It was a great day for the Brits at the Rothesay Nottingham Open on Thursday as all four matches on centre court went the way of home favour, underneath hot sunny skies at Highfields, Katie Boulter, Harriet Dart, Jodie Burrage and Andy Murray all won by two straight sets to make the Quarter Finals of the competition.

Headliner Murray, playing in the men’s Challenger event as a top seed wildcard, had beaten Belgium qualifier Joris De Loore in the first round and saw off Frenchman Hugo Grenier in an entertaining match late afternoon, in front of a packed vocal crowd, eventually winning 6-3, 7-5 to set up a last eight match against Swiss number eight seed Dominic Stricker who had earlier saw off another Brit in Ryan Paniston.

In the women’s singles the day started with Leicester born Katie Boulter the new British number one, against Ukrainian Daria Snigur in an entertaining battle which ended 7-5, 6-3, the first set lasting an hour and fifteen minutes alone.

In contrast, Harriet Dart who Boulter will play against in her last eight match, made a flying start against her opponent Anhelina Kalinina the current world number 25, Dart winning the first set 6-0 in just 22 minutes before seeing a much tighter second set through 7-5.

Finally a win for Jodie Burrage against Polish world number 21 Magda Linette, 7-5, 6-3, setting up a tie against another Pole in Magdelina Frech who saw off Lin Zhu in round two.

Friday’s order of play will see Burrage and Frech kick off proceedings on centre court before Dart and Boulter do battle in an all England affair. Another entertaining looking match see’s Heather Watson take on Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland before Murray takes on Stricker to close the days play.

Full Quarter Final line-up:

Women’s singles: Alize Cornet v Elizabeth Mandlik, Jodie Burrage v Magdelina Frech, Heather Watson v Viktorija Golubic, Harriet Dart v Katie Boulter.

Men’s singles: Andy Murray v Dominic Stricker, Nuno Borges v Sho Shimabukuro, Arthur Cazaux v Gabriel Diallo, Dominik Koepfa v George Loffhagen.

In the doubles they’ll be guaranteed British participants in the final of the mens tournamant after quarter finals wins for Liam Brody and Jonny O’Mara as well as Toby Samuel and Connor Thomson who’ll play against each other in the semis. The other tie includes another British double act in Jacob Fearnley and Johannus Monday who yesterday saw off the Indian pairing of Prasanth and Chandrasekar, they’ll play Robert Galloway of USA and JP Smith of Australia for a place in the final.

In the women’s competition Harriet Dart and Heather Watson have booked their place in the last four, they’ll play either Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls also of the UK, or Asia Muhammad (USA) and Giuliana Olmos (Mexico) who play their Quarter Finals match later today.

The winners will take on either Scandinavians Eikeri and Neel who have already qualified for the semi final, or the winners of the last remaining Quarter Finals match, between Xu and Danilina against Dzalamidze and Santamaria.

*Article provided by Daniel Peacock (Editor).

*Main image @dannypea Andy Murray celebrates beating Hugo Grenier.