UNSEEDED Frenchman Vincent Millot has the chance to win a coveted Wimbledon men's singles wild card later today.

Firstly the compact left-hander knocked out top seed Jordan Thompson of Australia in a delayed quarter-final yesterday on No 1 Court in the AEGON Ilkley Trophy.

The world No 90 won the opening set 6-4 on Friday night but lost the next two sets 6-2, 6-3 on the resumption yesterday.

Then the 30-year-old Frenchman from Dijon, who is close to his career-high ranking of 144, put out the last remaining Briton Brydan Klein in a well-fought semi-final 3-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 that finished as the light began to fade on Centre Court. 

His opponent in this afternoon's final at 2.30 is Yen-Hsun Lu of Chinese Taipei.

The experienced Lu, who has missed much of this season due to an elbow injury, has been making great strides since he has become free from pain.

Lu, who is 32, has had a great series of pre-Wimbledon warm-up tournaments, losing to the extrovert Dustin Brown 7-6 (7-5) 6-1 in the final of the AEGON Manchester Trophy before winning the AEGON Surbiton Trophy last week, defeating Romanian Marius Copil 7-5, 7-6 (13-11) in the final.

At world ranked No 78, Lu already qualifies for Wimbledon with his world ranking, and therefore didn't need the Wimbledon wild card that he received for winning at Surbiton.

Among his victims in the last few weeks were 2015 AEGON Ilkley Trophy winner Denis Kudla 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in the Manchester semi-finals and Thompson 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) in the Surbiton semi-finals.

Earlier in the day at Ilkley yesterday, 26-year-old wild card Klein came through a well-contested final-set shootout 7-5 in the ATP Challenger Tour event against American Ryan Harrison, who again paid a heavy price for one sloppy service game.

Lu's passage was more straightforward as he defeated unseeded Argentinian Renzo Olivo 6-2, 6-4 and, on an outside court, Polish qualifier Michal Przysieszny 7-6 (7-4), 6-1.

The final of the ITF Women's Pro Circuit tournament, which is running alongside the men's tournament and is scheduled for 11.00,  is between hard-serving qualifier Rebecca Sramkova of Slovakia and second seed Evgeniya Rodina of Russia.

Sramkova, who at 19 is at a career-high ranking of 242 and is set to rise further still, had to win two matches yesterday in order to allow the schedule to catch up with itself after a rain-hit week.

The tall blonde, who has won seven matches in as many days at Ilkley in what is her first grass-court tournament of the year, beat China's Kai-Chen Chang 6-4, 6-1 and, in one of the matches of the tournament, the experienced Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (9-7).

Rodina, a quarter-finalist last week in Rosmalen in the Netherlands, beating former world No 1 Jelena Jankovic on the way, won both of her matches in straight sets yesterday, defeating sixth seed Richel Hoogenkamp (Netherlands) 6-0, 6-2 and Japan's Mayo Hibe 7-5, 6-1.

Both doubles finals were played yesterday, with Chinese fourth seeds Zhaoxuan Yang and Kai-Lin Zhang beating Belgium's An-Sophie Mestach and Australia's Storm Sanders 6-3, 7-6 (7-5).

Brazil's Marcelo Demoliner was unable to successfully defend the men's doubles title that he won last year with New Zealand's Marcus Daniell.

Second seeds Demoliner and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi were defeated 7-6 (7-5), 0-6, 10-8 in a switchback affair by top seeds Wesley Koolhof and Matwe Middelkoop of the Netherlands.

Today's finals are a sell-out.

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