Katie Boulter replaces Emma Raducanu as British number one women's player

Katie Boulter mislaid to Belgium's eventual champion Belgian Yanina Wickmayer successful the Surbiton Trophy semi-finals past week

Katie Boulter has replaced Emma Raducanu arsenic the British fig 1 women's subordinate pursuing her tally to the Surbiton Trophy semi-finals.

Raducanu, 20, became British fig 1 aft her US Open triumph successful 2021 but has been hampered by injuries since.

"Naturally, I americium precise arrogant to articulation the women earlier maine who person reached that historical spot," Boulter said.

"However, my main extremity remains connected improving my ranking and continuing to enactment hard.

"It's going to beryllium an breathtaking summertime arsenic we are each precise adjacent successful the rankings."

Ranked 126 successful the satellite pursuing her 3 victories astatine Surbiton, Boulter is 2 places and 19 points supra Raducanu successful the latest standings, with Jodie Burrage (131), Katie Swan (134) and Harriet Dart (143) each adjacent behind.

Raducanu is acceptable to miss the summertime play - including Wimbledon - after undergoing manus and ankle surgery, which besides kept her retired of the French Open.

At Wimbledon past year, Boulter recorded the biggest triumph of her vocation successful beating erstwhile satellite fig 1 and 2021 runner-up Karolina Pliskova to scope the 3rd circular of a Grand Slam for the archetypal time.

Leicester-born Boulter archetypal picked up a racquet astatine the property of 5 earlier going connected to correspond Great Britain astatine eight.

Her breakthrough twelvemonth came successful 2018, erstwhile she won her archetypal ITF 25k and 60k titles, earlier reaching her archetypal WTA quarter-final astatine the Nottingham Open arsenic a wildcard.

She reached a career-high ranking of 82 successful 2019, nevertheless a accent fracture of the backmost kept her retired for six months and disrupted her progress.

Boulter has been drawn against compatriot Emily Appleton successful her archetypal lucifer successful Nottingham connected Tuesday, with coverage of this week's tournament disposable connected BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app and the BBC Red Button each day.

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