The sun shone and the action was red hot at Hopwood for day two of the Women's English Open, part of the LET Access Series. Players from many of the 37 countries represented at the tournaments played incredible golf on a perfect, summer's day. Top honours for the day went to English golfer, Thalia Martin, who produced a remarkable course record round of 63 that included eight birdies in a row from the seventh. The Indonesian-born player, who carded a first-round 71, has taken the co-lead of the tournament with Iceland’s Ragga Kristinsdottir (65) at 10-under overall. Trailing by one shot at nine-under for the tournament is Czechia’s Tereza Zapletal Kozeluhova (69), who is chasing her maiden professional win. After birdieing 11 of her first 15 holes, Martin was on track to shoot 61 but bogeys on holes 16 and 17 put a slight blemish on what was otherwise a sensational round of golf. “I was trying to push for double digits, but we’ll still take nine-under,” Martin joked. “I did not know (my score) until hole 16, then I started to realise when I looked up my scorecard to check, which I probably shouldn’t have done because I was doing so well not knowing. But yeah, just trying to stay in the present moment and just doing process and not think about the outcome. I had no idea what score I was on for the front nine, but I knew I was doing well because I’m seeing the putts drop. So that’s always a good sign. I think I’ve been working a lot on my putting and reading the greens and pace. Today just seemed to click. I just managed to see the line a little bit better today. My approach shot’s always been good. Playing her first LETAS event since the 2025 Women’s Irish Challenge, Martin, who primarily plays on the LET, finds herself in a familiar position having won her first major title at the Madaef Golfs Ladies Open last year. She will be trying to take her mind outside of golf ahead of tomorrow’s final round. Kristinsdottir, who fired nine birdies to move herself into the co-lead, is no stranger to this position having already recorded two top-five finishes this season.She walked onto the 18th tee with a one-shot advantage but made her second bogey of the day on the final hole to drop back into a share of the lead. “Approach play, iron play, out of this world,” she said. “Every shot I hit felt to the right side of my dispersion. I never hit more than four or five metres for birdie and you’re gonna make some of them. I got two bonus ones, made two long ones, other than that just iron play. I hit it maybe three feet closer than yesterday, felt like I could go low yesterday and it happened today.” The Icelandic golfer is hoping to notch her second LETAS victory exactly one year after her Vasteras Open win. Kristinsdottir missed out on her LET card by one stroke after coming eighth in the LETAS Order of Merit standings last season. The year-end top seven players will earn full status on the LET for the following season. “I honestly wasn’t sure how I was gonna feel coming into this year, it took me a while to recover. I played Q-school not feeling the best mentally. I took another month off just to completely reset again and didn’t practice that much until March. I know my game is there. It’s just when it happens, it happens. I’m at that state now and if it happens this year, amazing. If not, we’ll just keep on going.” Hot on their heels is Kozeluhova, 25, who mixed five birdies with two bogeys to shoot 69 after her first-round 66. The Czech golfer is chasing her maiden professional victory. “The first nine was really good, I was struggling from the tee box, my drivers weren’t the best, but I managed to always end up being on the green or make a sand save.“The second nine wasn’t the best. I think I was feeling the pressure that I had to like play good. I wasn’t feeling my swing at all, I just felt like I was so tight, so those shots weren’t the best. But I’m glad that I managed to hit minus three so tomorrow I still have a chance to play for the top spot.”  At eight-under for the tournament is England’s Billie-Jo Smith (70) in solo fourth place, while the trio of Austria’s Isabella Holpfer (68), Australia’s Hannah Reeves (68) and United Arab Emirates’ Hyeonji Kang (68) are another stroke back in a tie for fifth. In tied-eighth at six-under overall, the quarter of England’s Rebecca Earl (68), South Korea’s Ayeon Yang (66), Italy’s Maria Vittoria Corbi (70) and Sweden’s Sofie Bringner (71) are four shots behind leaders Martin and Kristinsdottir. The cutline was set at even-par with 52 players set to return tomorrow, although Order of Merit front-runners Lauren Holmey (76) and Natalie Armbruester (75) both missed the cut at one-over overall. The final round of the Women’s English Open resumes at 8am (local time) on Friday morning with the final pairing of Martin and Kristinsdottir to tee off at 11.20am.