Line Vedel of Denmark and Finland's Jenni Kuosa share the lead by a single shot after round two of the Allianz Ladies Slovak Open.
Vedel carded four birdies and a single bogey in her round of 69, while Kuosa recorded the same score with five birdies and two dropped shots.
The 23-year-old Vedel revealed afterwards she had struggled with injury before the start of her round today.
"I'm pretty thrilled that I got to play because when I was on the range I had a really bad pain in my right shoulder so I was pretty worried that I wouldn't be able to play," she said on www.ladieseuropeantour.com.
The pair lie four under for the tournament, one ahead of England's Trish Johnson, Australian Rachel Bailey and Jessica Yadloczky of the United States.
Johnson, a 21-time tournament champion, mixed six birdies with two bogeys in her round of 68.
The Englishwoman said afterwards: "I hit some good shots early on and converted.
"I had three or four chances from six feet and made them, which made the difference."
Yadloczky had been six under through 14 holes of her second round, but dropped three shots in her last four holes to slip behind the leaders.
Four players are tied for sixth on two under, including Germany's Caroline Masson who had a tournament-low round of 67 today.
Scotland's Carly Booth is also in the group after a round of 72, along with Italian Veronica Zorzi and overnight leader Lucie Andre of France.
Collated second round scores & totals (Par: 72)
140 Jenni Kuosa (Fin) 71 69, Line Vedel (Den) 71 69
141 Trish Johnson (Eng) 73 68, Rachel Bailey (Aus) 71 70, Jessica Yadloczky (USA) 71 70
142 Lucie Andre (Fra) 69 73, Caroline Masson (Ger) 75 67, Carly Booth (Sco) 70 72, Veronica Zorzi (Ita) 70 72
143 Klara Spilkova (Cze) 70 73, Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 71 72, Nontaya Srisawang (Tha) 70 73, Frances Bondad (Aus) 72 71, Bree Arthur (Aus) 69 74, Connie Chen (Rsa) 75 68, Carin Koch (Swe) 70 73
144 Lee-Anne Pace (Rsa) 74 70, Margherita Rigon (Ita) 72 72, Nikki Garrett (Aus) 71 73, Karolina Vlckova (Cze) 73 71
145 Mireia Prat (Spa) 75 70, Caroline Rominger (Che) 73 72, Esther Choe (USA) 72 73, Stephanie Na (Aus) 72 73, Rebecca Artis (Aus) 73 72, Julie Greciet (Fra) 73 72, Holly Aitchison (Eng) 75 70, Anne-Lise Caudal (Fra) 74 71, Rebecca Hudson (Eng) 73 72, Becky Brewerton (Wal) 71 74, Emma Cabrera-Bello (Spa) 73 72
146 Kylie Walker (Sco) 73 73, Elisabeth Esterl (Ger) 73 73, Sophie Giquel-Bettan (Fra) 74 72, Marjet Van Der Graaff (Ned) 70 76, Danielle Montgomery (Eng) 73 73, Stacy Lee Bregman (Rsa) 72 74, Barbara Genuini (Fra) 71 75, Mikaela Parmlid (Swe) 74 72
147 Monique Smit (Rsa) 73 74, Hannah Burke (Eng) 77 70, Caroline Afonso (Fra) 75 72, Stefania Croce (Ita) 76 71, Maria Ohlsson (Swe) 70 77, Yu Yang Zhang (Chn) 75 72, Louise Larsson (Swe) 75 72, Caroline Westrup (Swe) 73 74, Helen Alfredsson (Swe) 74 73
148 Caroline Martens (Nor) 73 75, Marion Ricordeau (Fra) 74 74, Sophie Sandolo (Ita) 73 75, Stefanie Michl (Aut) 73 75, Zuzana Kamasova (Svk) 75 73
149 Danielle Mcveigh (Irl) 77 72, Matia Maffiuletti (Ita) 74 75, Sahra Hassan (Wal) 75 74, Kiran Matharu (Eng) 75 74, Lotta Wahlin (Swe) 75 74, Tandi Cuningham (Rsa) 73 76, Virginie Lagoutte-Clement (Fra) 74 75
150 Rachel Jennings (Eng) 73 77, Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 75 75, Rebecca Codd (Irl) 76 74, Alison Whitaker (Aus) 75 75, Benedicte Toumpsin (Bel) 71 79, Sophie Walker (Eng) 78 72
The following players failed to make the cut:
151 Eleanor Givens (Eng) 75 76, Liebelei Lawrence (Lux) 78 73, Ashleigh Simon (Rsa) 79 72, Carmen Alonso (Spa) 74 77, Celine Palomar (Fra) 80 71, Rachel Bell (Eng) 81 70, Sara Wikstrom (Swe) 79 72, Pamela Feggans (Sco) 72 79, Dawn Shockley (USA) 75 76
152 Kym Larratt (Eng) 72 80, Kendall Dye (USA) 77 75, Viva Schlasberg (Swe) 74 78, Lauren Taylor (Eng) 71 81, Chrisje De Vries (Ned) 77 75
153 Mianne Bagger (Den) 78 75, Martina Migliori (Ita) 77 76, Maria Beautell (Spa) 78 75
154 Laurence Herman (Bel) 75 79, Steffi Kirchmayr (Ger) 78 76, Stacey Keating (Aus) 74 80, Cecilie Lundgreen (Nor) 78 76
155 Malene Jorgensen (Den) 81 74, Gemma Webster (Sco) 81 74, Iliska Verwey (Rsa) 76 79
156 Sara Djos (Swe) 81 75, Erika Holmen (Swe) 76 80, Titiya Plucksataporn (Tha) 78 78
157 Laure Sibille (Fra) 79 78, Mary Mattson (USA) 81 76, Lien Willems (Bel) 77 80
158 Julie Maisongrosse (Fra) 83 75, Lauren Mielbrecht (USA) 80 78, Sharmila Nicollet (Ind) 80 78, Sandra Carlborg (Swe) 79 79
159 Marieke Nivard (Ned) 78 81, Heather Macrae (Sco) 79 80, Vikki Laing (Sco) 75 84
160 Alexandra Vilatte (Fra) 77 83, Charlotte Ellis (Eng) 79 81, Natalia Heckova (Svk) 80 80, Laurette Maritz (Rsa) 79 81
161 Daniela Prorokova (Cze) 79 82
162 Smriti Mehra (Ind) 81 81
164 Lucy Davies (Eng) 84 80
165 Dana Greenslade (Eng) 82 83
166 Sara Ardstrom (Swe) 84 82
167 Carolina Cordieri (Svk) 82 85
