Harmony Tan marches on after exposing Katie Boulter’s weaknesses

  • Frenchwoman reaches Wimbledon fourth round 6-1, 6-1
  • Briton broken in first game and never gets into the match

After the joy of staring down a big name on the biggest stage and having the nerve to summon the best of herself when the moment required, Katie Boulter arrived for a new day on No 2 Court with the most nerve-racking situation a tennis player can navigate: an opportunity.

Never before had either Boulter or Harmony Tan reached the third round of a grand slam and only three ranking spots separated them, No 118 and No 115. They had usurped Karolina Pliskova and Serena Williams in the booming surrounds of Centre Court, yet here they stood in a match that would not have looked out of place at a low-level ITF event, but which was in the fourth round of a grand slam with £190,000 on the line.

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