Nadeem Dalvi, Zach Russ, Lisa Curtin and Sian Kelly have been among the many spectacular English performers on the 2025 Slovenian Open.
Dalvi reached the quarter-final of the boys’s singles earlier than falling to Ting Yen-Chen of Chinese language Taipei 21-11 21-11 whereas the duo of Curtin and Kelly bowed out on the similar stage of the ladies’s doubles with a 21-5 21-11 defeat to Indonesia’s Velisha Christina and Az Zahra Ditya Ramadhani.
It was the identical story within the males’s doubles, the place Zach Russ, partnered with Denmark’s Jeppe Søby, misplaced out to Indonesia’s Jonathan Farrell Gosal and Adrian Pratama within the quarter-finals.
Dalvi started his marketing campaign within the males’s singles with victory over Italy’s Enrico Baroni earlier than outlasting Singaporean Jia Wei Joel Koh in a back-and-forth battle.
After a 25-23 defeat within the first recreation, Dalvi rallied to take the following two 23-21 21-18 to verify his passage to the final eight earlier than bowing out to Ting.
Curtin and Kelly opened their match by easing previous Poland’s Amelia and Marie Kisiel 21-8 21-14 forward of a 21-9 21-19 win over Italians Martina Corsini and Emma Piccinin to achieve the following stage, the place their run was ended by Christina and Ramadhani.
Again within the males’s doubles, Robin Harper and Harry Wakefield reached the final 16 earlier than a 21-17 24-22 loss to Russ and Søby.
And the pairing of Oliver Butler and Samuel Jones, together with the duo of Ho Fung Sze and Wang Yuehang, reached the identical stage.
Butler and Jones have been crushed 21-16 21-16 by eventual champions Huang Tsung-I and Ling Ting-Yu of Chinese language Taipei whereas Ho and Wang went down 21-17 21-11 by Malaysia’s Loh Ziheng and Tan Zi Yang.
Butler went onto attain the spherical of 32 alongside Abbygael Harris within the blended doubles, with Harper emulating the feat alongside Kelly.
Freya Redfearn was the decide of English performances within the ladies’s singles after reaching the spherical of 32, the place she was defeated by India’s Yashvi Bhat.
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