Ireland will feature in two Consolation Plate round of 8 matches in Cairo on Friday after Danny Lynch and Ella Walsh progressed in the World Squash Junior Championships.
Lynch reached the quarter-finals in Cairo with two accomplished 3-0 wins on Thursday to book his clash against Raphael Ferraro of Switzerland.
Walsh, meanwhile, shrugged aside her recent stomach bug to also win her Thursday match 3-0 and set up a meeting with Yeeun Seo of Korea.
Irish interest in the Special Plate ended with the round of 16 exits for Aaron Knox and Christian Dromgoole against Hong Kong China opponents, while Conal Jackson’s appearance on the all-glass show court resulted in a 0-3 Plate round of 16 loss to Anas Ali Shah of Pakistan.
Nathan Hann exited the Consolation Plate round of 32 with a 0-3 loss, but Frank O’Flynn won his match in the same round, defeating Macau’s Keng In Leong in a five-game thriller. His Consolation Plate round of 16 match was lost 1-3, though.
Riley Slade, the eighth Irish player in action on Thursday, fell to a 0-3 Consolation Plate round of 16 loss.
RESULTS AND FIXTURES (all Irish start times – add two hours for local Cairo time)
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Christian Dromgoole
Special Plate round of 16: Lost 1-3 (6-11, 7-11, 12-10, 6-11) versus Long Hin Larry Wong of Hong Kong China
Nathan Hann
Consolation Plate round of 32: Lost 0-3 (3-11, 3-11, 6-11) versus Fergus Hill of New Zealand
Conal Jackson
Plate round of 16: Lost 0-3 (5-11, 7-11, 4-11) versus Anas Ali Shah of Pakistan
Aaron Knox
Special Plate round of 16: Lost 0-3 (4-11, 10-12, 10-12) versus Wing Kuen Wong of Hong Kong China
Aaron Knox
Special Plate round of 16: Lost 0-3 (4-11, 10-12, 10-12) versus Wing Kuen Wong of Hong Kong China
Danny Lynch
Consolation Plate round of 32: Won 3-0 (13-11, 11-2, 11-7) versus Abdulrahman Alkandari of Kuwait
Consolation Plate round of 16: Won 3-0 (11-4, 11-8, 11-2) versus Ian Miguel De Sousa of Macau
Consolation Plate round of 8: Plays Raphael Ferraro of Switzerland at 8:45am on Friday
Frank O’Flynn
Consolation Plate round of 32: Won 3-2 (11-5, 10-12, 14-12, 7-11, 11-9) versus Keng In Leong of Macau
Consolation Plate round of 16: Lost 1-3 (11-6, 8-11, 3-11, 2-11) versus Joshua Rahul Raj of Australia
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Riley Slade
Consolation Plate round of 16: Lost 0-3 (6-11, 3-11, 4-11) versus Nia Seren Thomas of Wales
Ella Walsh
Consolation Plate round of 16: Won 3-0 (11-3, 11-9, 11-4) versus Lok Long Huang of Macau
Consolation Plate round of 8: Plays Yeeun Seo of Korea on Friday at 8am
