Boulter might have sat on the high of British girls’s tennis for 2 years however, with Raducanu wanting again to someplace close to her greatest, we may see the 2 battling for the highest spot in British girls’s tennis regularly.
Boulter is wanting ahead to the problem.
“It’ll be enjoyable for me to chase her now, and I believe she’s been doing that for some time. Now it is sort of my flip,” she mentioned.
“I am very glad for her to be British primary.”
Boulter, who received the title in Nottingham this time final 12 months, had been making an attempt to succeed in a seventh quarter-final on grass.
There have been loads of positives to absorb a primary set which she mentioned featured “a number of the greatest grass court docket tennis” she has performed.
She frequently brought about issues behind her first serve – one thing she had recommended she can be engaged on within the build-up to this match after struggles earlier this week – and went a double break up on her solution to taking the primary set.
However by the point the umpire suspended play due to a downpour, Boulter was down a break at 4-1 within the second set and in bother on serve once more.
After a 20-minute rain delay, she returned to have her serve damaged for a second time and, regardless of recovering one break, she couldn’t stop Shnaider from forcing a deciding set.
Boulter as soon as once more got here underneath strain within the opening recreation, wiping out three break factors to safe the maintain as issues on serve returned with a vengeance.
She saved extra break factors in her subsequent service recreation, solely to double-fault and concede the break.
From there, Boulter struggled to regroup and went down a double break.
She couldn’t discover a means again as Shnaider arrange a gathering with American second seed, and Australian Open champion, Madison Keys.
