British wild card Francesca Jones missed out on the chance of back-to-back quarter-finals at Nottingham when she lost 6-1 6-3 to seventh seed Linda Noskova.<\/b><\/p>\n
On the day the 24-year-old discovered she had been awarded a wild card for the Wimbledon main draw, Jones battled hard against the world number 32, saving 20 break points in the match.<\/p>\n
But despite her efforts she was broken twice in each set as Czech Noskova set up a quarter-final against Slovakia’s Rebecca Sramkova, who knocked out fourth seed Yulia Putintseva 6-1 4-6 6-4.<\/p>\n
In the day’s other action at the WTA 250 event, Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska beat Croatia’s Antonia Ruzic 6-2 2-6 6-4 and Leylah Fernandez beat Cristina Bucsa 6-3 6-4.<\/p>\n
A Briton is guaranteed to reach the quarter-finals, with Katie Boulter facing Sonay Kartal in the last 16 on Thursday. Also hoping to advance is 17-year-old Briton Mimi Xu, who takes on sixth seed Magda Linette of Poland. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, at one of the other pre-Wimbledon grass-court events, defending champion Jessica Pegula was knocked out of the Berlin Open in the last 16 by Liudmila Samsonova, losing 6-7 (10-8) 7-5 7-6 (7-5) in a gruelling encounter that lasted three hours and 21 minutes.<\/p>\n
And there was an encouraging victory for two-time Wimbledon runner-up Ons Jabeur, who beat last year’s Wimbledon runner-up and fourth seed Jasmine Paolini 6-1 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals. <\/p>\n
It was Jabeur’s first win over a top-five player in almost two years – and the first time since February that she has won consecutive matches – and comes at an ideal time with less than a fortnight until the grass-court Grand Slam starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British wild card Francesca Jones missed out on the chance of back-to-back quarter-finals at Nottingham when she lost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-196075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114707874638335481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}