Tom Jarvis, Maria Tsaptsinos and Sam Mabey all won their opening singles matches at the Poland Open, while there was also success for England in the under-21 and doubles competitions.
Jarvis, having beaten Huang Yu-Jen of Chinese Taipei in his first group match, can book a place in the knockout stage by defeating India’s Abhishek Yadav today, while Mabey overcame Iceland’s Birgir Ivarsson and now faces Xu Yingbin in his final group match today.
Matthew Daish was defeated in both his group matches yesterday, though he fought hard against two higher-ranked opponents, including European under-21 champion Ioannis Sgouropoulos of Greece, before going down 3-1 in each match.
In the women’s singles, Tsaptsinos defeated Czech Anna Matejovska 12-10 in the decider, having seen her opponent level from 2-0 down. A win over Ana Tofant of Slovenia today will put Tsaptsinos through.
However, both Emily Bolton and Denise Payet were defeated in their opening group matches by opponents from Chinese Taipei.
In the under-21 singles, Jarvis won his last-64 match against an Italian opponent. Daish was drawn against top seed Denis Ivonin of Russia but again gave a decent account of himself, taking the second game before going down 3-1.
Payet saved three match points against Karoline Mischek of Austria before going down 3-1 in the under-21 women’s singles, but Bolton won her match to reach the last 32.
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In the men’s doubles, Jarvis and Daish were both winners in the preliminary round – Jarvis alongside Elias Ranefur of Sweden and Daish with Aleksa Gacev of Serbia. But Mabey and partner Peter Hribar of Slovenia went out.
Tin-Tin Ho – who is seeded 21st in the women’s singles – got through her preliminary round doubles match alongside Mischek, but Bolton & Payet went out to a Swedish pair.
Results
Men’s Singles
Group 1
Tom Jarvis bt Huang Yu-Jen (TPE) 3-0 (11-8, 11-8, 11-9)
Group 5
Carlo Rossi (ITA) by Matthew Daish 3-1 (11-5, 11-8, 11-13, 12-10)
Ioannis Sgouropoulos (GRE) bt Daish 3-1 (11-6, 8-11, 14-12, 11-5)
Group 8
Sam Mabey bt Birgir Ivarsson (ISL) 3-0 (11-7, 11-7, 11-5)
Women’s Singles
Group 5
Cai Fong-En (TPE) bt Denise Payet 3-1 (9-11, 11-5, 11-4, 11-6)
Group 6
Chien Tung-Chuan (TPE) bt Emily Bolton 3-0 (11-9, 11-9, 11-9)
Group 19
Maria Tsaptsinos bt Anna Matejovska (CZE) 3-2 (11-6, 11-8, 10-12, 10-12, 12-10)
Under-21 Men’s Singles
Round of 64
Denis Ivonin (RUS) bt Matthew Daish 3-1 (11-6, 7-11, 11-6, 11-6)
Tom Jarvis bt Chen Shuainan (ITA) 3-1 (11-2, 9-11, 11-8, 11-8)
Under-21 Women’s Singles
Round of 64
Emily Bolton bt Andreea Clapa (ROU) 3-0 (12-10, 11-8, 12-10)
Karoline Mischek (AUT) bt Denise Payet 3-1 (11-7, 9-11, 11-6, 14-12)
Men’s Doubles
Preliminary round 1
Matthew Daish & Aleksa Gacev (SRB) bt Tibor Spanik & Alexander Valuch (SVK) 3-2 (11-7, 6-11, 11-9, 9-11, 11-8)
Tom Jarvis & Elias Ranefur (SWE) bt Yuma Tanigaki & Jo Yokotani (JPN) 3-2 (11-6, 11-5, 8-11, 5-11, 11-4)
Daniele Pinto & Carlo Rossi (ITA) bt Sam Mabey & Peter Hribar (SLO) 3-2 (11-7, 10-12, 7-11, 11-7, 11-7)
Women’s Doubles
Preliminary round 1
Filippa Bergand & Jennifer Jonsson (SWE) bt Emily Bolton & Denise Payet 3-1 (14-12, 11-4, 12-14, 11-9)
Tin-Tin Ho & Karoline Mischek (AUT) bt Anna Matejovska & Karolina Mynarova (CZE) 3-0 (11-6, 11-6, 11-8)