Surrey tennis star Emily Appleton is riding a singles and doubles wave of momentum after two statement wins at the LTA’s Lexus Surbiton Trophy.

The 24-year-old powered through singles qualification and made it a hat-trick of victories on the manicured Surbiton lawns, overcoming Linda Fruhvirtova in straight sets.

In the afternoon, she teamed up with British No.4 Lily Miyazaki to dispatch No.1 seeded pair Naiktha Bains and Maia Lumsden 7-5 6-2 and make the women’s doubles quarter-finals.

And on the familiar grass-court surface, Appleton backed her abilities to continue her impressive run form.

“It’s really nice to be in the last 16. On grass, anything can happen with the Brits because we play so well on it and have grown up on it.

“I’m really pleased with the level we’ve brought so far and I’m just looking forward to the round of 16.

“I’m just taking it match by match but I’m really happy with the three wins I have already accumulated and I just want to keep pushing for more so the deeper I can get the better.

“It means a lot and it’s always important, the first match is always the toughest and then you just try and build momentum as you go.”

“Now I’ve got three in singles, it really helps and the confidence is building.”

In doubles, Appleton and Miyazaki have not played in an ITF tournament together for more than a year but gelled brilliantly in south-west London.

When she is not practising her serve or working on her returns, Appleton balances her tennis with an online business and enterprise in sport.

The Surrey starlet is not ruling out a career one day in sports media but, for now, is putting her all into rising up the British and world rankings as a singles and doubles threat.

She said: “Studying keeps my mind busy because there is so much dead time in tennis so it gives me something else to do other than tennis 24/7.

“I definitely want to keep playing tennis for a number of other years but post tennis I definitely want to get into something in the media.

“We’ve all had some matches so we treat the doubles as another match but I quite like playing singles before a doubles because I feel like I’ve warmed up my strokes to be ready on the first ball.

“Lily and I have played a lot together but not much recently but today it has paid off.”

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