{"id":8558,"date":"2025-06-17T10:33:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/katie-boulter-reveals-nasty-online-abuse-death-threat\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T10:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:33:48","slug":"katie-boulter-reveals-nasty-online-abuse-death-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/katie-boulter-reveals-nasty-online-abuse-death-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Boulter reveals &#8220;nasty&#8221; online abuse, death threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>British tennis player Katie Boulter shares details of the &#8220;nasty&#8221; abuse and death threats she and her family have suffered.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the BBC, the 28-year-old message provided a screenshot of the message. Another included the death threat of &#8220;candles and co for the whole family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went to hell and lost the money my mother sent me,&#8221; read another message Boulter received.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every time you go to your phone, it becomes clearer,&#8221; Boulter told the BBC. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s just an indication of how vulnerable we are. I don&#8217;t know if this person is on the scene, if they&#8217;re nearby, if they know where you live or if they know anything like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0617%2Fr1507655_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0617%2Fr1507655_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0617%2Fr1507655_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0617%2Fr1507655_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The message containing the threat of death was sent to Boulter while she was playing a 2025 French open round match with Carol Monnett.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it comes to death threats, it&#8217;s not something you want to read right after an emotional loss. You&#8217;ll still get a lot of time after you win,&#8221; Boulter said.<\/p>\n<p>UK No. 2 also spoke about the explicit message she received and her concerns about the young players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had quite a bit of that (explicit images) that&#8217;s also a big problem. Young people shouldn&#8217;t really see something like that or send something like that,&#8221; Boulter added.<\/p>\n<p>Boulter will begin defending Nottingham&#8217;s open title on Tuesday to take on New Zealand&#8217;s Lulussan in the 32 round stages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Queen&#8217;s Club 2025: &#8220;Boultercanu&#8221; over? Emma Radukanu and Katie Boulter were knocked out by top seed<br \/>&#8211; Boulder knocked out Queen&#8217;s Club and lost first place<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British tennis player Katie Boulter shares details of the &#8220;nasty&#8221; abuse and death threats she and her family have suffered. Speaking to the BBC, the 28-year-old message provided a screenshot of the message. Another included the death threat of &#8220;candles and co for the whole family.&#8221; &#8220;I went to hell and lost the money my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2662,1176,2663,1175,2660,2661,442,24,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-8558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-abuse","9":"tag-boulter","10":"tag-death","11":"tag-katie","12":"tag-nasty","13":"tag-online","14":"tag-reveals","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-threat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}