It’s a breeze for Katie Boulter, but the Brit expects an upgrade in security at Wimbledon

Katie Boulter is expecting an upgrade in security for her next match at Wimbledon after managing to keep her focus through the disruption of a Just Stop Oil protester invading her court.

The British number one joined in a clean up operation of the playing surface during an eight-minute stoppage in the tiebreak, and was then able to turn round a 2-4 deficit to emerge a 7-6 6-2 winner over Australia’s Daria Saville.

‘I’m pretty sure there will be a reaction to what’s been happening, and there will be more security in place or whatever they need to do to ensure that it doesn’t happen again,’ said Boulter after a first round win that spanned two days.

Players, ballkids and officials had to remove confetti and jigsaw pieces, and afterward Boulter promptly reeled off the next nine points to change the whole momentum of the contest.

‘It was obviously a shock to the system, there were a lot of emotions because I didn’t really know what to do in that situation,’ she said.’ It’s not something I’ve been through before. I kept my head really well in that time frame and stayed in the moment, it was a crucial point.’

Saville later admitted that the incident, which happened when they were changing ends in the middle of the first set shootout, had thrown her off when she looked to be in the ascendancy.

‘I was like ‘Oh, my God, why on my court out of all of them?’ and I’m the worst with being able to refocus. It was actually nice to just focus on picking up the pieces rather than thinking and stewing on okay, what am I going to do next?’

Neither player said they felt physically threatened during what was the second of two invasions on Court 18, which has unreserved seating.

Boulter is through to play Bulgaria’s Viktoriya Tomova, while five other Brits in action all lost. Andy Murray on Thursday faces a crunch second round against number five seed Stefanos Tsitsipas.