Katie Boulter and the double partnership of Emma Raducanu at the Queen’s club championships ended on Wednesday when they fell to a 6-2, 7-5 defeat against the heads n ° 1 Lyudmyla Kicheno and Erin Roudliffe.
The duo – ranked respectively as No. 1 and No. 2 of British women, had been refused against compatriots Jodie Burrage and Sonay Kartal after being beaten by Kichenok and Roudliffe during the previous round.
The victory of Boulter and Raducanu on Xinyu Jiang in China and the Fang-Hsien Wu of Taiwan marked the first match of double competitive match on Monday that the couple played together and their lack of chemistry compared to Kicheno and Roudliffe.
Kicheno and Roudliffe set the tone early by winning a break at the first opportunity with a well -placed forehand in the middle of the field after a long rally.
They comfortably took the opening set to Andy Murray Arena, but the British duo fought more in the second.
They won their first break when Raducanu controlled Roudliffe on the net before the British are used to level the score at 4-4.
But Boulter and Raducanu then wasted three points of break in the next match while the heads of the starters won an improbable socket.
The duo, nicknamed “Boultercanu”, was made on the street which missed the opportunity while their opponents reserved their place in the third round after Raducanu sent a long time while Kichenok and Roudliffe won a deserved victory in western London.
Later Wednesday, Sonay Kartal failed against the American Amanda Anisimova in a single female.
Kartal, who won the greatest victory of his emerging career on Monday, was not up to Anisimova when she suffered a 6-1, 6-3 defeat in an hour and five minutes.
Anisimova will face compatriot Emma Navarro in the quarter -finals.
