The first round of elimination produced few major surprises with most of the top seeds making their way into the last 32. Among the upsets were 53rd seed Volodymyr Stadnyk (UKR) defeating 12th seed Mate Hari of Hungary with a nail-biting 14-13 win at time and Dutch 11th seed Max Janssen succumbing to 54th seed Robin Pfefferkorn (AUT) 15-12.
Two of the Brits fell at this hurdle with Callum O'Donnell being beaten by the speed and accuracy of Hungary's Gabor Nemeth 15-7 and Tom Allen suffering a heavy loss against Chen Li of China. Better news was the progress of Alex Tofalides who beat Yotam Ullman of Israel 15-10 with a typicaly belligerent performance. He faces Brazilian Toldo in the last 32 as the action starts to hot up.
Photo courtesy of Denise Wilson