Katie Boulter claimed a dominant win in her rain-affected first round match against Himeno Sakatsume in the Japan Open.<\/p>\n
The British player was a set and 3-1 up against the home favourite when play was halted because of bad weather in Osaka on Monday. <\/p>\n
She completed the win on Tuesday as she secured a 6-3 6-1 victory.<\/p>\n
“Yesterday was a tough spot to end at,” said Boulter, who will play Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland in the second round. <\/p>\n
“I wanted to play last night and continue but with the rain, unfortunately, that wasn’t possible.<\/p>\n
“It meant that I had to have the same mindset again today and just try to get over the line and focus on getting through the match.<\/p>\n
“I think I did that. I didn’t want to be out here playing a third set so I’m pleased with today.”<\/p>\n
Boulter, 30, took five of nine break points in the match and, even though she faced 13 break points, wild card Sakatsume only managed to take one.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Iga Swiatek’s hopes of reaching the WTA Finals in Indian Wells have suffered a setback with the world number nine having withdrawn from the Ningbo Open because of a thigh injury.<\/p>\n
The Finals, which feature the top eight singles players and doubles teams of the year, is taking place from 8-15 November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter claimed a dominant win in her rain-affected first round match against Himeno Sakatsume in the Japan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-888818","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\/888818","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=888818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}