Maya Joint, the young shooting star of Australian tennis, has earned another milestone win, defeating British superstar Emma Raducanu in front of her adoring home crowd at the Eastbourne International in a perfect pre-Wimbledon tonic.
Joint's nervy three-set win has taken her to another quarter-final on a day when six of her compatriots were reaching the final round of Wimbledon qualifying, with the tantalising prospect of 19 Aussies featuring in Friday's draw for the grass-court grand slam should they all win on Thursday.
The 19-year-old meteoric riser Joint is already in the main draw but could be joined by an even younger teen, world No.209 Emerson Jones, who must beat talented French world No.90 Diane Parry in the final round of qualifying to become the youngest Aussie to make the women's main draw since Ash Barty in 2012.
