{"id":317731,"date":"2025-10-20T04:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/317731\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T04:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:47:11","slug":"tennis-wta-tokyo-2025-katie-boulter-must-defend-semi-final-points-from-2024-as-she-faces-eva-lys-in-the-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/317731\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis | WTA Tokyo 2025 | Katie Boulter must defend semi-final points from 2024, as she faces Eva Lys in the first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBy Ros Satar<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Katie Boulter [Q] v Eva Lys [Q]<\/li>\n<li>H2H: First Meeting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TOKYO, JAPAN \u2013 Katie Boulter finds herself in a battle of the qualifiers for her Tokyo opener.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Katie Boulter [Q] v Eva Lys [Q] | H2H &amp; Match Fundamentals<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"300\"><strong>Katie Boulter [Q] v Eva Lys [Q]<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"301\"><strong>H2H: First Meeting<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"300\"><strong>WTA Tokyo<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"301\"><strong>Japan<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"300\"><strong>Hard (O)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"301\"><strong>Prize Money: $11,300<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"300\"><strong>First on Centre Court at 10:30am (2:30am BST)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"301\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/watch-sky-sports-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sky\/Now TV<\/a> <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/britwatchsports.com\/katie-boulter-gbr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katie Boulter<\/a> faces fellow qualifier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/wplayer.cgi?p=EvaLys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Eva Lys<\/strong><\/a> as she looks to defend her run to the semi-final last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also see |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/britwatchsports.com\/tennis-the-weekly-watch-20-october-2025-alexander-zverev-and-taylor-fritz-eye-atp-finals-berth-in-vienna-and-basel-wta-finals-line-up-to-be-confirmed-in-tokyo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennis | The Weekly Watch 20 October 2025<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tale of the Tape \u2013 Key Stats (Hard \u2013 2025)<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"201\"><strong>H2H:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\"><strong>Katie Boulter (WR 59)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\"><strong>Eva Lys (WR 44)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"201\"><strong>Tournament Previous Best<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\"><strong>SF (2024)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\"><strong>Debut<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"201\"><strong>1st Serve Return Points Won %<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\"><strong>32.6<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\"><strong>38.6<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"201\"><strong>Return Points Won %<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\"><strong>41.1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\"><strong>45.8<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"201\"><strong>Break Point Conversion %<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\"><strong>50.0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\"><strong>52.0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"201\"><strong>Break Points Saved %<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\"><strong>51.0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\"><strong>52.6<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"201\"><strong>Overall Service Points Won %<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\"><strong>54.2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\"><strong>56.1<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>The stats are indicative of the year Eva Lys has had, rising up the rankings sharply and reaching the quarter-final in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.connectedclubs.co.uk\/?wpam_id=24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-56592 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Connected-Clubs-Graphic.png\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Playing Styles &amp; Prediction<\/p>\n<p>The Asian swing continues to be challenging for Boulter. She has yet to get back-to-back main draw wins, although she has come through two rounds of qualifying to reach this round.<br \/>She is up against Lys who has enjoyed a run of successes since the summer, and certainly comes in a little more match sharp in this swing.<\/p>\n<p>Boulter will want to get off to a quick start with a lot of points at stake this week, but in this battle of the qualifiers it is quite tight to call.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prediction: Boulter in three sets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How to Watch\/Follow WTA Tokyo<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ros Satar Katie Boulter [Q] v Eva Lys [Q] H2H: First Meeting TOKYO, JAPAN \u2013 Katie Boulter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":317732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71642,51509,62,1464,67,132,68,159565],"class_list":{"0":"post-317731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-eva-lys","9":"tag-katie-boulter","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wta-tokyo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115404685072299589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}