Boulter cruises into Tokyo quarter-finals

British fig 1 Katie Boulter reached her 5th WTA Tour quarter-final of the play by sweeping speech Japan's Kyoka Okamura successful Tokyo.

The 29-year-old won 6-1 6-2 against 271st-ranked Okamura, who mislaid successful qualifying but was placed successful the main gully arsenic a fortunate loser.

Boulter is ranked 33rd successful the satellite aft the astir palmy play of her vocation and the spread betwixt the brace showed.

Possessing much powerfulness from the backmost of the court, and showing glimpses of craft, Boulter's greater consistency was excessively overmuch for Okamura to handle.

"I consciousness similar I'm playing immoderate bully tennis and trying to get done these matches," Boulter said.

Boulter is looking to decorativeness a play wherever she has won 2 WTA titles with a flourish and has reached her archetypal quarter-final since Eastbourne successful June.

The objective triumph implicit Okamura sets up an intriguing clash with Canadian wildcard Bianca Andreescu.

Andreescu, 24, won the 2019 US Open arsenic a teen but has been plagued by wounded problems since.

"Bianca is an unthinkable fighter, won a Grand Slam and is playing immoderate bully tennis," said Boulter, who has nary ranking points to support and could determination backmost into the apical 30 this week.

"It's a escaped plaything for maine astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth and I person thing to lose."

Boulter is seeded ninth astatine the WTA 500 lawsuit successful the Japanese capital, with China's Zheng Qinwen, Russian Daria Kasatkina, Diana Shnaider and Canada's Leylah Fernandez near successful the gully arsenic higher-ranked players.