{"id":384185,"date":"2026-01-02T20:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384185\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:49:10","slug":"katie-boulter-turns-to-michael-joyce-former-coach-of-maria-sharapova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384185\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter turns to Michael Joyce, former coach of Maria Sharapova"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boulter split from Biljana Veselinovic late last year after a three-year partnership in which she won three WTA titles.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old is currently the British number four having fallen out of the world’s top 100.<\/p>\n

Boulter has won only three tour level matches since Wimbledon and tore an abductor in her final event of last year in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

As a result she just missed out on a main draw place<\/a> at the Australian Open. She is currently the third alternate, and without sufficient withdrawals, will need to win through qualifying at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n

But there is still plenty Boulter wishes to achieve, as she made clear in an interview with BBC Sport in November.<\/p>\n

“Going forward with a new coach, one thing I’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,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been ranked as high as 23 and I know I can get back there. I don’t think my level has gone anywhere, I think the consistency needs to improve.<\/p>\n

“My goal is not to be ranked 50, 40, 30, 20 – we’ve been there. The goal is to be inside 20.”<\/p>\n

On Instagram, Boulter welcomed 2026 as “the best year of her life” – she is due to marry Australia’s world number seven Alex de Minaur.<\/p>\n

And she made it clear she will not be mourning the year just gone.<\/p>\n

“Adios 2025. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out,” she posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boulter split from Biljana Veselinovic late last year after a three-year partnership in which she won three WTA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-384185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384185","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=384185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}