Eastbourne International: Britain's Katie Boulter beaten by Petra Martic in first round

Katie Boulter is ranked 88 successful the satellite pursuing her rubric triumph successful Nottingham 2 weeks ago

British fig 1 Katie Boulter suffered a first-round exit astatine the Eastbourne International arsenic she mislaid to Croatia's Petra Martic.

It is Boulter's 2nd consecutive first-round decision aft an aboriginal exit astatine the Birmingham Classic past week.

In the men's draw, Liam Broady bushed Jan Choinski 6-3 6-4 successful an all-British encounter.

Broady needed conscionable 1 interruption to instrumentality the archetypal acceptable and went an aboriginal interruption up successful the second, earlier Choinski forced the acceptable backmost connected serve.

World fig 147 Broady instantly responded with a interruption of his ain and served retired the lucifer to acceptable up a last-16 necktie with Sweden's Mikael Ymer.

Boulter, who has received a wildcard to play astatine Wimbledon adjacent week aft her Nottingham Open triumph, started good against Martic but mislaid her service successful the 5th crippled with a agelong forehand.

Four interruption points came and went for the Briton successful the adjacent crippled and Martic, who has featured successful the 4th circular astatine Wimbledon 3 times, yet clinched the archetypal set.

The upwind made for hard serving conditions for some players and Boulter recovered herself having to prevention 2 interruption points astatine 5-5 - the archetypal with a floated driblet changeable and the 2nd with a stunning forehand down the enactment nether pressure.

Yet that bully enactment went to discarded arsenic Boulter smacked a backhand into the nett to springiness Martic a important interruption that allowed her to service retired the match.

Watson retired aft fortunate loser opportunity

Following the occurrence of Britons Harriet Dart and Jodie Burrage astatine Eastbourne connected Monday, compatriot Heather Watson missed her accidental to widen her Wimbledon preparations aft losing 6-3 6-4 to Italy's Camila Giorgi.

Watson, ranked 149th successful the world, was handed a fortunate loser accidental aft Birmingham semi-finalist Anastasia Potapova withdrew with a close enarthrosis injury.

However Giorgi, looking to bounce backmost from her first-round decision by Venus Williams successful Birmingham past week, was successful power throughout, redeeming six of the 7 interruption points she faced connected her mode to victory.

Earlier, Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, caller from winning the Birmingham Classic connected Sunday, continued her Wimbledon build-up with a 6-4 6-3 triumph implicit Czech subordinate Barbora Strycova.

Ostapenko, who volition look Dart successful the adjacent round, was owed to play defending champion Petra Kvitova successful her opener, but the Czech satellite fig 9 pulled retired pursuing her triumph astatine the German Open connected Sunday.

Following Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina's withdrawal from the tournament, France's Caroline Garcia replaced her arsenic the apical effect and comfortably secured a 6-1 7-5 triumph implicit American Madison Brengle.

Last year's Wimbledon runner-up Ons Jabeur cruised done to the past 16 with a 6-3 6-2 triumph against Italy's Jasmine Paolini.

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