Katie Boulter choosing ‘between body and ranking’ for Australian Open main draw place

This year has been a challenging one for Boulter.

She won only 14 Tour-level main-draw matches and recently split with coach Biljana Veselinovic after a three-year partnership in which she won three WTA titles.

“Biljana is an incredible coach, and an extremely good human as well, which makes things very difficult,” Boulter said.

“I think it was just time. I think we both felt that it was the right thing to do. We’ve accomplished so much together.

“I’m still going to be spending a lot of time talking to her, I think she’s a huge part of my team regardless.”

The search for a new coach is well under way, seeking someone who has high-level experience as Boulter still believes she can be a top-20 player.

“Going forward with a new coach, one thing I’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,” she said.

“I’ve been ranked as high as 23 and I know I can get back there. I don’t think my level has gone anywhere, I think the consistency needs to improve.

“My goal is not to be ranked 50, 40, 30, 20 – we’ve been there. The goal is to be inside 20.”