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| Venue: Nottingham Tennis Centre Dates: 12-18 June |
| Coverage: Live sum regular connected the BBC Red Button, BBC Sport website & app |
Centre Court astatine the Nottingham Open was the country of a ascendant British show arsenic Andy Murray, Katie Boulter, Harriet Dart and Jodie Burrage each secured wins to scope the quarter-finals.
Top effect Murray, 36, continued his Wimbledon preparations with a 6-3 7-5 triumph implicit France's Hugo Grenier.
Meanwhile, Boulter and Dart volition conscionable successful an all-British matter connected Friday.
Burrage secured her archetypal WTA quarter-final with an awesome triumph implicit satellite fig 21 Magda Linette.
Heather Watson is besides successful the past eight, making it the archetypal clip 4 British women person ever reached the quarter-finals of the aforesaid WTA Tour event.
Murray, having claimed his archetypal rubric connected location ungraded since Wimbledon successful 2016 with his triumph astatine Surbiton past week, secured an aboriginal interruption to instrumentality power of the archetypal acceptable against Grenier.
The Frenchman came retired firing successful the 2nd with immoderate almighty serving but the Scot rallied with a clasp to emotion to gully level astatine 5-5 earlier pursuing up with a interruption and past serving retired the lucifer to unafraid a straight-set win.
He is ranked 44th successful the satellite and is trying to unafraid a top-32 seeding for Wimbledon, which begins connected 3 July.
"I consciousness similar I moved well, I'm recovering well," said Murray.
"It's been a batch of matches for maine - I'm an aged lad present truthful it takes maine a spot longer to retrieve but I'm feeling good."
Murray joins chap Briton George Loffhagen successful Friday's quarter-finals and said it's breathtaking to spot truthful galore location players having occurrence astatine the tournament.
"It's brilliant, particularly for the women, they've done good this week. A batch of them person had wounded problems but they've each started the grass-court play well. Let's support it going into the weekend."
Anther Briton, Ryan Peniston, ranked 201 successful the world, mislaid 6-4 6-2 to Switzerland's fig 8 effect Dominic Stricker.
Boulter and Dart acceptable up all-British quarter-final
New British fig 1 Boulter came done a tricky brushwood with Ukrainian fortunate loser Daria Snigur successful consecutive sets to scope her 3rd quarter-finals astatine the Nottingham tournament.
Boulter, ranked 126 successful the world, bushed 21-year-old Snigur 7-5 6-3 aft becoming the highest ranked subordinate successful Britain erstwhile she reached the semi-finals of the Surbiton Trophy past week.
Boulter squandered 7 interruption points successful the archetypal acceptable but was persistent and went connected to capitalise connected Snigur's hampered movement, owed to a genu wounded she received attraction for midway done the 2nd set.
"It was an implicit battle, I'm truly arrogant of myself," said Boulter.
"I enactment my bosom connected the enactment and played arsenic good arsenic I could. A mates of those games were ridiculous. It was truthful tough."
Dart was up adjacent and acceptable up a quarter-final against her compatriot with a 6-0 7-5 triumph implicit Ukrainian 5th effect Anhelina Kalinina, ensuring astatine slightest 1 British pistillate volition beryllium successful the semi-final.
The 26-year-old dominated the archetypal acceptable and did not driblet a azygous crippled arsenic Kalinina, fig 25 successful the world, struggled to get going.
But aft Dart received attraction to what seemed similar a lower-back strain, she was made to enactment for the second, going a interruption down but battling backmost to unafraid a precocious interruption of her ain and progress.
"I anticipation to play much sets similar that [first set]," said Dart. "I knew I had to travel retired firing - I'm conscionable truly pleased to beryllium capable to travel done successful 2 sets."We're [she and Boulter] bully friends but fto the amended subordinate triumph tomorrow!"
Burrage secured what is possibly 1 of the champion wins of her vocation with a 7-5 6-3 triumph implicit Australian Open semi-finalist Linette and volition look Magdalena Frech for a semi-final place.
"When we are each doing good it truly pushes everyone on, it is simply a spot daunting going connected aft the different 2 [Boulter and Dart] won, it was a small spot of pressure," said Burrage.
"But successful the aforesaid enactment it did assistance arsenic well, but erstwhile you're retired connected tribunal you're conscionable wanting to win."
Doubles occurrence for Brits
In the men's doubles, British duo Liam Broady and Jonny O'Mara secured a comfy 6-1 6-4 triumph implicit India's Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni to scope the semi-finals.
Joining them successful the past 4 are chap Britons Jacob Fearnley and Johannus Monday, who bushed Anirudh Chandrasekar and Vijay Sundar Prashanth 7-6 (7-4) 6-3, and the British pairs could conscionable successful the rubric lucifer should they some triumph their semi-finals.
In the women's doubles, British brace Watson and Dart bushed Spain's Cristina Bucsa and Japan's Makoto Ninomiya 6-4 7-6 (9-7) arsenic they hole for their respective quarter-finals connected Friday.
Meanwhile successful the Libema Open successful the Netherlands, Britain's Neal Skupski and Dutch team-mate Wesley Koolhof moved into the quarter-finals of the men's doubles.
The top-seeded pairing, who mislaid successful the US Open last past year, overcame American brace Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow successful a final-set necktie interruption 7-6 (7-4) 6-7 (5-7) 10-3.
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