Lily Miyazaki was one of four British first round winners as the main draw matches in the Budgen W100 Shrewsbury tournament got under way.
Lily Miyazaki enjoyed a first-round victory over Emily Appleton in the Budgen W100 Shrewsbury tournament Pic: Richard Dawson Photography
Miyazaki, this week’s sixth seed, said: “It was a tough match because Emily and I know each other pretty well. We practise together, we play doubles together, so it’s always going to be a tough match.Currently ranked 163 in the world, Miyazaki enjoyed an impressive run at the US Open, winning four matches in New York, three of them in the qualifiers, before losing in the second round to Belinda Bencic at the end of August.
Miyazaki’s second-round opponent will be Klugman after the teenager, having emerged from the qualifying rounds, impressively got the better of Poland’s Gina Feistel 6-3, 7-5 in her first-round match. Anna Brogan’s hopes of joining her fellow Brits in round two ended with a 6-3, 6-4 defeat against Marina Melnikova, who will next face second seed Oceane Dodin, after the French player, who was Shrewsbury champion in both 2014 and 2015, overcame Katarina Stresnakova 6-0, 6-3.
Isabelle Lacy plays Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic, this week’s top seed, while Amarni Banks and Katy Dunne, having both received wild cards, play each other.
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