Britain was given a place as hosts after the Lawn Tennis Association stepped in to stage the event at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow and injured Emma Raducanu Lack the strength of nearly all the other teams.
They spoke confidently on Monday about their chances of advantage to spring a surprise. Boulter’s loss to the feisty Yulia Putintseva was a big crash. Dart beat Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.
The day ended on a positive note with debutants Alicia Barnett. Olivia Nicholls produce arrangements to defeat Rybakina and world doubles number 12 Anna Danilina 7-5 6-3.
They could still qualify with victory over Spain on Thursday will be a dead rubber if Kazakhstan wins their match against the Spaniards on Wednesday.
The Kazakhs could even claim the noisiest supporters, with their loyal band supporters out-performing the sparse British crowd.
Although Boulter is ranked nearly 80 places below Putintseva at 130, she has been a consistent big-match performer and appeared in a chance of a point in Britain.
The 26-year-old Leicestershire made cracking her enemy to love in her first two service games and lost her way in the second set deficit decider to a mountain to climb.
Britain was in the hope of causing an upset in their opening contest against Kazakhstan at the Billie Jean King Cup finals ending losses for Katie Boulter and Harriet Dart.
Britain was given a place as hosts after the Lawn Tennis Association stepped in to stage the event at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, especially without the injured Emma Raducanu lacking the strength of nearly all the other teams.
They spoke with confidence on Monday about their chances of using home advantage to spring a surprise Boulter’s loss to the feisty Yulia Putintseva was a big blow. Dart beat by Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.
Although Boulter is ranked nearly 80 places below Putintseva at 130 has been a consistent big-match performer who appeared of a most promising chance of a point in Britain.
The 26-year-old from Leicestershire created started breaking opponent to love in her first two service games and lost her way in the second set deficit in the decider proved far too big a mountain to climb.
It was only the second loss in 11 matches of the competition, the first coming against the same player in a tie at London Copper Box in 2019.
Boulter took time-out three games of the decider for treatment to her left calf and shrugged off any concerns about being fit for Thursday.
On the disappointing crowd, Boulter said: He felt like there was a good atmosphere. The Kazakhstanis bring drums to fight with the noise level because they want to win that one. I think they probably do.
Britain’s chance of an improbable run on home soil at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals took a significant blow on Tuesday night were outmatched by a strong Kazakhstan team falling 2-1 in their first tie at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow.
Yulia Putintseva recovered in the opening encounter from a set down before beating Katie Boulter and easing through 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Elena Rybakina puts the tie to a bed of overpowering Harriet Dart and marking her return to Britain for the first time since winning Wimbledon with a victory.
Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls registered their first BJK Cup appearance win for GB in the doubles dead rubber, beating Rybakina and Anna Danilina 7-5, 6-3.
Anne Keothavong said that it ended the guess is better than he would have hoped for said, the GB captain. After the singles matches, there s a natural disappointment because we lost the overall tie against Kazakhstan.
The first match of the two singles rubbers between the two second-ranked players always presented the bigger chance for Britain. Putintseva began as the clear favorite, but Boulter has built a reputation for rising to the big occasions at home.
She arrived in Glasgow with a 9-1 win-loss record in the BJK Cup tight three-set loss to Putintseva only defeat. Confidently Boulter started restricting Putintseva with her greater weight of shot. But Putintseva herself slowly began to dig. She tested rally tolerance with the exchanges that followed. She prepared Boulter to expose her movement with drop shots. Putintseva took control from the middle of the second set of the match and comfortably moved to victory.
At Wimbledon to breaking through she win the first grand slam title. Progress contains not been entirely smoother by Rybakina. She played on Tuesday, an excellent match night. From the beginning, inside the baseline, she served well and hammered the ball. Despite fighting hard to stay in touch throughout the second set, Dart did not have sufficient weight shot to keep up.
In Glasgow, the Billie Jean King Cup marks the second year of its new with 12 nations convening finals knockout format in one city rather than the traditional home and away ties. The opening day with the home team was an underwhelming spectacle attracting a sparse tepid crowd at the Emirates Arena.
