Sam Mabey enjoyed a good run to the quarter-finals of the Junior Doubles at the Polish Youth Open.

Playing alongside Medardas Stankevicius of Lithuania, the pair made their way through three knockout rounds, including coming from 2-0 down to beat a Romanian pair 3-2 in the last 32.

Their run was ended in the quarters by a pair from Taipei.

In the singles, Mabey made it out of his group and was then beaten in the last 64 by Jiri Martinko of the Czech Republic.

In the team event, Mabey played alongside Isaac Zauli and Rafael Torino of Brazil. The trio were eliminated in the group stages.

Results

Junior Boys’ Singles
Qualifying group 2
Artur Abusev bt Mabey 3-0 (11-9, 11-8, 15-13)
Mabey bt Andrei Tsairokhin 3-2 (7-11, 11-3, 11-13, 11-6, 11-6)

Last 64
Jiri Martinko (CZE) bt Mabey 4-1 (9-11, 11-4, 11-2, 13-11, 13-11)

Junior Boys’ Doubles
Round of 64
Sam Mabey & Medardas Stankevicius (LTU) bt Andrei Labanau & Raman Verhunou (BLR) 3-1 (11-8, 8-11, 11-9, 11-9)
Round of 32
Mabey & Stankevicius bt Alexandru Manole & Florin Spelbus (ROM) 3-2 (6-11, 9-11, 11-8, 11-7, 11-5)
Round of 16
Mabey & Stankevicius bt Andreas Levenko (AUT) & Tomas Polansky (CZE) 3-0 (11-9, 11-4, 11-8)
Quarter-finals
Chi-Chien Lai & Chun-Yu Tsai (TPE) bt Mabey & Stankevicius 3-2 (9-11, 11-8, 11-9, 7-11, 11-6)

Junior Boys’ Team
Group B
Denmark A 3-0 Brazil/England
Andreas Dilling bt Sam Mabey 3-0 (11-7, 11-6, 11-9)
Rasmus Mikkelsen bt Isaac Zauli 3-0 (16-14, 11-8, 11-7)
Jeppe Spottog bt Rafael Torino 3-0 (11-8, 13-11, 11-5)

Poland A 3-1 Brazil/England
Patryk Zatowka bt Mabey 3-0 (11-1, 11-4, 11-6)
Zauli bt Marek Badowski 3-0 (11-7, 11-9, 11-6)
Tomasz Kotowski bt Torino 3-1 (11-5, 6-11, 11-9, 14-12)
Badowski bt Mabey 3-0 (11-8, 11-6, 11-8)

Paul Stimpson
May 28, 2015