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British primary Cameron Norrie beat Brandon Nakashima to assert his first grass-court win of the 12 months and attain the Eastbourne quarter-finals.
The highest seed put in a effective serving efficiency to beat the American qualifier 6-4 6-2.
He might face both compatriot Dan Evans or Maxime Cressy subsequent.
There are a variety of Britons in motion on Wednesday, whereas American nice Serena Williams will take to the court docket within the girls’s doubles as soon as once more.
Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, and accomplice Ons Jabeur will play Shuko Aoyama and Chan Hao-ching from 16:50 BST.
Katie Boulter will face two-time Grand Slam champion Petra Kvitova as she seeks to again up her second-round win over final 12 months’s Wimbledon finalist Karolina Pliskova.
She is adopted by Jodie Burrage, who surprised prime seed and world quantity three Paula Badosa yesterday to arrange a gathering with the in-form Beatriz Haddad Maia.
Wildcard Jack Draper then takes to court docket in opposition to world quantity 4 Diego Schwartzman and Ryan Peniston faces Pedro Martinez.
Harriet Dart can even full her second-round match in opposition to tenth seed Jil Teichmann, which was halted attributable to dangerous mild with the match at a set apiece.
Norrie suffered an early exit at Queen’s final week however grew in confidence in opposition to Nakashima, backed up by his sturdy serving.
After lacking 4 break factors early within the first set, Norrie finally transformed one for a 3-2 lead, and rattled by way of his subsequent few service video games with ease.
He slipped to 0-40 down as he served for the set however fought again to parity, earlier than taking the set on a netted forehand from Nakashima.
The second set began in comparable vogue, with Norrie changing his fourth break level within the opening recreation of the set earlier than successful 4 video games in a row.
Nakashima saved a match level on his serve earlier than Norrie served out the match, clinching victory with a effective forehand winner.
