Katie Boulter and Sonay Kartal will square off in the 2nd round of the Rothesay Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Katie Boulter who should win in 2 sets.
Katie Boulter -> 1.444
Sonay Kartal -> 2.77
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Prediction and head to head Katie Boulter vs. Sonay Kartal
This will be the 2nd time that Katie Boulter and Sonay Kartal face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Boulter (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on grass.
The last time that they locked horns, Boulter won 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in the W100 Surbiton back in 2023.
Katie Boulter
14 - 9win/loss
103
23
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22-22 | 9-14 | 8-4 | 1-1 | 4-3 | 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. 39, the Brit reached the 2nd round after beating Lulu Sun 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Sun (6-2 6-2). During the match, Boulter scored 62 points vs Sun’s 45. Boulter was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Boulter blasted 4 aces and she committed only 8 double faults. Katie Boulter conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Boulter put 53% of her first serves in, winning 84% (26/31) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. Boulter broke Sun 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).
Boulter has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 63% of her matches (292-173). 2-1 on grass in 2025. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Boulter has a compiled 51-29 win-loss record in the last years on grass.
Her best result of the season was winning the title the Paris where she beat Chloe Paquet in the final 3-6 6-2 6-3.
Boulter has a composed 14-9 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Nottingham
Sonay Kartal
16 - 12win/loss
70
44
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-20 | 12-10 | 6-5 | 1-1 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 53-9 | 30-3 | 0-0 | 15-2 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-18 | 7-3 | 11-6 | 8-4 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-12 | 10-3 | 5-1 | 15-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-1 | 5-0 | 10-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 50 (career-high), Kartal got to the 2nd round after defeating Leolia Jeanjean 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Sonay had a good straight sets win against Jeanjean (6-3 6-4). During the match Kartal scored 77 points vs Jeanjean’s 61. The Brit was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Kartal made 3 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Sonay Kartal lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kartal put 69% of her first serves in, winning 69% (29/42) of the points behind her 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the 2nd serve. Sonay broke Jeanjean 3 times after converting 27% of her break points (3/11).
Sonay has an aggregate 16-12 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Nottingham
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022 and 2023. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Boulter | Kartal |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 19 |
| Pts | 62-45 | 77-61 |
| Total Points | 107 | 138 |
| Winners | 26 | 29 |
| %Winners | 42% | 38% |
Both Boulter and Kartal played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Boulter and Kartal have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Boulter played 3 games less than Kartal. The Brit scored 26 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Sonay scored 29 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Boulter | Kartal |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 3 |
| 1st in | 31/59 | 42/61 |
| %1st in | 53% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 26/31 | 29/42 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 13/19 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 68% |
Boulter made 4 aces . Kartal recorded 3 aces . Boulter won 84% points on her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Kartal won 69% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 68% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Boulter | Kartal |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 3/11 |
| % Converted | 80% | 27% |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 |
| Saved | 4 | 3 |
| % Saved | 100% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Brit broke her opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Boulter was rock solid on her serve as she has never surrendered a single service game after saving 4 break points. Sonay broke her opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. Kartal conceded her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded.
| Boulter | |||
| R1 Sun | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 62-45 | 62-45 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 31/59 | 31/59 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 26/31 | 26/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 14/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kartal | |||
| R1 Jeanjean | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 77-61 | 77-61 | |
| Total points | 138 | 138 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 42/61 | 42/61 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 29/42 | 29/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 13/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 3/11 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Tennis Scores in Nottingham
- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-1 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Antonia RuzicRuzic (6-2 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ryota TanumaTanuma – Kelsey StevensonStevenson (6-2 1-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jonathan GrayGray – Rimpei KawakamiKawakami (6-3 5-4 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kazuma KawachiKawachi – Takuto NikiNiki (6-2 2-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alec AdamsonAdamson – Siddhant BanthiaBanthia (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Harry BourchierBourchier – Jesse DelaneyDelaney (6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Manish SureshkumarSureshkumar – Hao Yuan NgYuan Ng (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linda NoskovaLinda – Francesca JonesFrancesca (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
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