It was a long first day of Main Draw action at OWest as 32 players – including two Lucky Losers, Two Qualifiers and a Wildcard – booked Round Two spots against the seeded players tomorrow …
- Longest match of the day is saved to last as Yannick Wilhelmi completes the Round Two lineups
- Sam Todd‘s first outdoor match in Egypt sees him through against wildcard Roshdy
- Nadien Elhammamy wins opening Glass Court match, it’s Hania El Hammamy next !
- And another qualifier wins, Ruqayya Salem comes from a game down to beat Rachel Arnold
- Good day for Qualifiers continues as Joachim Chuah downs Mueller in straight games
- Another Lucky Loser through as Yasshmita Jadishkumar beats Mariam Metwally
- Auguste Dussourd fights back in the fifth to deny qualifier Refaay
- Lucky Loser Marwan Assal comes ffrom a game down to upset Baptiste Masotti
- Wildcard Nadia Mahmoud through after Malak Khagafy injury at 2-1 up
- Action under way on four traditional courts at O West
GC, from 19.00
Nadien Elhammamy (Egy) 3-0 Nour Aboulmakarim (Egy) 11-5, 11-5, 11-5 (30m)
Sam Todd (Eng) 3-1 [wc] Adham Roshdy (Egy) 13-11, 11-2, 9-11, 11-7 (71m)
Amina El Rihany (Egy) 3-2 Nour Heikal (Egy) 11-9, 11-2, 9-11, 9-11, 11-8 (59m)
Yannick Wilhelmi (Sui) 3-2 Toufik Mekhalfi (Fra) 11-8, 11-8, 11-13, 8-11, 11-9 (86m)
12.00
Anahat Singh (Ind) 3-1 [wc] Habiba Rizk (Egy) 11-5, 11-4, 5-11, 16-14 (44m)
[wc] Nadia Mahmoud (Egy) 3-2 Malak Khafagy (Egy) 7-11, 6-11, 11-5 rtd (38m)
Hanah Ramadan (Egy) 3-0 [Q] Nour Khagafy (Egy) 11-8, 11-5, 13-11 (37m)
Lucy Turmel (Eng) 3-1 [Q] Xin Ying Yee (Mas) 11-9, 11-4, 4-11, 11-5 (41m)
12.45
Velavan Senthilkumar (Ind) 3-0 Bernat Jaume (Esp) 11-5, 11-2, 11-4 (28m)
Kareem El Torkey (Egy) 3-1 [Q] Yassin Shohdy (Egy) 11-8, 11-7, 9-11, 11-5 (52m)
Declan James (Jam) 3-1 Alex Lau (Hkg) 11-5, 11-6, 7-11, 11-5 (46m)
Karim El Hammamy (Egy) 3-1 Ivan Perez (Esp) 9-11, 11-8, 11-5, 11-4 (65m)
13.30
Torrie Malik (Eng) 3-1 Nardine Garas (Egy) 9-11, 11-9, 11-4, 11-7 (37m)
Nada Abbas (Egy) 3-1 Hollie Naughton (Can) 8-11, 12-10, 11-4, 11-5 (42m)
Kenzy Ayman (Egy) 3-0 Lee Ka Yi (Hkg) 11-6, 11-6, 11-9 (21m)
Sana Ibrahim (Egy) 3-0 [Q] Tanvi Khanna (Ind) 11-4, 11-7, 11-3 (30m)
14.15
[LL] Marwan Assal (Egy) 3-1 Baptiste Masotti (Fra) 9-11, 11-9, 13-11, 11-6 (55m)
Gregoire Marche (Fra) 3-0 Balazs Farkas (Hun) 11-4, 11-5, 11-2 (24m)
Timmy Brownell (Usa) 3-0 [wc] Ismail Amr Abdellatif (Egy) 11-3, 11-5, 11-7 (28m)
Auguste Dussourd (Fra) 3-2 [Q] Seif Refaay (Egy) 11-6, 6-11, 11-9, 2-11, 11-9 (75m)
16.00
[LL] Yasshmita Jadishkumar (Mas) 3-0 Mariam Metwally (Egy) 11-9, 12-10, 11-7 (35m)
Grace Gear (Eng) 3-1 Katie Malliff (Eng) 11-8, 7-11, 11-9, 11-2 (38m)
Tomato Ho (Hkg) 3-2 Aira Azman (Mas) 11-7, 7-11, 4-11, 11-6, 11-4 (40m)
Zeina Mickawy (Egy) 3-1 [Q] Habiba Hani (Egy) 11-9, 11-2, 9-11, 11-2 (39m)
16.45
Greg Lobban (Sco) 3-0 Raphael Kandra (Ger) 11-8, 11-9, 13-11 (44m)
Patrick Rooney (Eng) 3-2 Curtis Malik (Eng) 8-11, 11-5, 11-4, 8-11, 12-10 (65m)
[Q] Joachim Chuah (Mas) 3-0 Nicolas Mueller (Sui) 11-3, 11-6, 11-4 (26m)
Juan Vargas (Col) 3-2 [Q] Ibrahim Elkabbani (Egy) 9-11, 11-9, 11-8, 2-11, 11-5 (65m)
17.45
Hana Moataz (Egy) 3-0 Marta Dominguez (Esp) 11-7, 11-7, 11-8 (34m)
Veer Chotrani (Ind) 3-0 Moustafa Elsirty (Egy) 11-7, 11-5, 11-3 (33m)
[Q] Ruqayya Salem (Egy) 3-1 Rachel Arnold (Mas) 12-14, 11-9, 14-12, 11-4 (44m)
Dimitri Steinmann (Sui) 3-0 Matias Knudsen (Col) 11-3, 11-5, 11-4 (32m)
