{"id":4968,"date":"2026-01-02T13:39:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:39:51","slug":"katie-boulter-turns-to-michael-joyce-former-coach-of-maria-sharapova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=4968","title":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter turns to Michael Joyce, former coach of Maria Sharapova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boulter split from Biljana Veselinovic late last year after a three-year partnership in which she won three WTA titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old is currently the British number four having fallen out of the world&#8217;s top 100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boulter has won only three tour level matches since Wimbledon and tore an abductor in her final event of last year in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a result she just missed out on a main draw place at the Australian Open. She is currently the third alternate, and without sufficient withdrawals, will need to win through qualifying at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But there is still plenty Boulter wishes to achieve, as she made clear in an interview with BBC Sport in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Going forward with a new coach, one thing I&#8217;m very clear on is that they are going to be someone who has a lot of experience in how to make it to the very top level of this game,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been ranked as high as 23 and I know I can get back there. I don&#8217;t think my level has gone anywhere, I think the consistency needs to improve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My goal is not to be ranked 50, 40, 30, 20 &#8211; we&#8217;ve been there. The goal is to be inside 20.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Instagram, Boulter welcomed 2026 as &#8220;the best year of her life&#8221; &#8211; she is due to marry Australia&#8217;s world number seven Alex de Minaur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And she made it clear she will not be mourning the year just gone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Adios 2025. Don&#8217;t let the door hit you on the way out,&#8221; she posted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boulter split from Biljana Veselinovic late last year after a three-year partnership in which she won three WTA titles. The 29-year-old is currently the British number four having fallen out of the world&#8217;s top 100. Boulter has won only three tour level matches since Wimbledon and tore an abductor in her final event of last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}