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Katie Boulter pushed two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova all the way before losing in three sets in the last 16 of the Rothesay International Eastbourne.

The world No 127 had knocked out last year's Wimbledon runner-up Karolina Pliskova in the previous round to continue her impressive summer on grass, and claimed the opener on Centre Court to move within one set of the quarter-finals.

But Kvitova showed her class during the second and held her nerve in the decider at Devonshire Park to win 5-7 6-0 7-5.

Boulter will now turn her attention to Wimbledon, which starts on June 27.

British No 4 Boulter started slowly and a double fault in her first service game gave Kvitova an early break.

The 32-year-old looked on course to take the opening set before the Brit stormed back in fine fashion to reel off five consecutive games to clinch it 7-5.

Kvitova, a former world No. 2, upped her level in the next set and even a second brief stoppage for a medical emergency in the crowd could not halt her momentum as she served out a bagel to Boulter.

Admirably the home favourite regrouped but was decisively broken when she attempted to force a tie-breaker to lose in two hours and 23 minutes.

British men's No. 1 Cameron Norrie eased past Brandon Nakashima 6-4 6-2 earlier in the day for his first win on grass this summer.

Norrie had suffered a first-round exit at Queen's last week but produced an accomplished display against his American opponent, breaking serve three times.

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