Busy day at the Jeu de Paume. The club was packed for our morning session, undertandably because France were playing their opening match.

Morning session

The first matches in Pool D started around 11am with France v Spain Japon v Hong Kong. There were no upsets and the two favourites will have used this fixture to ease into the tournament.

Hong Kong dispatched Japan 3-0 in about one hour and a half.

Hong Kong bt Japan 3-0

Annie Au bt Misaki Kobayashi : 3-0 (11-4, 11-5, 11-5)

Joey Chan bt Satomi Watanabe : 3-2 (11-4, 7-11, 8-11, 11-7, 11-7)

Tsz Ling Liu bt Risa Sugimoto : 3-0 (11-4, 11-7, 11-8)

As far as France go, the girls started off their campaign well, beating Spain 3-0 with Laura Pomportes, Camille Serme and Coline Aumard in the line-up.

France bt Spain 3-0

Laura Pomportes bt Marina De Juan : 3-0 (13-11, 11-5, 11-5)

Camille Serme bt Xisela Aranda : 3-0 (11-4, 11-1, 11-1)

Coline Aumard bt Cristina Gomez : 3-1 (13-11, 11-8, 9-11, 11-6)

Afternoon session

The afternoon session ended a few minutes ago. It was the start of Pool C with Malaysie v Netherlands and Australia v Austria. No upset here either …

Malaysia bt Netherlands 3-0

Nicol David bt Nathalie Grinham : 3-0 (11-6, 11-3, 11-1)

Delia Arnold bt Milou van Der Heijden : 3-2 (9-11, 11-7, 11-5, 8-11, 11-5)

Sivasangari Subramaniam bt Tessa Ter Sluis : 3-0 (11-4, 11-7, 11-7)

Australia bt Austria 3-0

Donna Urquhart bt Birgit Coufal : 3-0 (11-8 11-3 11-6)

Rachael Grinham bt Sandra Polak : 3-0 (11-2, 11-4, 11-3)

Tamika Saxby bt Judith Van Der Merwe : 3-0 (11-1, 11-3, 11-4)

Evening session

Results and reports to follow …