as she looks to defend her run to the semi-final last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also see |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/britwatchsports.com\/tennis-the-weekly-watch-20-october-2025-alexander-zverev-and-taylor-fritz-eye-atp-finals-berth-in-vienna-and-basel-wta-finals-line-up-to-be-confirmed-in-tokyo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tennis | The Weekly Watch 20 October 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tale of the Tape \u2013 Key Stats (Hard \u2013 2025)<\/p>\n<p>H2H:<br \/>\nKatie Boulter (WR 59)<br \/>\nEva Lys (WR 44)<\/p>\n<p>Tournament Previous Best<br \/>\nSF (2024)<br \/>\nDebut<\/p>\n<p>1st Serve Return Points Won %<br \/>\n32.6<br \/>\n38.6<\/p>\n<p>Return Points Won %<br \/>\n41.1<br \/>\n45.8<\/p>\n<p>Break Point Conversion %<br \/>\n50.0<br \/>\n52.0<\/p>\n<p>Break Points Saved %<br \/>\n51.0<br \/>\n52.6<\/p>\n<p>Overall Service Points Won %<br \/>\n54.2<br \/>\n56.1<\/p>\n<p>The stats are indicative of the year Eva Lys has had, rising up the rankings sharply and reaching the quarter-final in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.connectedclubs.co.uk\/?wpam_id=24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-56592 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Connected-Clubs-Graphic.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Playing Styles &amp; Prediction<\/p>\n<p>The Asian swing continues to be challenging for Boulter. She has yet to get back-to-back main draw wins, although she has come through two rounds of qualifying to reach this round.<br \/>She is up against Lys who has enjoyed a run of successes since the summer, and certainly comes in a little more match sharp in this swing.<\/p>\n<p>Boulter will want to get off to a quick start with a lot of points at stake this week, but in this battle of the qualifiers it is quite tight to call.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction: Boulter in three sets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How to Watch\/Follow WTA Tokyo<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ros Satar Katie Boulter [Q] v Eva Lys [Q] H2H: First Meeting TOKYO, JAPAN \u2013 Katie Boulter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[52691,18356,99,428,131489],"class_list":["post-237786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-eva-lys","tag-katie-boulter","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wta-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}