Jamie Delgado reaches quarter finals of satellite tournament

Tennis

Warwickshire's Jamie Delgado, at 18 the youngest player in the men's satellite at Bramhall, Cheshire, yesterday beat the No 2 seed, Orlin Stanoytchev of Bulgaria, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals.

Sam Smith, from Essex, beat Russia's Natasha Egorova 6-7, 7-5, 7-6 in the quarter-finals of the LTA women's satellite event in Sunderland yesterday. She will meet the unseeded Shirli-Ann Siddall, of Dorset, in the semi- finals.

LTA MEN'S SATELLITE TOURNAMENT (Bramhall, Cheshire) Second round (GB unless stated): S Humphries (US) bt R Matheson 6-7 6-0 6-3; C Beecher bt B Cowan 7-6 6-2; J Alven (Swe) bt I Gaudi (It) 6-3 6-3; C Haggard (SA) bt M Ruah (Ven) 6-4 4-6 6-3; N Gould bt A Richardson 7-6 6-1; S Groen (Neth) bt A Foster 7-6 6-4; I Heuberger (Swit) bt D Draper 6-1 6-3; J Delgado bt O Stanoytchev (Bul) 6-3 6-4.

LTA WOMEN'S SATELLITE TOURNAMENT (Sunderland) Quarter-finals: S Smith (GB) bt M Egorova (Rus) 6-7 7-5 7-6; S A Siddall (GB) bt J Pullin (GB) 7-6 6-3; C Taylor (GB) bt A Linkova (Rus) 6-4 6-3; R Sandu (Rom) bt A Katsoulis (Gr) 6-4 3-6 6-4.