BOLTON-based Jonny Marray provided the first big upset of the Hastings Direct National Tennis Championships at Bolton Arena.

The 12-year-old from Sheffield disposed of the No.2 seeded Davis Cup player Arvind Parmar 4-6 7-5 6-3 to line up a rare meeting with his doubles partner, Yorkshire's David Sherwood, in the quarter finals tomorrow.

"David and I both train here so it's our home turf," said Marray afterwards. "We played each other once four years ago and I'm surprised we haven't come across each other more often."

Parmar, who was tipped by many to take the men's crown this term, admitted he had made too many silly errors on crucial points against his younger opponent.

"I'm very disappointed but I find him difficult to play against. He doesn't give you any rhythm. You can hold your own service game, but I didn't play well on some important points," Parmar added.

Promising Wigan teenager Jane O'Donoghue continued her impressive charge for

the Hastings Direct honours overcoming Scotland's Karen Paterson to reach the

quarter-finals of the prestigious tournament with a 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 victory.

But O'Donoghue, who lost to Venus Williams at Wimbledon earlier this year,

was unimpressed with her own performance despite progressing another step to

a showdown with either Dorset's Anna White or Melissa Gibb, from Berkshire,

in the next phase.

"It wasn't a good performance on my part," admitted O'Donoghue. "But I'm

pleased to get through to the next round. Karen played really well and came

out all guns firing, so I'm hoping to play a bit better in the next round,

because I will have to.

"I struggled a bit with my serve and tried to serve a bit too big at times

when sometimes I didn't have to.

"No disrespect to Karen, but I didn't have to serve as hard I was doing,

because I was over-pressing a little bit.

"But that's just with confidence because I have been playing at quite a high

level and sometimes you go a little over the top. However, it's good to come

through the match - quite comfortably in the end."

O'Donoghue, who has been playing in tournaments in Italy, France and Hungary

over the last few months, is brimming with confidence that she can win the

title.

Already the Wigan player has jumped over 150 places in the rankings list.

O'Donoghue was placed 480 in her first ranking event of the year, but has now

risen to 292 after a string of impressive results.

"Now that my ranking is a little bit higher I can start to play the higher

tournaments, which will help my ranking improve even more," added O'Donoghue.

"Since Wimbledon I've been travelling quite a lot in Europe, so my ranking

has jumped up a lot, which is pleasing and hopefully it will keep going that

way. It's time for me to start making a big push.

"My aim is to be in the top 250 rankings, so I can then go out in January and

play the Australian Open qualifier, which would have been a big achievement

in a year to have come from 480.