Nottingham Open 2023 results: Andy Murray, Katie Boulter, Harriet Dart and Jodie Burrage win

Britain’s Andy Murray continued his fine form on grass to move into the Nottingham Open second round.

Britons Liam Broady and Arthur Fery also won their opening matches.

In the women’s event, Britain’s Katie Boulter, Harriet Dart and Jodie Burrage advanced but defending champion Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil was knocked out.

Three-time Grand Slam champion Murray claimed his first title on home soil since Wimbledon in 2016 with his win at Surbiton last week.

He is ranked 44th in the world and is trying to secure a top-32 seeding for Wimbledon, which begins on 3 July.

“I want to go as deep as possible here to try to get close to a seed for Wimbledon,” the Scot said.

“That’s my goal, so hopefully I can get a bit closer. The courts here are more similar to how Wimbledon plays in the second week so hopefully I can get to the second week of that.

“It was tricky, very blustery conditions. I’m serving well and that helped me out.

“The main thing is to get as many matches played in different conditions against different types of opponents. He was a really big server but I made it through.”

Fery, 409th in the world, came back from a set down against American Steve Johnson to win 4-6 6-3 6-3 in a match that could not be finished on Monday because of rain.

Broady also fought back in his match, defeating Japan’s Rio Noguchi 5-7 6-1 6-2.

Elsewhere, Jan Choinski lost 4-6 4-6 to France’s Hugo Grenier, Ryan Peniston beat Italy’s Mattia Bellucci 6-2 6-1and George Loffhagen beat Finland’s Otto Virtanen 6-3 7-6.