Katie Boulter with boyfriend Alex de Minaur at Wimbledon
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The British professional women’s tennis gang is tight: ‘Heather [Watson], Freya Christie… obviously Emma [Raducanu] – we all get on very well,’ says Boulter. Laura Robson, her former housemate, recently retired from professional tennis aged 28, but remains ‘the cook in the group. We do loads of barbecues over the summer.’
Boulter is partial, too, to the London scene: afternoon tea at Brown’s Hotel (‘My mum’s favourite place’); and, up until now, Le Boudin Blanc in Shepherd Market. The restaurant, just a kiss away from 5 Hertford Street, has been newly transformed into Noble Rot Mayfair, and Boulter is up for trying it out. But, like Jack Draper and Cameron Norrie, south-west London is her true stomping ground: ‘Laura is in Clapham, I’m in Putney, I’ve got a few friends in Wimbledon, one in Kew. In my heyday, way back when, we used to go to Northcote Records [the Battersea bar and live music mecca] and absolutely loved it.’ Still, she says she’s essentially ‘a real country girl’, who’s very close to her family, and ‘super-proud’ of her brother, James – ‘He messages me after every single match.’ As a talent agent, James is also familiar with stardust, working closely with Priyanka Chopra Jonas, whom he took to Wimbledon. ‘He works very, very hard,’ says Boulter.
Katie Boulter describes herself as ‘a very competitive person. That’s one of my biggest traits.’ Here, she’s dressed to win in a HOLLAND COOPER blazer and shorts and a WITH NOTHING UNDERNEATH shirt.
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