Johanna Konta and Angelique Kerber progress at rain-hit Eastbourne

Johanna Konta set up a third-round meeting with French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko after a confident 6-2 6-2 victory over Sorana Cirstea at Eastbourne.

Konta, the fifth seed, proved too consistent for her Romanian opponent over one hour and 12 minutes of play in front of a large home crowd.

Konta, who suffered an early second-round exit at Birmingham last week, will be desperate to build further confidence ahead of Wimbledon beginning next week.

World No 1 Angelique Kerber secured a morale-boosting 4-6 6-1 7-5 victory over Kristyna Pliskova to book a third-round meeting with Spanish qualifier Lara Arruabarrena.

There were also notable three-set victories for Simona Halep and Svetlana Kuznetsova on Wednesday.

Halep, the second seed, prevailed against Duan Ying-Ying 3-6 6-3 6-2 to book a third-round clash with Tsvetana Pironkova after the Bulgarian defeated Monica Niculescu 6-0 6-4.

Kuznetsova, seeded 7th, beat Mona Barthel 4-6 7-5 6-2 and will next meet France's world No 13 Kristina Mladenovic who triumphed 6-0 6-4 Zhang Shuai.

Caroline Wozniacki earned a relatively comfortable 6-2 7-6 victory over Japan's Naomi Osaka to book a meeting with Russia's Elina Vesnina who beat Veronica Cepede Royg 6-3 6-3.

There was a surprise defeat for Garbine Muguruza as the Spanish 11th seed fell to Barbora Strycova 6-1 6-0.

Peng Shuai defeated 15th seed Timea Bacsinszky 7-6 (7) 2-6 6-4 and will next play world No 3 Karolina Pliskova in the third round.

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