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Eastbourne: Johanna Konta through to face Petra Kvitova

British number one Johanna Konta has beaten Lesia Tsurenko to set up a last-16 meeting with two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova at Eastbourne.

Konta, who will be seeded for the first time at Wimbledon this year, overcame her Ukrainian opponent 7-6 (7-4) 6-1.

Kvitova won her only previous meeting with Konta, coming through 7-5 6-3 in the US Open last 16 in September.

Top seed Agnieszka Radwanska and former world number one Caroline Wozniacki also advanced to the third round.

Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia was forced to retire from her match against Poland's Radwanska because of illness while trailing 6-4 2-1.