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Britain's Katie Boulter admits she feels she has to "decide between my physical condition and my world standing" as the scramble continues for a place in next January's Australian Open main event.

While the typical WTA Tour tournament schedule is finished, there are still standing points to be gained in Chile, Argentina, multiple sites and France.

The female participant roster for the initial Grand Slam of the forthcoming season will be determined by the global standings of the December cutoff, which could create a challenging situation for competitors approaching the selection threshold.

Injury Concerns

Ex- British number one Boulter tore an abductor in her final event of the year in Hong Kong last period, and is now weighing up whether to play in the WTA 125 Challenger event in Angers, the European nation, in the opening days of December.

Boulter's ongoing health concern, and the situation she would need to achieve at least three matches in Angers to improve her standing, means she may well eventually not playing.

Contrasting Methods

In comparison, men's competitors are not confronting the equivalent dilemma, as for the initial instance the men's Australian Open participant roster will be created from this week's positions, which is the ATP's standard season-concluding ranking date.

The change is aimed at deterring players from pursuing ranking points during what is basically the rest interval.

Professional Adjustments

This period has been a challenging one for Boulter.

She achieved merely 14 professional major tournament games and recently parted ways with coach Biljana Veselinovic after a lengthy collaboration in which she captured three WTA titles.

"Biljana is an outstanding coach, and an extremely excellent individual as well, which creates situations extremely hard," Boulter commented.

The pursuit for a new instructor is currently ongoing, searching for a professional who has top-tier expertise as Boulter maintains the belief she can be a world-class athlete.

Professional Aspirations

"Moving ahead with a replacement instructor, an important factor I'm absolutely certain on is that they are going to be an individual who has considerable experience in how to succeed to the peak performance of this sport," she stated.

"I've been ranked as high as twenty-three and I believe I can return there. I am not convinced my performance has gone anywhere, I believe the consistency needs to enhance.

"My aim is not merely to be positioned 50, forty, 30, 20 - we've achieved that. The aim is to be inside the elite group."