Photo courtesy of Denise Wilson

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Women's sabre poules


After the poules it is good news for 4th ranked Reka Benko (HUN) who wins all of her fights for the loss of 9 hits in a poule of 6 and is now 5th seed. Kovaleva (RUS) and Kharlan (UKR) both drop one fight from five, but Mercado Mendez is three up three down.

Coming out on top after the poules is Julia Gavrilova (RUS). Cecilia Berder (FRA) is second with Lucrezia Sinigaglia (ITA) and Caroline Vloka (USA) in third and fourth.

Jessica Davies leads the way for the Brits with three wins from 5 and is ranked 31st and fences Lea Scholten (GER) in the last 64.

She is followed by Sophie Williams who won 2 fights from 6 and is 48th seed facing Marina Paizi (GRE).

Kira Roberts was just one victory from five and misses the cut to 56, she finishes 58th.

The picture shows Jessica Davies scoring a riposte against Bilgin (TUR) on her way to a 5-0 victory.