Wildcard Omar ousts the Swiss Rocket on Day One !!
There were a handful of seeding upsets, but the biggest upset came in the final match of the day as wildcard Omar Azzam edged out Switzerland’s Nicolas Mueller in a five game thriller ! The standout women’s match was Nada Abbas‘ comeback from two games down to beat Marian Metwally.
Check out the reports and reaction from all today’s matches below the results …
Men’s :
[9/16] Fares Dessouky (Egy) 3-1 Raphael Kandra (Ger) 14-12, 11-8, 10-12, 11-6 (61m)
Sebastien Bonmalais (Fra) 3-1 [9/16] Abdulla Al Tamimi (Qat) 11-8, 6-11, 11-8, 13-11 (61m)
[9/16] Joel Makin (Wal) 3-0 Mohamed ElSherbini (Egy) 11-8, 11-5, 11-2 (47m)
K[9/16] arim Abdel Gawad (Egy) 3-1 Auguste Dussourd (Fra) 9-11, 11-0, 13-11, 11-5 (53m)
[wc] Omar Azzam (Egy) 3-2 [9/16] Nicolas Mueller (Sui) 12-10, 4-11, 11-7, 4-11, 11-9 (55m)
[9/16] Gregoire Marche (Fra) 3-2 Greg Lobban (Sco) 11-9, 6-11, 14-16, 11-6, 13-11 (81m)
[9/16] Youssef Soliman (Egy) 3-0 Baptiste Masotti (Fra) 11-7, 11-9, 12-10 (51m)
Mohamed Abouelghar (Egy) 3-1 [9/16] Youssef Ibrahim (Egy) 12-10, 11-9, 5-11, 11-5 (54m)
Women’s :
Nadine Shahin (Egy) 3-1 [9/16] Jasmine Hutton (Eng) 8-11, 11-8, 12-10, 11-7 (48m)
[9/16] Emily Whitlock (Wal) 3-0 Hana Ramadan (Egy) 11-4, 11-1, 11-8 (31m)
[9/16] Salma Hany (Egy) 3-0 Yathreb Adel (Egy) 11-7, 11-7, 11-7 (30m)
[9/16] Tesni Evans (Wal) 3-0 Alexandra Fuller (Rsa) 12-10, 11-8, 11-4 (31m)
[9/16] Sabrina Sobhy (Usa) 3-0 [wc] Lauren Baltayan (Fra) 13-11, 11-3, 11-2 (23m)
[9/16] Nada Abbas (Egy) 3-2 Mariam Metwally (Egy) 7-11, 8-11, 11-5, 11-4, 11-7 (56m)
[9/16] Farida Mohamed (Egy) 3-1 Tomato Ho (Hkg) 11-6, 3-11, 11-8, 11-6 (41m)
[9/16] Tinne Gilis (Bel) 3-1 Sana Ibrahim (Egy) 15-13, 12-10, 11-7 (56m)
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