Ross Connolly made a good start to his bid to become the first home-grown winner of the Ilkley Open since Gary Henderson in 1994.

The seventh seed defeated Rogan Egerton from North Wales 6-4, 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals of the British Tour event.

"I got off to a bit of a sluggish start but I played okay," said the 19-year-old, who has been honing his skills at the famous Bollettieri Sports Academy in Florida.

"I should have had the second set wrapped up earlier but I got broken when I was 5-2 up and that dragged it out a bit."

Connolly broke the Prestatyn man's serve at 4-3 in the first set and again mastered the Egerton serve in the first and seventh games of the second set.

The winner added: "He had a big forehand and I was not serving a high enough percentage of first serves in."

Connolly's opponent in the last eight is Sussex-based second seed James Cuthell, a 19-year-old from West Worthing.

Yorkshire's challenge in the women's singles is over, however, ending with the quarter-final defeat of 19-year-old Carina Dalton from Sheffield.

The Oxford University student, who is seeded sixth, looked to have the edge when she won the second set from third seed Vicky Jones from Durham and Cleveland.

But the Yorkshire Championship runner-up failed to get in enough first serves in the deciding set, when her double-fisted backhand also deserted her.

In contrast, Jones, 18, from Sunderland, who attends the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, hardly missed a first serve or a return of serve in the final set in triumphing 6-0, 4-6, 6-2.

Dalton became the third Yorkshire player to exit the women's singles after the second-round defeats of Hull's Victoria Sharpley and Keighley's Jennifer Nemeth.

Skipton Girls' High School pupil Nemeth also bowed out of the girls' 18 and under singles, going down 6-2, 6-3 in the quarter-finals to Wrexham's Lucy Scott.

There is still hope in the boys' 16 and under and 14 and under singles, however, Ilkley's Sam Horrix facing fellow Ilkley members in the finals. He defeated fellow home club member Hassan Abbas 6-1, 6-2 in the 16 and under quarter-finals and now faces Andrew Gill, from Northallerton.

In the 14 and under semi-finals, Horrix trounced Alwoodley's Adam Lesiak 6-0, 6-0 and meets Great Ouseburn's Hayden Andrew in the decider. There was a defeat though for Ilkley's Catrin Morgan in the girls' 12 and under singles final 6-4, 6-2 to Cheshire's Amanda Murray.

And in the equivalent boys' event, Rawdon's Joshua Mitten went down 6-3,

6-2 to Hull's Oliver Kaye. Gabriel Hopkins and Aidan Richardson of Ilkley lost 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 in the final of the boys' 14 and under doubles to Andrew and Michael Peretti

3-6, 6-1, 6-3.