Boulter wins LTA accolade

KATIE Boulter was named Female Player of the Year at the prestigious LTA Tennis Awards after claiming her first ever WTA 500 title in San Diego, writes Laura Howard of Sportsbeat.

- Laura Howard of Sportsbeat

The British No.1 was honoured at the 10th anniversary of the awards held at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton.

Boulter came back from a set down to defeat Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk 5-7 6-2 6-2 in the final in San Diego in March last year to clinch the biggest title of her career so far.

The Leicestershire star took that battling form back to the East Midlands where she defended her Rothesay Open Nottingham title, again going a set down before fighting back to beat Karolina Pliskova.

While she had to see off British competition in the form of Emma Raducanu in the semi-final, she was in great form alongside her compatriots in the Lexus GB Billie Jean King Cup.

Her victories over Laura Siegemund and Leylah Fernandez helped Britain to a second semi-final in three years.