News about Katie Boulter

Aussie tennis star Alex de Minaur and his girlfriend Katie Boulter (pictured together, left and right) might have to put their love to one side later on this year. The couple celebrated their fourth anniversary back in June.

The 25-year-old (pictured left in action on Wednesday, and right with girlfriend Katie Boulter) has returned to the court as he fights a troubling injury - and now he could be right to help Australia in the finals of the Davis Cup.

MATTHEW LAMBERT AT FLUSHING MEADOWS: Katie Boulter said: 'Everything feels horrendous today,' as the British No1 was upset 7-5, 7-5 by Jessica Bouzas Maneiro at the US Open in a match Tim Henman later insisted she should have won 'fairly routinely'. The 31st seed made that comment to her coaching team as her 4-2 first-set lead spiralled into defeat against the world No 74. That straight-sets loss means no British woman has made it past the second round here in New York this year. Henman, speaking on Sky, did not mince his words in assessing Boulter's performance.

MATTHEW LAMBERT: Dan Evans pulled off some incredible feats of escapology alongside Andy Murray at the Olympics but this was his best trick yet - and a comeback of which the great Scot himself would have been proud. In the longest match in US Open history, Evans trailed Karen Khachanov 4-0 in the deciding set but reeled off six games on the trot. It was a spectacular way to record the third British win on a superb day at the US Open for the trans-Atlantic raiders. First Katie Boulter came from behind to win, then Jack Draper eased through in a little over an hour. And then Evans slugged it out for five hours and 33 minutes against hulking Russian Khachanov, winning 6-7, 7-6, 7-6, 4-6, 6-4.

MATTHEW LAMBERT AT FLUSHING MEADOWS: On a beautiful day in New York, Katie Boulter won ugly to reach the second round of the US Open. The British No1 lost the opening set and had an unusually bad day on serve but eventually prevailed 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 against qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich. The 28-year-old's game is built around her serve so there are positives to take from the way she chiselled out the win despite landing only 46 per cent of her first deliveries.

MATTHEW LAMBERT AT FLUSHING MEADOWS: In recent years on the WTA Tour, it has seemed like winning a Grand Slam has been at least as much a curse as a blessing. Two poster girls for that theory face off on Tuesday, with 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu taking on 2020 Australian Open winner Sofia Kenin. Since her breakout year Kenin has reached only a single final and Raducanu has made none, with both admitting the pressure of backing up those major wins has at times been crippling. Kenin, now 25, was a teen prodigy and her win Down Under was far less out-of-the-blue than Raducanu's Fairytale of New York.

Alex de Minaur was left lost for word during an interview on The Project on Thursday evening. The 25-year-old Australian tennis star appeared dumbstruck when host Georgie Tunny quizzed him about his sex symbol status, and compared his features to a rat.  'Did you know that you have been voted Australia's sexiest rodent boyfriend?' she said in her hard hitting interview. 

For some athletes, the 2024 Olympics is a bit of a love affair - because they're competing alongside their partners. That's right, a slew of sports stars and their significant others are both going for gold at the Games in Paris. Whether they're fighting for the same team or not, these couples could not be more supportive of one another, and their love stories have captured viewers all across the globe.

The Aussie pair were dispatched of in brutal fashion by Team USA rivals Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram, who won the contest 6-2, 6-4 at Roland Garros.

He pulled out of his quarter-final against Novak Djokovic , with the injury appearing to threaten his dream Olympic debut after he flagged a three to six week recovery.

Emma Raducanu landed in Washington DC, nearly 4,000 miles away from Paris, on Friday to prepare for next week's Mubadala Citi DC Open. The former US Open champion documented her arrival with an Instagram post by uploading a photograph of herself near the Washington Monument. Her image was captioned: 'Love this place'. 

The opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games is underway, with more than 300,000 spectators set to crowd the banks of the River Seine after a series of scandals threatened to overshadow France's showpiece event. Organisers will be praying that tonight's carefully choreographed parade, which kicks off at 6.30pm UK time, will go smoothly after a 'massive arson attack' brought mayhem to France 's rail network today. The 'co-ordinated acts of malice' on high-speed rail lines across the Channel has left sport fans facing travel chaos, with snaking queues forming at St Pancras as Eurostar trains were delayed or axed. Eurostar has told customers to cancel their trips today if they can - advice which has been backed by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. In a major blow to Olympics organisers, Eurostar delays are set to last until Monday, with one in four trains due to be cancelled today and over the weekend.

The Australian, 25, suffered a concerning injury on match point of his last-16 game against Arthur Fils on Monday and walked gingerly off Court One in worrying signs for fans.

Philippoussis, now 47, couldn't help smiling as he watched Djokovic, after his win over Holger Rune in Monday's last-16 match, then angrily round on the Dane's fans whom he felt were disrespecting him with their chants.

Worryingly for the 25-year-old, who will play seven-time champion Novak Djokovic or Denmark's Holger Rune in the quarter-finals, he appeared to be in some discomfort at the end.

Katie Boulter was pictured on Court One on Monday watching her boyfriend Alex de Minaur face off for a spot in the quarter-finals of the men's singles at Wimbledon against Arthur Fils. It comes just days after Boulter crashed out of the tournament after she was beaten in the second round of the ladies' singles by fellow Brit Harriet Dart, 6-4 1-6 6-7. Should De Minaur surpass Fils, it will be the first time in the Australian tennis star's career that he has reached the quarter-finals at the All England Championship.

British No 2 Harriet Dart lost six games in a row to suffer a painful three-set defeat to Wang Xinyu in the third round to miss out on the chance to break new ground at Wimbledon. Dart had failed to reach the last 16 of a grand slam since her main-draw debut at the All England Club six years ago, but she negotiated windy conditions and rain delays to move 5-4 up in the second before she sent a simple smash volley into the net at deuce. It was the closest Dart would get to a match point, with further lapses of concentration in the third after she raced into a three-game lead bringing her fine run at the Championships to an end after a 2-6 7-5 6-3 loss to Wang.

Wimbledon organisers have a crack team of investigators poised to protect players from online abuse, unmask trolls and identify potential stalkers during the tournament as abuse against female stars 'continues to increase'. New monitoring service Threat Matrix will use AI to constantly scan content on platforms such as X, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and TikTok for any harmful posts aimed at competitors. It comes as the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) warned that the number of female stars affected by online bullying is on the rise and urged social media bosses to make their platforms safer. In 2022, British tennis star Emma Raducanu told police she was 'constantly looking over her shoulder' after a besotted former Amazon delivery driver tracked down her address and left notes, flowers and even Christmas decorations. Any questionable messages targeted at the players will be reviewed by a group of trained analysts who will seek to identify the worst offenders, assess the risks posed and have the content removed. Last night, British No 2 Harriet Dart spoke after her win over British No 1 Katie Boulter about the pitfalls of social media.

Some sporting rivalries run deeper than a match won or lost. They run in the blood. So it is with Katie Boulter and Harriet Dart whose simmering tensions on the tennis court flows from a proud lineage in the game established by their mothers. Mothers, who faced off against each other for supremacy in their generation of tennis. Sue Boulter introduced her daughter to tennis aged just four, having been inducted to the sport by her own mother Jill when was still a young girl in Leicestershire. While Susie Dart took her daughter along to her first practice session aged seven at the Cumberland Lawn Tennis Club, in Hampstead, north London, after her own successful career.

British tennis star Katie Boulter (pictured right) has praised Aussie boyfriend Alex de Minaur (left) for lifting her spirits following her heartbreaking defeat in the second round of Wimbledon against compatriot Harriet Dart.

JAMES SHARPE AT WIMBLEDON: It was an emotional day at Wimbledon as Centre Court celebrated the legacy of Andy Murray. Murray and his brother Jamie were beaten by Rinky Hijikata and John Peers in the men's doubles before a series of tributes were paid to the two-time champion, who is playing his final Wimbledon. Elsewhere, there were two 'Battles of Britain' as Harriet Dart overcame Katie Boulter and Cameron Norrie swept aside Jack Draper.

TAMARA PRENN ON NO1 COURT: Cameron Norrie pulled off the second all-British upset of the day, beating Jack Draper - who this month replaced him as British No1 - 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 7-6 (8-6) on Thursday evening.  On the heels of British No2 Harriet Dart's triumph over Katie Boulter hours earlier on the same No1 Court, Norrie recorded a statement win on home soil. But unlike the women's battle, the 28-year-old was able to see out his victory in straight sets.  The recently deposed British No1 has been on a woeful run of form, dumped out of both Queen's Club and Eastbourne in the first round on grass and unable to string together a spate of wins since reaching the semi-final of the Rio de Janiero Open in February. 

DAVID COVERDALE AT WIMBLEDON: From crying in despair to weeping with joy, all in the space of 10 points. What an emotional rollercoaster this was for Harriet Dart. And what a win for the 27-year-old against her old foe Katie Boulter in a truly epic Battle of Britain. Three times Dart was reduced to tears on No 1 Court on Thursday. First, she wept into her towel during the changeover when she trailed 5-4 in the final set. Then, she took herself to the back of the court for a cry after going 6-2 down in the 10-point deciding tiebreak.

The Battle of the Brits is underway at Wimbledon today as Katie Boulter and Harriet Dart go head-to-head on Court One, while tennis legend Andy Murray steps onto the double's court as he begins his farewell to SW19. Alongside his brother Jamie, in what will be the first time the siblings have paired up for a Grand Slam, Murray will take to Centre Court, as the veteran player vows this will be his last ever Wimbledon. British number one Boulter is already one set up Dart, who ranks second, in what is their fourth clash over the past four years.