{"id":21326,"date":"2025-10-20T07:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/katie-boulter-british-number-three-beaten-by-eva-lys-in-pan-pacific-open\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:55:16","slug":"katie-boulter-british-number-three-beaten-by-eva-lys-in-pan-pacific-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/katie-boulter-british-number-three-beaten-by-eva-lys-in-pan-pacific-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter: British number three beaten by Eva Lys in Pan Pacific Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">British number three Katie Boulter&#8217;s poor run of form continued with a straight-sets loss to world number 44 Eva Lys in the first round of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boulter, 29, was beaten 6-2 6-1 in just one hour and 14 minutes by the 23-year-old German. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was the only British player in the main draw after Emma Raducanu withdrew, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cjek3pp34ljo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">ending her season early<\/a> through illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Briton was only able to win 50% of the points on her first serve and was broken five times by Lys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This latest defeat caps a disappointing run of form, which has seen the former world number 29 unable to progress beyond the second round of a tournament since the Nottingham Open in June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also comes five days after the Briton lost in straight sets in the second round of the Japan Open by world number 51 Sorana Cirstea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/ce8zy3vrrl8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British number three Katie Boulter&#8217;s poor run of form continued with a straight-sets loss to world number 44 Eva Lys in the first round of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. Boulter, 29, was beaten 6-2 6-1 in just one hour and 14 minutes by the 23-year-old German. She was the only British player in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21328,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21326\/revisions\/21328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}