British trio Heather Watson, Harriet Dart and Jodie Burrage all won in straight sets in the first round of the Nottingham Open.
British number two Watson, 30, set up a potential second-round tie with the country’s number one Emma Raducanu by beating Katie Volynets 6-4 6-2.
Dart, 25, defeated Croatia’s defending champion Donna Vekic 6-4 6-3 to end a four-match losing streak.
Burrage, 23, booked her place with a 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 win over China’s Zhu Lin.
US Open champion Raducanu, the world number 11, faces Viktorija Golubic in her first-round match on Tuesday.
In the men’s draw, British top seed and 2019 winner Dan Evans won his opener against France’s Enzo Couacaud 7-5 7-6 (7-3).
Evans, the world number 32, broke in the 11th game to edge the first set and dominated a second-set tie-break to progress.
Watson, competing at Nottingham for a sixth time, required a medical timeout to have her right thigh strapped after being broken by American Volynets as she served for the opening set.
But the world number 102 returned to clinch the seventh break of a tight first set before romping to a 5-0 lead in the second and closing out the match against her 20-year-old opponent.
“It was a relief to get over the line,” said Watson. “It was a weird one today. In the beginning of the first set I tweaked my hamstring and it was just getting worse and worse.
“I was dreading having to pull out. The trainer recommended not to continue but I said I have to. I really felt the support and that pushed me over the line.”
When asked about the prospect of potentially facing Raducanu next, she added: “I’ll be watching that, I’ll be following the scores. For me I’ll just take it as another match. I’m looking forward to it.”
Meanwhile, Dart, ranked 114th, recovered from falling behind a break in both sets against world number 90 Vekic.
She will next play fellow Briton Sonay Kartal or Italian Camila Giorgi.
In qualifying, British players Katie Boulter, Yuriko Miyazaki and Eden Silva secured their main draw places with comeback victories.
Boulter battled to a 3-6 6-2 6-3 win over Australia’s Maddison Inglis, while Miyazaki beat Australian Astra Sharma 3-6 6-2 6-0 and Silva overcame compatriot Sarah Beth Grey 5-7 7-5 6-2.
