The British No 1 ranking will change hands when the WTA Rankings is updated next week as Emma Raducanu will replace Katie Boulter at the top.<\/p>\n
But despite the fight, the competition between Britain\u2019s top two women\u2019s players remains healthy and they have vowed to continue to support each other, although Boulter has told Raducanu<\/a> \u201cit\u2019s kind of my turn\u201d to turn up the heat.<\/p>\n Boulter had been Great Britain\u2019s top-ranked woman in the rankings since June 2023 when she took over from Raducanu following the 2021 US Open winner\u2019s two-year spell as No 1.<\/p>\n But Boulter\u2019s early loss at the Queen\u2019s Club event, coupled with Raducanu\u2019s run to the quarter-final will result in them swapping places.<\/p>\n Raducanu, who is projected to rise to No 36 after the tournament, stated: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s the most important thing for me. I think having Katie in front, it was nice for me to have something to chase.<\/p>\n \u201cNow I\u2019m sure she\u2019s going to enjoy that with me. The grass season is still young, and so is the rest of the season.<\/p>\n \u201cBut regardless, we have a healthy competition between us two. I want to see her do well; she wants to see me do well.\u201d<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu seals a huge win at Queen\u2019s Club \u2013 but she still has one big problem<\/a><\/p>\n Katie Boulter makes an Alex de Minaur confession as she sets a huge Grand Slam target<\/a><\/p>\n Boulter, meanwhile, will is expected to slip five spots to No 39 as she was also defending 250 points from her title run at the Nottingham Open a year ago.<\/p>\n \u201cTennis is a funny one,\u201d the three-time WTA Tour singles title winner said. \u201cSome people lose 250 points one week, some people lose zero, some people lose 100. It\u2019s something that happens every single week.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very well aware that I lost 250 this week, because Nottingham is next week and the scheduling\u2019s been different. Of course I personally want to be getting my ranking moving in the right direction.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very happy for her to be British No 1. But at the same time, it\u2019s going to be fun for me to chase her now, and I think she\u2019s been doing that for a while. Now it\u2019s kind of my turn.\u201d<\/p>\n Raducanu, of course, will move even further ahead of Boulter in the rankings if she reaches the semi-final at Queen\u2019s Club.<\/p>\n But it won\u2019t be easy as she will face top seed Zheng Qinwen in the quarter-final.<\/p>\n The world No 5 overcame a second-set slump to beat American Mccartney Kessler in the second round.<\/p>\n \u201cQinwen\u2019s obviously top 10 in the world, had an amazing year, great last couple of tournaments last few months on the tour, and I think she\u2019s very dangerous, top seed, definitely the favourite,\u201d Raducanu said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think I have had two good matches here, and looking forward \u2026 I\u2019m just trying to stay as focused as I possibly can.\u201d<\/p>\n The post What Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter had to say about British No 1 ranking<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The British No 1 ranking will change hands when the WTA Rankings is updated next week as Emma Raducanu will replace Katie Boulter at the top. But despite the fight, the competition between Britain\u2019s top two women\u2019s players remains healthy and they have vowed to continue to support each other, although Boulter has told Raducanu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}WTA News<\/h3>\n