THERE was no fairy-tale end to Sonay Kartal’s week in the Lexus Ilkley Trophy.

The British wild card, who matched her run to last year’s semi-finals in the $100,000 ITF Women’s World Tour event, was beaten 6-2, 6-1 by top seed Emma Navarro (United States) on Centre Court.

Kartal, who was trying to bridge a rankings gap of 235 places to world No 68 Navarro, will now have to go to the Wimbledon qualifying tournament next week at Roehampton, whereas wins yesterday and today would have been enough for her to gain a wild card direct into the Wimbledon main draw.

Mirjam Bjorklund, of Sweden, won a contrasting semi-final on No 1 Court, defeating defending champion Dalma Galfi of Hungary 6-7, 2-6, 6-3 in 2hr 18min.

The match turned on a controversial overrule by the chair umpire in the eighth game of the final set.

Galfi was serving at 30-30 when the baseline judge called a Bjorklund shot out but was overruled by the umpire, putting Galfi break point down when she felt she should have been game point up.

Galfi went on to lose her serve and the match, which was too much for her to bear considering that she had been on court for 4hr 10min in winning two three-setters in the last 16 and quarter-finals on Thursday.

The men’s final today will be between third seed Sebastian Ofner (Austria) and fourth seed Jason Kubler (Australia).

Ofner defeated Hungary’s Zsombor Piros 6-3, 6-0, while Kubler followed him onto Centre Court to beat in-form Frenchman Arthur Cazaux 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.

Both doubles finals have been decided.

Gonzales Escobar (Ecuador) and Alexsandr Nedovyesov (Kazakhstan) defeated third seeds John-Patrick Smith (Australia) and Robert Galloway (United States) 2-6, 7-5, 11-9 in a thrilling conclusion to the Centre Court action yesterday tea-time.

Meanwhile, on Court Two, Natalija Stevanovic (Serbia) and Nao Hibino (Japan) beat Jesika Maleckova (Czech Republic) and Maja Chwalinska (Poland) 7-6, 7-6 in the women’s doubles final.