Katie Boulter at 2025 Australian Open: Next match, ranking and how to follow as British number one eyes third round

Katie Boulter will look to continue her fine start to the 2025 tennis calendar at the Australia Open this month. The British No.1 in women’s singles enjoyed an excellent season on the WTA and ATP Tours last year with titles in Nottingham and San Diego. Boulter is in tremendous form ahead of the Australian OpenGetty However, Boulter came unstuck at major tournament level and failed to go beyond the second round in any of the four Grand Slams. The 28-year-old got her 2025 season off to the perfect start by guiding Great Britain into the United Cup quarter-finals in Sydney. Boulter is now in Melbourne for the Open, where further success down under will be particularly special. The Leicester-born star recently announced her engagement to fellow tennis star and Australia’s world No.9 Alex de Minaur. Katie Boulter at 2025 Australian Open: Ranking As it stands, Boulter is currently ranked as the 23rd-best women’s singles player in the WTA rankings. She achieved the feat in November following her run to the Hong Kong Open final – her third final of the year. Despite losing 6-1, 6-2 to top seed Diana Shnaider, Boulter moved into the world’s top 25 for the first time which is where she still resides. Boulter has held the title as the British No. 1 player in women’s singles since June 2023 after overhauling Emma Raducanu. Raducanu earned the top position after her US Open triumph in 2021 but has been hampered by injuries since. The pair both had direct entry into the main draw at the Australian Open, alongside Sonay Kartal and Jodie Burrage. Boulter is eyeing a career-best run at a Grand Slam Boulter won in Nottingham last yearGetty Katie Boulter at 2025 Australian Open: Next opponent Boulter beat Canada’s Rebecca Marino 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 in a tough first round clash. She will now face Russian Veronika Kudermetova in the second round after she swept past Olivia Gadecki 6-1, 6-1. Kudermetova is ranked No. 77 in the world and builds her game around a dominant first serve. Should Boulter win, she will face either Beatriz Haddad Maia or Erika Andreeva in the third round while a meeting with fourth-seed Jasmine Paolini could await in the fourth round. Boulter has never made it to the second week of Grand Slam and will be eager to do so this month after being handed a favourable draw. Boulter vs Kudermetova will take place later this week and an exact start time will be confirmed in due course. Boulter and De Minaur are considered to be one of tennis’ power couplesGetty Katie Boulter at 2025 Australian Open: How to follow The Grand Slam is being held at Melbourne Park and play will begin on Sunday, January 12. It will run until the men’s final on Sunday, January 26 with Boulter hoping to be in the women’s final taking place the day before. Main-day sessions each day begin at midnight UK time, until the semi-finals [Melbourne is 11 hours ahead of GMT]. The night sessions will then get underway at 7:30am UK time. The showpiece event will be shown live on Eurosport. You can also stream every match of the 2025 Australian Open live and on-demand on discovery+. Entertainment & Sport pass prices on discovery+ are £6.99/month.  For all streaming info, visit here. talkSPORT will also have updates on Boulter throughout, and talkSPORT.com will have all the reaction from her journey. To tune in to talkSPORT through the website, click HERE for the live stream. You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM. Boulter avoided fiancé De Minaur while teaming up with Charles BroomGetty Katie Boulter at 2025 Australian Open: What has been said? Boulter survived an intense encounter with Marino to help set a new British record at the Australian Open. For the first time, six British players have won first-round matches but Boulter had to work extremely hard to join Jack Draper, Emma Raducanu, Jodie Burrage, Harriet Dart and Jacob Fearnley in round two. The 22nd seed was on the ropes early in the third set against her 98th-ranked opponent but, with fiancee Alex De Minaur heading from his own victory on Rod Laver Arena to cheer her on, Boulter dug out the win. “That was way too stressful for me,” said Boulter. “I would have preferred a much easier match. “She came out firing today. That was massively mental for me. “I’ve been playing great tennis on the practice court and I really wanted to put that on the match court but sometimes when you try to force it it doesn’t work and I found that out tonight. “I’m just happy I found a way and sometimes that’s what these first-round matches are about.”

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Katie Boulter at 2025 Australian Open: Next match, ranking and how to follow as British number one eyes third round

Katie Boulter will look to continue her fine start to the 2025 tennis calendar at the Australia Open this month.

The British No.1 in women’s singles enjoyed an excellent season on the WTA and ATP Tours last year with titles in Nottingham and San Diego.

Boulter is in tremendous form ahead of the Australian Open
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However, Boulter came unstuck at major tournament level and failed to go beyond the second round in any of the four Grand Slams.

The 28-year-old got her 2025 season off to the perfect start by guiding Great Britain into the United Cup quarter-finals in Sydney.

Boulter is now in Melbourne for the Open, where further success down under will be particularly special.

The Leicester-born star recently announced her engagement to fellow tennis star and Australia’s world No.9 Alex de Minaur.

Katie Boulter at 2025 Australian Open: Ranking

As it stands, Boulter is currently ranked as the 23rd-best women’s singles player in the WTA rankings.

She achieved the feat in November following her run to the Hong Kong Open final – her third final of the year.

Despite losing 6-1, 6-2 to top seed Diana Shnaider, Boulter moved into the world’s top 25 for the first time which is where she still resides.

Boulter has held the title as the British No. 1 player in women’s singles since June 2023 after overhauling Emma Raducanu.

Raducanu earned the top position after her US Open triumph in 2021 but has been hampered by injuries since.

The pair both had direct entry into the main draw at the Australian Open, alongside Sonay Kartal and Jodie Burrage.

Boulter is eyeing a career-best run at a Grand Slam
Boulter won in Nottingham last year
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Katie Boulter at 2025 Australian Open: Next opponent

Boulter beat Canada’s Rebecca Marino 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 in a tough first round clash.

She will now face Russian Veronika Kudermetova in the second round after she swept past Olivia Gadecki 6-1, 6-1.

Kudermetova is ranked No. 77 in the world and builds her game around a dominant first serve.

Should Boulter win, she will face either Beatriz Haddad Maia or Erika Andreeva in the third round while a meeting with fourth-seed Jasmine Paolini could await in the fourth round.

Boulter has never made it to the second week of Grand Slam and will be eager to do so this month after being handed a favourable draw.

Boulter vs Kudermetova will take place later this week and an exact start time will be confirmed in due course.

Boulter and De Minaur are considered to be one of tennis’ power couples
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Katie Boulter at 2025 Australian Open: How to follow

The Grand Slam is being held at Melbourne Park and play will begin on Sunday, January 12.

It will run until the men’s final on Sunday, January 26 with Boulter hoping to be in the women’s final taking place the day before.

Main-day sessions each day begin at midnight UK time, until the semi-finals [Melbourne is 11 hours ahead of GMT].

The night sessions will then get underway at 7:30am UK time.

The showpiece event will be shown live on Eurosport.

You can also stream every match of the 2025 Australian Open live and on-demand on discovery+.

Entertainment & Sport pass prices on discovery+ are £6.99/month.  For all streaming info, visit here.

talkSPORT will also have updates on Boulter throughout, and talkSPORT.com will have all the reaction from her journey.

To tune in to talkSPORT through the website, click HERE for the live stream.

You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.

Boulter avoided fiancé De Minaur while teaming up with Charles Broom
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Katie Boulter at 2025 Australian Open: What has been said?

Boulter survived an intense encounter with Marino to help set a new British record at the Australian Open.

For the first time, six British players have won first-round matches but Boulter had to work extremely hard to join Jack Draper, Emma Raducanu, Jodie Burrage, Harriet Dart and Jacob Fearnley in round two.

The 22nd seed was on the ropes early in the third set against her 98th-ranked opponent but, with fiancee Alex De Minaur heading from his own victory on Rod Laver Arena to cheer her on, Boulter dug out the win.

“That was way too stressful for me,” said Boulter. “I would have preferred a much easier match.

“She came out firing today. That was massively mental for me.

“I’ve been playing great tennis on the practice court and I really wanted to put that on the match court but sometimes when you try to force it it doesn’t work and I found that out tonight.

“I’m just happy I found a way and sometimes that’s what these first-round matches are about.”