SERENA Nash, who is in the middle of her A-Levels at Immanuel College, is hoping she can learn some lessons from her defeat in the AEGON Ilkley Trophy yesterday.

The 18-year-old from Bradford, who only found out on Saturday that she had a wild card into qualifying for the $50,000 ITF Women's Pro Circuit event, lost 6-1, 6-3 to 21-year-old Turkish third seed Ons Jabeur in the first round.

Serena's mum Janet said: "It is only the second time that Serena has played a $50,000 qualifier, the other one also being on grass at Eastbourne last month (lost 6-2, 6-3 to 33-year-old Greek former world No 14 Elena Daniilidou, who has reached the last 16 at Wimbledon, the Australian Open and US Open).

"But she held her own in many ways. It is just subtle things like slice and what shots to play when that were the difference but she did well in the rallies."

Nash, who is taking media, history and English literature, is going to Oklahoma University in the autumn.

The men's doubles, meanwhile, is looking particularly strong with a world-ranking cut-off of 274.

Former Wimbledon doubles champion Jonny Marray from Sheffield is only seeded fourth with Canada's Adil Shamasdin, while the top seeds are Dutch duo Wesley Koolhof and Matwe Middelkoop and second seeds are Marcos Demoliner (Brazil) and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (Pakistan).

Demoliner won the Ilkley title last year with New Zealander Marcus Daniell.

In the men's singles, Keighley-born Scot Jonny O'Mara has received a wild card and will face top seed Jordan Thompson (Australia).

In the last year, O'Mara has reached the final of ITF Futures events at Heraklion (losing to Glasspool), the semi-finals of Sharm El Sheikh and Tipton and quarter-finals in Doha (twice), Heraklion and Setubal.

Now the Scot, who was a semi-finalist in the GB Pro-Series event at Ilkley in 2013, has the chance to test himself at a higher level.

Meeting the top seed is a fate that befell Stockport's Liam Broady last year, who lost 6-4, 6-4 to Tunisia's Malek Jaziri.

This year Broady, whose sister, former Woodhouse Grove pupil Naomi, broke into the world's top 100 earlier this year, meets Slovenia's Grega Zemjla.