{"id":734973,"date":"2026-06-30T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/734973\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:30:08","slug":"wimbledon-2026-results-katie-swan-becomes-first-british-player-to-reach-second-round-but-katie-boulter-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/734973\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2026 results: Katie Swan becomes first British player to reach second round but Katie Boulter loses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boulter became the 11th British singles player to fall at the first hurdle at Wimbledon after losing to 6-2 6-4 to Italian teenager Tyra Caterina Grant.<\/p>\n

It is the first time since 2017 that Boulter has lost in the opening round at Wimbledon, with this her first-ever loss to a qualifier at a Grand Slam tournament.<\/p>\n

It comes just 18 days after she achieved the biggest win of her career by ranking, when she defeated world number two Elena Rybakina<\/a> in a stunning performance at Queen\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Seeking to push back against unwanted history on court three, Boulter got off to the worst possible start as Grant, who had never contested a singles match on grass at any level prior to Wimbledon qualifying this year, went an early break up.<\/p>\n

Boulter could not respond as the opening set slipped away and she was unable to recover from another setback early in the second.<\/p>\n

The Briton did not force a single break point in the match, with Grant dropping just three points across her final four service games as she comfortably served out victory.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old Grant was making her Grand Slam main-draw debut after coming through qualifying.<\/p>\n

Last year, 13 British players went out in round one. Not since 1988 have as many as 16 fallen at the first hurdle.<\/p>\n

A total of nine British players are in action on day two at the All England Club.<\/p>\n

Also on Tuesday, Jack Pinnington Jones returns to complete his match against American 28th seed Brandon Nakashima, trailing 6-3, 7-6(5), 4-3.<\/p>\n

Eastbourne semi-finalist Toby Samuel faces 15th seed Jakub Mensik, while British number two Jan Choinski takes on Vit Kopriva.<\/p>\n

Jacob Fearnley meets American Alex Michelsen, Arthur Fery faces Damir Dzumhur, Billy Harris is up against 19th seed Karen Khachanov, and Harry Wendelken comes up against Valentin Royer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boulter became the 11th British singles player to fall at the first hurdle at Wimbledon after losing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-734973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734973","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=734973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}