Top seed Tomasso Lari (ITA) is through to the last 32 after beating Babaoglu (TUR) 15-1 and second seed Jean-Paul Tony-Helissey (FRA) had a similarly easy 15-3 victory over Timur Arslanov (RUS). The big upset so far is world number one Dmitry Zherebchenko (RUS) going out 15-10 to Volodymyr Koltygo (UKR).
British fortunes were mixed. Marcus Mepstead unfortunately lost to Chen Li of China. The Chinese opened up a gap in the middle of the fight and Marcus was not able to close the gap. Ed Jefferies however destroyed 14th seed Orlando Salazar (ESP) 15-4 and now faces Nicholas Choi (HKG) in the last 32.
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