New Zealand Reach World Junior Team Championship Quarters

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New Zealand sealed their place in the quarter-final stage of the World Junior Team Championships for the first time in six years after upsetting number eight seeds Canada in Bielsko-Biala, Poland.

World No.366 Jamie Oakley, the son of legendary four-time Women’s senior World Champion Susan Devoy, had a starring role in his country’s triumph after he opened proceedings against Michael Sehl, winning 3-0, before teammate Finn Trimble lost out to Matthew Henderson to level the scores.

Next up for the Kiwis was Scott Galloway and an assured display from the 18-year-old saw him dispatch Rahul Sehrawat in straight games to send New Zealand through to the last eight.

Title favourites Egypt will go up against New Zealand for a place in the semi-final after they received a bye in the previous round, while Australia are guaranteed a first quarter-final finish for the first time in 14 years courtesy of a 2-1 win over South Africa.

England and the United States were the other nations to seal quarter-final berths after respective wins against Hong Kong and Jordan.

Meanwhile, Poland managed their first ever World Junior Team Championships victory by downing Zimbabwe 2-1 in the 13th-21st play-offs before losing out to Switzerland to ensure that they will face Argentina in the 17th-20th place play-offs.

Results – Men’s World Junior Team Championships 2016

1st – 12th place play-offs:

[1] _EGYPT_ _(bye)_

[9] NEW ZEALAND 2-1 [8] CANADA
Jamie Oakley bt Michael Mehl 11-6, 13-11, 11-7 (36m)
Finn Trimble lost to Matthew Henderson 11-2, 13-15, 11-5, 11-13, 11-13 (49m)
Scott Galloway bt Rahul Sehrawat 11-8, 11-7, 11-5 (31m)

[5] ENGLAND 2-0 [11] HONG KONG
Charlie Lee bt Ng Ka Yiu 11-8, 11-2, 11-7 (27m)
Adam Corcoran bt Harley Lam 11-8, 11-4, 11-2 (35m)

[4] INDIA (bye)

[3] FRANCE (bye)

[6] USA 2-1 [12] JORDAN
Andrew Douglas lost to Mohammad Al Sarraj 4-11, 11-9, 7-11, 11-8, 10-12 (61m)
Samuel Scherl bt Ibrahim Abdulaban 11-3, 12-10, 11-5 (27m)
Spencer Lovejoy bt Hamza Alzubaidi 10-12, 11-4, 11-6, 11-7 (38m)

[10] AUSTRALIA 2-1 [17] SOUTH AFRICA
Alex Eustace bt Richard-John Kuhn 11-8, 11-9, 11-8 (40m)
Joseph White bt Adam Shean 11-7, 7-11, 11-5, 4-11, 11-9 (52m)
Alex Oswald lost to Callan Mackenzie Hall 7-11, 9-11 (18m)

[2] PAKISTAN (bye)

13th – 21st place play-offs:

[14] SWITZERLAND (bye)

[21] POLAND 2-1 [20] ZIMBABWE
Maksymilian Wielgus bt Callum Lawton 11-9, 11-8, 11-9
Filip Jarota bt Nicholas Joughin 12-14, 11-6, 6-11, 11-9, 11-2
Mateusz Osojca lost to Luke Mannion 8-11, 9-11

[18] ARGENTINA (bye)

[16] ISRAEL (bye)

[
7] MALAYSIA (bye)

[13] GUATEMALA (bye)

[19] SPAIN (bye)

[15] GERMANY (bye)

13th – 20th place play-offs:

[14] SWITZERLAND 2-1 [21] POLAND
Roman Allinckx bt Mateusz Osojca 11-4, 11-2, 11-3
Luca Zatti lost to Filip Jarota w/o
Christoph Zust bt Mateusz Szewczyk 11-2, 11-7, 11-4

[16] ISRAEL 2-1 [18] ARGENTINA
Nadav Raziel bt Juan Barreyro 11-9, 11-4, 9-11, 11-5
Yotam Peled lost to Matías Kupferberg 9-11, 7-11, 15-13, 11-7, 1-11
Ido Burstein bt Rodrigo Bonzo 11-5, 11-5, 11-5

[7] MALAYSIA 2-0 [13] GUATEMALA
Eain Yow Ng bt Junior Enríquez Franco 11-0, 11-4, 11-4
Marcus Sim Wei Jie bt Roberto Urruela Bowen 11-2, 11-4, 11-3

[19] SPAIN 2-0 [15] GERMANY
Nilo Vidal bt Tobias Weggen 11-8, 11-6, 11-8
Enrique Garcia bt Loïc Hennard 11-9, 15-13, 6-11, 5-11, 12-10

Draw – Men’s World Junior Team Championships 2016

Quarter-Final

[1] EGYPT v [9] NEW ZEALAND
[4] INDIA v [5] ENGLAND
[3] FRANCE v [6] USA
[2] PAKISTAN v [10] AUSTRALIA

9th – 12th place play-offs:

[8] CANADA v [11] HONG KONG CHINA
[12] JORDAN v [17] SOUTH AFRICA

13th – 16th place play-offs:

[14] SWITZERLAND v [16] ISRAEL
[7] MALAYSIA v [19] SPAIN

17th – 20th place play-offs:

[18] ARGENTINA v [21] POLAND
[13] GUATEMALA v [15] GERMANY