Katie Boulter and Emily Appleton will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Rothesay Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on Court 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Katie Boulter who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Katie Boulter is the pick to win this match.
Katie Boulter -> 1.195
Emily Appleton -> 4.65
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Prediction and head to head Katie Boulter vs. Emily Appleton
This will be the 2nd time that Katie Boulter and Emily Appleton fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Boulter (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they played each other, Boulter won 5-7 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in the Beaubourg back in March 2023.
Katie Boulter
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-23 | 24-12 | 3-6 | 3-2 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-20 | 22-12 | 1-1 | 3-3 | 10-4 | 4-0 |
| 2022 | 29-18 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 16-7 | 9-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-15 | 12-9 | 5-1 | 7-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 126, Boulter will start her run in Nottingham after she played her last match in the W100 Surbiton where she lost 6-3 6-2 to Wickmayer in the semifinal on the 10th of June.
Katie has an overall 22-10 win-loss record in 2023, 3-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the year was conquering the title the W60 Canberra where she defeated Jodie Anna Burrage in the final 3-6 6-3 6-2.
Talking about her overall career, The Brit has an overall 270-165 record. She has a positive 36-27 record on grass.
Previously in Nottingham
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2018 and 2021. See her history.
Emily Appleton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-28 | 0-4 | 8-8 | 16-11 | 6-4 | 1-1 |
| 2023 | 29-31 | 6-3 | 9-14 | 9-9 | 3-4 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 20-22 | 4-4 | 3-9 | 13-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-11 | 6-8 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 420, Appleton reached the 1st round after defeating Katrina Scott 4-6 7-64 6-3 and Emiliana Arango 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, Appleton had a good straight sets win against Arango (6-1 6-1). During the match Appleton scored 64 points vs Arango’s 44. The Brit was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Appleton recorded 4 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Emily Appleton conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Appleton put 74% of her first serves in, winning 75% (30/40) of the points behind her 1st serve and 36% (5/14) on the 2nd serve. The Brit broke Arango 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Emily started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points she played.
The Brit’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the W25 Nottingham.
Emily has an aggregate 16-17 win-loss record in 2023, 3-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Nottingham
Appleton has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
LWW
L Tennis Scores in Nottingham
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- Lin ZhuZhu – Alycia ParksParks (7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Heather WatsonWatson – Jule NiemeierNiemeier (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Sonay KartalKartal (6-3 5-7 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Donna VekicVekic – Cristina BucsaBucsa (6-2 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tak Khunn WangKhunn Wang – Andrey ChepelevChepelev (7-68 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Aziz DougazDougaz (7-64 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Davide GaloppiniGaloppini – Francesco FerrariFerrari (6-4 7-69) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aaron Cortes AlcarazCortes Alcaraz – Alexis MusialekMusialek (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matteo MartineauMartineau – Marco De RossiDe Rossi (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit – Pablo BeldaBelda (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jules OkalaOkala – Stefano PlataniaPlatania (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico BertuccioliBertuccioli – Yan BondarevskiyBondarevskiy (7-5 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francois-Arthur VibertVibert – Anis GhorbelGhorbel (7-5 6-74 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Katie SwanSwan – Alize CornetCornet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Elizabeth MandlikMandlik (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Madison BrengleBrengle – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Olivia GadeckiGadecki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Harriet DartDart – Rebecca MarinoMarino (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Emily AppletonAppleton – Katie BoulterBoulter (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Lin ZhuZhu (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tatjana MariaMaria – Heather WatsonWatson (2-1) – H2H and prediction
