Fresh off smashing her own Australian 100m record with a sizzling run of 11.08 seconds on day one of the World Athletics Championships, Torrie Lewis has another number in mind.

But, the ex-Newcastle student is not letting on what it is.

Suffice it to say that the 20-year-old reckons she can go very fast in the semi-finals – and perhaps even the final – on Sunday.

Drawn against superstars Sha’Carri Richardson and Shericka Jackson in the most loaded of the seven heats on Saturday, the former Macquarie Hunter Athletics Club member was inspired rather than overwhelmed.

She finished third in 11.08 into a 0.8m per second headwind, stripping two hundredths of a second from the Australian record she had set early last year in Canberra.

“I was super nervous for this competition, because I knew in training that these are the times I can hit,” Lewis said.

“Actually, this is the slowest time in my mind I had, so hopefully I can just build on that.”

Pushed on how much quicker she could run in Tokyo, Lewis elected to keep it to herself for now.

However, presumably it’s a number starting with a 10.

Olympic 1500m silver medallist Jessica Hull and her longtime domestic rival Linden Hall will also be back in action on Sunday after easing into the 1500m semis.

Adopted Novocastrian Hull banished any remaining demons from her dramatic loss in the recent Diamond League final – when she ran out of gas in the shadow of the line – by controlling her heat to win in four minutes 04.40 seconds.

“I still don’t have any answers to what happened in Zurich so when I couldn’t figure out any answers I just put it to bed,” she said.

“It was a bad day and I don’t have too many of them.

“So, it does freak me a little bit when I have them.

“There has been nothing really suggesting what happened, I couldn’t ask for anything more in training.

“I’m just putting it down to a bad day on the wrong day.”

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