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Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter doubles dream over with defeat at Queen's Club
Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter were defeated in the second round of the women's doubles at Queen's Club. They were beaten 6-2 7-5 by top seeds Lyudmyla Kichenok and Erin Routliffe in the first warm-up tournament ahead of Wimbledon. Advertisement The British No1 and 2 formed an unlikely partnership in the first event of the grass-court swing, as the prestigious Queen's hosted female players for the first time. Raducanu, the 2021 US Open champion, and Boulter, the British No1, had never played together previously, and their opening match on Monday marked just the second time that Raducanu had played doubles in her professional career. However, their collaboration in west London was brought to an end by Kichenok and Routliffe, who had beaten the pair's compatriots Sonay Kartal and Jodie Burrage in the opening round. Raducanu and Boulter started promisingly on Court One, forcing two break point opportunities in the opening game, but ultimately squandering both, and they were subsequently breached themselves in the following game, unable to dash the No1 seeds' break advantage for the remainder of the opening set. Advertisement Things went from bad to worse for the Britons, as they were broken once more to concede first blood. The second set was more closely contested as Raducanu and Boulter were cheered on by the home support, but they were broken to go down 3-1, with Kichenok and Routliffe finally converting a third break point. Dream duo: Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter (Getty Images) The British duo rallied and levelled proceedings at 4-4, breaking to love before holding comfortably, and they carried that momentum into the ninth game, earning four break-point chances yet passing them all up. That would be their undoing in the end, as they were fatally broken one final time with an hour and 25 minutes on the clock. Advertisement The pair's attentions will now turn back to the singles event, where they both progressed into the last 16. Raducanu beat Spanish qualifier Cristina Bucsa 6-1 6-2 on Tuesday, while Boulter came through in three sets against the tricky Australian Ajla Tomljanovic 7-6(4) 1-6 6-4 on the newly-named Andy Murray Arena. Heather Watson also progressed into the second round with a straight-sets victory over Yulia Putintseva, but there will be no clean sweep of British ladies in the last 16 after Burrage and Francesca Jones were both beaten. Kartal was dispensed of in short order as she fell 6-1 6-3 to American contender Amanda Anisimova, bringing her Queen's Club campaign to a prompt close. Raducanu will face the Slovakian Rebecca Sramkova on Thursday, while Boulter takes on fifth seed Diana Schnaider.
The Independent
11-06-2025
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- The Independent
Emma Raducanu keen to explore doubles partnership with Katie Boulter
Emma Raducanu revealed she hopes to keep exploring her doubles partnership with Katie Boulter after the pair bowed out in the quarter-finals at Queen's following a 6-2 7-5 defeat to Ukrainian Lyudmyla Kichenok and Erin Routliffe of New Zealand. The duo, who have been bestowed the portmanteau 'Boultercanu', earlier this week described the 'spontaneous' nature of their decision to pair up ahead of this tournament. After booking their place with a straight-sets opening victory over Wu Fang-Hsien and Jiang Xinyu on Monday, they faced a much tougher test in the top-seeded doubles pair. 'Katie made me feel really comfortable out there over the two matches and I hope we can team up again soon,' said 2021 US Open winner and former British number one Raducanu, who next faces Slovakian Rebecca Sramkova in the last 16 of the singles on Thursday afternoon. 'Given the quick turnaround from clay to grass it's great to get some extra matchplay on grass. The atmosphere again was unreal.' This is the first time in 52 years that women's tennis has been hosted at Queen's. It was just the third doubles match in Raducanu's career and only the second time she paired up with Boulter. The two still looked to be ironing out the finer points of their partnership when they clashed rackets in the first game and were down a break early on before Kichenok and Routliffe claimed the first set with another break. The Britons grew into the match more in the second set – amusingly interrupted for a moment so a security guard could rescue a bee that had wandered down the baseline – bouncing back from a 4-1 deficit to level and converting their first break point of the match en route. But they squandered an opportunity to turn the screw when they could not convert four break points in the next game, and – despite plenty of encouragement from the crowd – eventually fell to the favourites. Boulter opens the action at the larger Andy Murray Arena on Thursday morning at midday, when she faces fifth-seed Diana Shnaider. 'Me and Emma played some very good tennis over these two doubles matches and our level was really high,' she said. 'The support from the crowd was immense as well and we're really grateful that so many people came out to support us.' British qualifier Heather Watson's meeting with former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina immediately follows on the newly-renamed centre court before wild card Raducanu's clash with Sramkova. Sonay Kartal's Queen's campaign came to an end after the British wild card was defeated 6-1 6-3 by eighth seed Amanda Anisimova. Kartal, who confirmed she plans to participate at next week's Nottingham Open, said: '(Anisimova) didn't do too much wrong in that one. You just take it on the chin. The good thing about the grass is we are a couple of days and we're back at it again.' The British number three had booked her place in the second round on Monday after beating world number 16 Daria Kasatkina for the biggest win of her career. British doubles specialist Olivia Nicholls and her partner, Slovakian Tereza Mihalikova, lost 7-6 (3) 7-6 (5) to third seeds Ellen Perez (Australia) and Shuai Zhang (China).
BBC News
11-06-2025
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- BBC News
Boulter and Raducanu out of Queen's doubles
Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter's doubles partnership at Queen's came to an end after two matches with defeat in the Britons lost 6-2 7-5 to top seeds Lyudmyla Kichenok and Erin Routliffe in front of a packed court one at Queen's Club in London. They were outclassed in the first set as Ukraine's Kichenok and New Zealand's Routliffe, who have won three Grand Slam doubles titles between them, raced to a 4-1 lead before taking the set with another break three games and Boulter came from 4-1 down to level at 4-4 in the second best chance to turn the match around came in the following game, but they failed to convert four break saving three match points three games later, they succumbed to faces Rebecca Sramkova in the last 16 of the singles on Thursday and Boulter takes on fifth seed Diana can replace Boulter as British number one if she equals Boulter's results at Queen's, which is hosting a women's tournament for the first time in 52 has held the position for two years since she took over when 2021 US Open champion Raducanu slipped down the rankings following injury and inconsistent form.
