Banks one of three Britons to progress in qualifying

Britain's Amarni Banks fought backmost to hit erstwhile world number 10 Kristina Mladenovic and scope nan 2nd information of Wimbledon qualifying.

The 21-year-old harnessed her easy powerfulness to hit France's Mladenovic 4-6 6-4 6-2 astatine Roehampton.

She will look American 26th seed Kayla Day connected Wednesday arsenic she bids to scope a Grand Slam main tie for nan first time.

Banks was 1 of 3 British women to make it done nan first information of qualifying.

Hannah Klugman, nan 15-year-old who won nan prestigious Orange Bowl inferior title successful December, took conscionable 56 minutes to hit Croatia's Petra Marcinko 6-2 6-2.

Klugman is bidding to scope nan main tie of a elder Grand Slam for nan first time, having competed successful nan juniors astatine Wimbledon past year.

She was awesome against world number 265 Marcinko, who is 358 places supra her successful nan world rankings.

Sonay Kartal was besides among nan British winners, nan 22-year-old coming done 7-6 (8-6) 6-4 against Suzan Lamens of nan Netherlands.

Kartal will look China's Wei Sijia next, while Klugman takes connected Czech Linda Fruhvirtova.

American erstwhile world number 21 Amanda Anisimova breezed past Greece's Valentini Grammatikopoulou 6-2 6-3 arsenic she continues her return to nan sport.

Anisimova took an eight-month break successful 2023 aft struggling pinch burnout, external and her intelligence health.

Players person to triumph 3 matches to unafraid a spot successful nan main tie astatine Wimbledon, which originates connected Monday.

There were 8 British women successful qualifying action connected Tuesday.

Britain's Emily Appleton was narrowly beaten 3-6 6-3 6-4 by France's Elsa Jacquemot, while Amelia Rajecki fell 6-4 4-6 6-4 to seventh seed Arina Rodionova of Australia.

Turkey's Ipek Oz saw disconnected Mingge Xu 6-4 6-4 and Croatia's Tena Lukas won 6-7 (6-8) 6-4 7-6 (10-8) against Katy Dunne.

Fifteen-year-old British subordinate Mika Stojsavljevic mislaid 6-3 6-4 to Selena Janicijevic of France.