{"id":8871,"date":"2024-03-06T10:38:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T10:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=8871"},"modified":"2024-03-06T10:38:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T10:38:36","slug":"britains-boulter-emerges-victorious-over-kostyuk-in-wta-san-diego-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=8871","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Boulter emerges victorious over Kostyuk in WTA San Diego final."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Britains-Boulter-green-750x375-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Britains-Boulter-green-750x375-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Britains-Boulter-green-750x375-1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Los Angeles \u2013 Britain\u2019s Katie Boulter won the biggest title of her career on Sunday, defeating Ukraine\u2019s Marta Kostyuk 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 to claim the WTA San Diego Open title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 27-year-old player, whose only previous WTA crown came last June in Nottingham, reached the top thirty of the world rankings for the first time in her career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boulter upset third seed Emma Navarro of the United States in the semifinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kostyuk, ranked 34th, beat top seed Jessica Pegula to reach the final but struggled after winning the first set against the great Briton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After rain forced a delay in the final, Boulter handed the Ukrainian a hard-fought first set on her seventh set point after double-faulting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when she forced herself back from 5-2 to 5-5 in that set, Boulter\u2019s momentum was there and she took it into the second set. A fine forehand winner down the line put her 3-1 up and she broke again for a 5-2 lead en route to forcing a third set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boulter converted seven of her 11 break points and saved seven of the 11 she faced in a win that moves her up to world No. 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really didn\u2019t think I\u2019d be standing here with a trophy now, I really didn\u2019t,\u201d said Boulter, who was cheered on by her Australian friend Alex de Minaur, who had flown in after winning the ATP title in Acapulco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles \u2013 Britain\u2019s Katie Boulter won the biggest title of her career on Sunday, defeating Ukraine\u2019s Marta Kostyuk 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 to claim the WTA San Diego Open title.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8873,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871\/revisions\/8873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}