Sonay Kartal, Lily Miyazaki and Sonay Kartal through to Ilkley Trophy second round

Fellow wildcards Sonay Kartal and Lily Miyazaki will face eachother in the second round of the LTA's Ilkley Trophy in West Yorkshire. Miyazaki revelled in first-round victory over former top ten star Kristina Mladenovic. Ad/> The 26-year-old, who benefits from the LTA's NTC Access programme, which is for players ranked 100-200 in singles and 31-100 in doubles, providing cost-free access to courts on all three surfaces, coaching, trainers and the LTA's tournament bonus scheme, beat the second seed 6-7 (4) 6-4 6-4.

Tennis'Tennis needs Alcaraz to replace big three' — Tiriac praises 'future world No. 1'AN HOUR AGO Mladenovic is a significant scalp for the Surrey star, the Frenchwoman having reached a career high of tenth on the WTA singles rankings and also being a nine-time doubles Grand Slam champion — recently winning the French Open alongside Caroline Garcia. And Miyazaki, who switched citizenship from Japan earlier this year having lived in Britain for 16 years, believes the victory is a sign of growing confidence on grass.

She said: «It was a really tough match. There wasn't much in it, every set was really close. I think we were both serving really well, but I think in the end it literally came down to a few points.

Either of us could have taken it, so I'm really happy that I got through. »I think it's the biggest win of my career. Last week in Nottingham I also had my first top 100 win [against Magdalena Frech], but Kiki, she's a top player, she's been top ten in the world so I'm really happy with the result today.