Defending champion Katie Boulter reached the third spherical of the Nottingham Open with an assured win over Canadian qualifier Rebecca Marino.
The British primary broke early in each units in her 6-4 6-4 victory to arrange a quarter-final tie with both fifth seed Magdalena Frech or Tatjana Maria.
However regardless of her win, secured in a single hour 14 minutes, the third seed warned “it’ll take a while” earlier than she hits her prime type on grass.
Boulter is constructing in direction of Wimbledon, which begins on 1 July.
Having wanted greater than three hours to beat Harriet Dart within the first spherical, she obtained off to a dream begin on centre court docket by breaking Marino’s second service recreation.
She defended two break factors whereas serving for the opener earlier than taking the set with a wonderful forehand Marino might solely return into the web.
Within the second, she broke twice to steer 3-0 however then uncharacteristically misplaced her subsequent service recreation having been 40-0 up.
The world quantity 30 was unperturbed although, breaking Marino for a fourth time to win the match.
“I am very sensible, for me it is about bedding in a few of this momentum,” she added.
“I will take it one match at a time and see how far we will go.”
Afterward Wednesday British quantity 5 Heather Watson was crushed by Czech sixth seed and 2016 champion Karolina Pliskova 6-4 6-4.