{"id":5996,"date":"2024-10-24T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T12:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/katie-boulter-reaches-toray-pan-pacific-open-quarter-finals-in-tokyo\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T12:35:11","slug":"katie-boulter-reaches-toray-pan-pacific-open-quarter-finals-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/katie-boulter-reaches-toray-pan-pacific-open-quarter-finals-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter reaches Toray Pan Pacific Open quarter-finals in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boulter is looking to finish a season where she has won two WTA titles with a flourish and has reached her first quarter-final since Eastbourne in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The clinical victory over Okamura sets up an intriguing clash with Canadian wildcard Bianca Andreescu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andreescu, 24, won the 2019 US Open as a teenager but has been plagued by injury problems since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Bianca is an incredible fighter, won a Grand Slam and is playing some good tennis,&#8221; said Boulter, who has no ranking points to defend and could move back into the top 30 this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a free swing for me at the end of the year and I have nothing to lose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boulter is seeded ninth at the WTA 500 event in the Japanese capital, with China&#8217;s Zheng Qinwen, Russian Daria Kasatkina, Diana Shnaider and Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez left in the draw as higher-ranked players.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c93q5x49q3qo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boulter is looking to finish a season where she has won two WTA titles with a flourish and has reached her first quarter-final since Eastbourne in June. The clinical victory over Okamura sets up an intriguing clash with Canadian wildcard Bianca Andreescu. Andreescu, 24, won the 2019 US Open as a teenager but has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5996","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\/5996","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=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5998,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/5998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}