Nice Britain’s Harriet Dart and Billy Harris have reached the ultimate spherical of qualifying for the Australian Open, however Heather Watson and Fran Jones have been crushed at Melbourne Park.
Third seed Dart, who has lately slipped out of the world’s high 100, fought again to beat Australian teenager Taylah Preston 6-7 (7-9) 6-1 6-2.
Harris, in the meantime, wanted simply 70 minutes to race previous Spain’s Carlos Taberner 6-1 6-2.
Dart and Harris are the final Britons standing in qualifying after Jones suffered a grueling 4-6 7-6 (15-13) 6-3 defeat by Switzerland’s Jil Teichmann and Watson misplaced 3-6 6-3 6-1 to American Varvara Lepchenko.
Dart will face Japan’s Nao Hibino on Thursday, whereas Harris, who made his Grand Slam main-draw debut at Wimbledon final yr, will play Poland’s Kamil Majchrzak.
Gamers should win three qualifying matches to achieve the principle draw of the match, which begins on Sunday.
Katie Boulter, Emma Raducanu, Sonay Kartal, Jodie Burrage, Jack Draper, Cameron Norrie and Jacob Fearnley all have direct entry into the principle singles draw.
In the meantime, Brazilian teenager Joao Fonseca moved one step nearer to reaching the principle draw of a serious for the primary time with a 53-minute 6-0 6-3 win over Coleman Wong.
Fonseca, 18, established himself as considered one of tennis’ rising stars by changing into the second-youngest winner of the Subsequent Gen ATP Finals in December.