Reginald Brace at Wimbledon: Moore determined to realise her potential after impressive win

Away from all the tumult on the show arenas Yorkshire's Tara Moore was winning her own personal battle in the relative anonymity of Court 14.

Seventeen-year-old Tara, strongly touted as a member of the new wave in British women's tennis, entered the third round of the girls' singles by defeating Canada's Eugenie Bouchard 7-6 6-2 .

Last year her bid for stardom ended in dismay when she was forced to retire with a strained hip. Yesterday she dominated the contest with strong serving and a ferocious forehand which was a constant threat to her opponent.

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An impressive performance, this, from one of the rising youngsters who look a good bet for the future as British tennis strives to regain the pride which took a battering – Andy Murray excepted – in the first week of the Championships.

Her background is complicated. She was born in Hong Kong, the daughter of Monet and Ian Moore whose roots are in Doncaster. When her parents separated she lived in Doncaster with her grandparents in between six years at Nick Bollettieri's tennis academy in Florida.

At the moment, with her mother and stepfather in Hong Kong, she is based at a tennis centre in Gosport, Hampshire.

Her fitness has improved since a brush with the LTA on the subject, and she says she is ready, physically and mentally, to move on to the senior tour after her 18th birthday in August. Of Britain's current tennis travails, Moore says: "Every country goes through its struggles. We are all trying our hardest to improve things."

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Sturdy and positive, she looked every inch an emerging talent as she defeated the stylish Bouchard with a display which mocked the difference of over 400 places in their world junior rankings.

Yorkshire's other representative in the girls' singles, Sheffield's Jennifer Ren, had already lost in the first round to Aliaksandra Sasnovich from Belarus.

Moore takes her ambition, determination and talent into a last-16 meeting with Nigina Abduraimova from Uzbekistan. Laura Robson, the 2008 champion, is a prospective quarter-final opponent.

Robson battled past highly-rated American Krista Hardebeck to reach the last 16.

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Robson had won her opening match 6-0 6-1 against Japanese player Risa Ozaki and when she whitewashed Hardebeck to take the first set of yesterday's match it seemed another heavy win was coming.

However, 15-year-old Hardebeck, a year younger than Robson, made a much better fight of the second set and led

4-2 before eighth seed Robson, got her game together and reeled off four straight games to clinch a 6-0 6-4 victory.

Late in the evening Yorkshire lost its only survivor in the senior events when Jonny Marray and his Surrey partner Anna Smith were beaten by the Russian pairing of Dmitry Tursunov and Vera Dushevina

6-4 6-7 6-1 in the third round of the mixed doubles .

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Marray was his usual sharp-shooting self at the net and Smith was a quick-witted ally but they cracked in the third set against relentlessly consistent opponents.

An entertaining match held the attention of a big crowd around Court 12 until shortly after nine o'clock.

Sadly, it brought down the curtain on Marray's tournament which began with a five-set defeat in the men's doubles, partnering Jamie Murray, by the titleholders Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic. But the Sheffield man remains one of the best volleyers in the British game.

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