by At the beginning of a highly filled last sentence on the Center Court, when she absolutely had to present the best of her skills, Katie Boulter was in Freall. Her quick start had given way to painful service problems and her specified number of errors grew with every point.
However, the 28-year-old Briton reacted to these difficulties with the demonstration of her resistance, which at the end of three test sets, to achieve one of the best victories of her career by storming the ninth seed Paula Badosa to reach the second round of Wimbledon with a 6-2, 3: 6: 4 victory.
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The victory marks the fourth top 10 victory of Boulter’s career and their second at a Grand Slam tournament, after being against the then No. 7, Karolina Pliskova, in 2022 against the then No. 7, Karolina Pliskova.
“I think I have one of my first against Pliskova at this dish,” said Boulter about her top 10 victory. “The moment I got out here, it only reminded me of the first ball. I have the feeling that I have a few really good Juju. I played a few really good things, so I’m glad to get into the next round.”
After Boulter spent so much of her career on the lower ITF racing route, she has brought her game to a different level in recent years, achieved a career rank of No. 23 and won three WTA titles, but a deep run at a Grand Slam tournament has further shown. This victory is the perfect start because she tries to feel her homeland -Grand -Slam championship. In the second round, she will compete against Argentina’s Solana Sierra in the second round against Solivia Gadecki on Monday.
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A year ago, Boulter joined the best form of her life in Wimbledon, faced her career in the All England Club for the first time, but she did not exceed well with this new position and experienced a painful defeat in the second round against her compatriot Harriet. After struggling with a foot injury at the beginning of the year, her shape did not match her high ambitions, but she believes that she has the weapons to challenge all top players on grass.
After waiting for more than four hours that Carlos Alcaraz had completed his five set victory against Fabio Fognini, Boulter and Badosa began her match until 6.40 p.m., an amazingly late start for the second game on the first day.
The British No 2 opened the match, which served at an incredibly high level, and landed 82% of the first services in their first six games and scored their places excellently. She supported her excellent portion by angry for the first strike on every point and dominated the baseline with its highest forerhand.
Just as everything seemed to flow, the momentum suddenly changed at the beginning of the second set. After Boulter’s surcharge had only made a double mistake throughout the game, he fell apart. With 1: 2, 30-30, she hit three double errors in the last four points of the game to handle Badosa’s first break.
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Their surcharge worsens, the rest of her game followed the example and became relaxed mistakes from her racket. Her opponent went out into the rallies on the net and gave no gone when she retained her depth and consistency and forced Boulter as many mistakes as she could.
These two sets are perfectly capsized boulters strengths and restrictions. Although she has massive weapons in her serve and forehand, which can worry many of the best defenses in the world, her second serve can also be one of her greatest weaknesses. If things are not perfectly synchronized, it may have difficulty adapting and loosening with her one-note attack style.
For a while they did not seem to escape these restrictions. She opened the last sentence with another double mistake to offer Badosa a fifth break point in the opening game that the Spaniard had taken.
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However, Boulter continued to fight. After picking up the break for 1-1, she restored the rhythm behind her first serve and marched through her service games during the last set. With 5: 4 with everything on the line and the center of Court, Boulter made her move and boldly attacked Badosa’s serve when she closed one of the most important victories in her career.
“Oh god, I completely bricked it up,” she said. “I recently played a lot of games in which I started greatly, but then somehow slip. I actually played one at Queen [Club]Which hurt me very much. Today I only tried to take part in competitions, fight, hope for the best, hope she missed it and repeatedly urged me to be positive, fulfill the ball and realize it. Today it actually happened, so I’m thrilled. “
