Katie Boulter

Katie Charlotte Boulter (born 1 August 1996) is a British professional tennis player.

She is the current British No. 1 in women's singles.

Boulter, from Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire, has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour as well as seven singles titles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

On 4 March 2024, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 27.

Following in the path of Anna Kournikova, Boulter showed promise in 2008 when she won the Lemon Bowl in Rome, aged 11.

She ended the year ranked 100th.

She went on in 2011, aged 14, to become a finalist in the Junior Orange Bowl Tennis Championships in Coral Gables, Florida.

Past finalists have included Andy Murray and Caroline Wozniacki.

She was awarded the Aegon Junior Player Award that month.

Boulter claimed her first senior doubles title at a $10k event in Sharm El Sheikh in November 2013.

Boulter was ranked the No. 10 junior tennis player in the world in March 2014.

She is based at the Lawn Tennis Association's National Tennis Centre in Roehampton and coached by Jeremy Bates, Nigel Sears and Mark Taylor.

Boulter was born in Leicestershire, the second of two children to David and Susan (née Gartshore) and has an older brother, Alexander.

Boulter's mother, Susan, played tennis at county level and represented Great Britain a few times as a junior.

Boulter's maternal grandmother, Gill Gartshore (née Dran), was also a county champion tennis player.

Boulter herself started playing tennis aged 5, and went on to represent Great Britain three years later, aged 8.

She has said that when she was younger, beating her older brother was a motivating factor.

"We used to practise together at this local court down the road from our house. It was the only thing I could eventually beat him in, so that felt great."

Boulter played the piano before her tennis career began to take precedence.

In January 2014, Boulter went on to have further doubles success and was a finalist at the Australian Open girls' doubles event with Ivana Jorović.

In May 2014, in Sharm El Sheikh, Boulter won her first senior singles title over fellow Briton Eden Silva.

She also won the doubles title at the same event partnering Nina Stojanović, to whom she had lost a previous final in singles.

A month later, Boulter was given a wild card for Wimbledon qualifying, losing in the first round to Italian Alberta Brianti in a three-set match which lasted two-and-a-half hours.

On 31 December 2018, she peaked at No. 431 in the WTA doubles rankings.

She also has an interest in fashion and made an appearance in Vogue magazine in 2018.

She is a supporter of Leicester City Football Club.

Boulter is currently in a relationship with Australian tennis player Alex de Minaur.

2018 became her most successful tennis year.

She won her first $25k singles title at the event in Óbidos, Portugal in April.

In May, Boulter then won a further singles title at the $60k event in Fukuoka, Japan.

Despite falling in the first round of qualifying for the French Open, Boulter carried her good form into the grass-court season, She received a wild card for the Nottingham Open and reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal there.

In July 2018, she received a wildcard into the $100k grass-court event in Southsea, England where she reached the final and fell to Kirsten Flipkens.

She then received a wildcard into the Wimbledon main draw, where she won her first-round match over Veronica Cepede Royg.

She lost in the second round to Naomi Osaka, in straight sets.

Boulter began the 2019 season in Hobart, Tasmania where she did not qualify, losing to Greet Minnen in three sets.

Her next tournament was the Australian Open.

She defeated Ekaterina Makarova, in three sets, with the first instance in the Australian Open of a third-set tiebreak, winning the tiebreak 10–6.

However, her run ended in the second round with a straight-set defeat by Aryna Sabalenka.

Her next tournament was the St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy during which she defeated Bernarda Pera, Katarina Zavatska and Ysaline Bonaventure in the qualifiers.

She then lost to Ekaterina Alexandrova in three sets.