Boulter stated she is is anticipating “an absolute battle” in opposition to her Billie Jean Cup team-mate Dart.

“Taking part in a Brit within the UK, on the grass, is rarely a simple draw,” added Boulter.

The pair confronted one another on the Nottingham Open final month, with Boulter profitable the first-round tie in three units.

Talking earlier than Boulter’s victory over Maria, Dart stated: “We’re team-mates, we performed huge tournaments, we have grown up collectively, we have been shut.

“It is at all times going to be difficult, whoever I play, particularly if you play a fellow Brit. Nevertheless it’s nice to see that each one of us are doing nicely and placing us in positions the place we do get to play one another, hopefully extra so within the latter rounds.”

World quantity 94 Dart didn’t lose serve in opposition to Bai, breaking the 21-year-old within the tenth recreation to take the primary set, and solely a rain interruption delayed her progress.

“The previous couple of weeks I’ve had some actually good matches, some which have gone my manner, some that have not,” added Dart.

“For me it is simply having the ability to construct on it, try to play some good tennis. Right this moment I confirmed that. I used to be actually medical on the market – I used to be fairly happy with that.”

Dart and Boulter have been amongst 11 Britons in motion on Tuesday after Andy Murray introduced he wouldn’t play singles following his again operation.