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Britain's Katie Boulter secured her fourth WTA Tour title with a three-set triumph over Tamara Korpatsch at the Ostrava Open on Saturday - with fiancee Alex de Minaur hinting at a possible house purchase in the aftermath. The British number four, who had slipped to 120th in the global rankings, staged a strong comeback from a set down in the final to defeat German Korpatsch 5-7, 6-2, 6-1.

Boulter and De Minaur have been in a relationship for several years - emerging as one of the most prominent tennis couples. The pair announced their engagement in late 2024 as Boulter took to Instagram to show off her ring.

And De Minaur has offered a new house hint on social media when congratulating Boulter on her title win. The post on Instagram saw the Brit holding the trophy she had just won with the caption: "Make that title numerooooo 4."

De Minaur replied: "LFG!!! Some more ornaments for the house." Boulter's impressive showing in the Czech Republic this week, following an inconsistent 2025 season, means she will re-enter the top 100 at number 84.

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The tennis star parted ways with her long-standing coach, Biljana Veselinovic, last year and brought on board Michael Joyce at the start of 2026. She dedicated the win to her new coach Joyce. The 29-year-old said: "We're only a few weeks into business right now, Mickey, but we've got one in the bag."

Boulter then joked: "And it was on your birthday week. Massive week for you, 53 years old, big one, so that was your present to you. I hope we can keep doing a lot of work."

Boulter has now secured victory in four of the five WTA finals she has contested, with her Ostrava triumph joining her back-to-back Nottingham titles in 2023 and 2024 and her San Diego success from two years ago. Although she surrendered three consecutive games en route to losing the opening set, and dropped the first game of the second, Boulter recovered to force a deciding set. From that point onwards, she dominated proceedings and broke the 30-year-old Korpatsch's serve on three occasions to claim her first silverware in almost 15 months.

She added: "To my stable team, my whole family back home... Everyone close to me knows how hard this last year has been for me. Today makes it all worth it."

The title win was in contrast with fellow Brit Emma Raducanu. The 2021 US Open winner was playing her first final since that famous win in New York five years ago.

But Raducanu was well beaten by Romanian Sorana Cirstea in the Transylvania Open final after a physicallly taxing semi-final win on Friday.