The battle to be the British women’s number one is an intriguing sub-plot which will continue over the grass-court season.<\/b><\/p>\n
Emma Raducanu replaced Katie Boulter as the nation’s leading player following her run to the Queen’s quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Raducanu has climbed one place to 36th in the world, with Boulter dropping five places to 39th after losing in the second round.<\/p>\n
And it’s not only Raducanu and Boulter in the mix. British number three Sonay Kartal is ranked just below them at 50th.<\/p>\n
“It’s nice [being British number one], but I wouldn’t say it’s the most important thing for me,” said Raducanu, whose first spell came after she won the 2021 US Open.<\/p>\n
“It was nice for me to have something to chase, and I’m sure Katie’s going to enjoy that with me. <\/p>\n
“The grass season is still young, and so is the rest of the season. We have a healthy competition.”<\/p>\n
Boulter, 28, had a two-year grip on the position but was leapfrogged by 22-year-old Raducanu when the rankings were released on Monday.<\/p>\n
While both players insist it is not a huge deal – their focus remains on the bigger picture of climbing the world rankings – it is a storyline which will rumble into Wimbledon at the end of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The battle to be the British women’s number one is an intriguing sub-plot which will continue over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-189386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114693923441375291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}