LONDON, Aug 3: Pakistan got off to a good start on the opening day of the World Junior Men’s Team Championship in the Swiss city of Zurich by putting aside Czech Republic 3-0 on the opening day which otherwise produced no surprises.

All the leading seeded countries survived their opening encounters without much ado.

Aamir Atlas Khan, runner-up in the individual championship, led second seed Pakistan to a clean sweep over event newcomers Czech Republic in Pool ‘B’, while favourites Egypt who rested new world champion Mohammed El Shorbagy, beat Finland 3/0 in Pool ‘A’.

Following are the 1st round results:

PAKISTAN bt CZECH REPUBLIC 3-0

Aamir Atlas Khan bt Roman Svec 9-0, 9-0, 9-1; Mohamad Shoaib Hassan bt Ondrej Uherka 9-2, 9-0, 9-1; Waqar Mehboob bt Zbynek Standera 10-8, 9-6, 9-0.

EGYPT bt FINLAND 3-0

Andrew Wagih Shoukry bt Henrik Mustonen 10-9, 9-0, 9-7; Karim Abdel Gawad bt Mikael Siren 9-3, 9-1, 9-2; Amr Khaled Khalifa bt Joonas Honkanen 9-3, 9-2, 9-2.

WALES bt ECUADOR 3-0

Hywel Robinson bt Daniel Cueva Mosquera 9-3, 9-3, 9-0; Sam Fenwick bt Orlando Rodriguez Ordonez 9-5, 9-0, 9-3; David Haley bt Francisco Alvaro Asimbaya 9-7, 9-3, 9-6.

KUWAIT bt BERMUDA 3-0

Mohammed Al Tawari bt Robert Maycock 9-5, 9-3, 9-2; Ahmad Al-Randi bt Micah Franklin 9-3, 9-1, 9-3; Shamlan A Ali bt Noah DaBell 9-1, 9-0, 9-1.

ENGLAND bt DENMARK 3-0

Joe Lee bt Lau Ulrik Kiehn 9-1, 9-0, 9-2; Alex Ingham bt Kristian de Silva Nielsen

9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Adrian Waller bt Philip Tran 9-2, 9-1, 9-0.

SWITZERLAND bt ITALY 3-0

Patrick Miescher bt Alberto Matteazzi 9-3, 9-0, 9-4; Lukas Burkhart bt Dimitri Diamadopoulos 9-6, 9-1, 9-3; Jonas Daehler bt Marco d’Adam 9-2, 9-2, 9-2.

FRANCE bt BELGIUM 3-0

Gregoire Marche bt Tom de Mulder 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; Lucas Serme bt Robin Schreurs 9-5, 9-1, 9-1; Antoine Petrucci bt Laurens Mostmans 10-9, 9-4, 9-2.

SOUTH AFRICA bt CAYMAN ISLANDS 3-0

Thoboki Mohohlo bt Alain Osman Mudeen 9-6, 9-5, 9-4; Wian Louwrens bt Cameron Stafford 9-3, 9-1, 9-3; Reinhold Hergeth bt Jacob Kelly 9-0, 9-8, 9-4.

INDIA bt VENEZUELA 3-0

Aditya Jagtap bt Daniel Prato 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Ramit Tandon bt Alejandro Suarez 9-1, 9-0, 9-1; Ravi Dixit bt Wilfredo Arcia 9-2, 9-0, 9-0.

USA bt NETHERLANDS 3-0

Todd Harrity bt Rick Penders 9-0, 9-0, 9-4; Thomas Mattsson bt Michael Ernst 10-9, 9-2, 9-0; Alex Domenick bt Tim van der Pluijm 9-1, 7-9, 9-3, 9-4.

AUSTRALIA bt GUATEMALA 3-0

Jacob Alexander bt Mauricio Sedano 9-2, 3-9, 9-2, 10-8; Aaron Fyfe bt Bryan Bonilla 9-0, 9-1, 9-3; Joshua Larkin bt Roberto Rodriguez 9-1, 9-0, 9-0.

GERMANY bt IRELAND 3-0

Raphael Kandra bt Colm Dolan 9-0, 9-0, 9-6; Norman Junge bt Kevin Davey 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; Rudi Rohrmuller bt Alan Tighe 9-2, 9-1, 9-2.

CANADA bt SPAIN 3-0

Kelly Shannon bt Fausto Gomez 9-2, 9-1, 9-2; Fred Reid bt Hugo Varela Campo 9-5, 9-1, 9-3; Andrew Schnell bt Daniel Pascual Martinez 9-5, 9-0, 9-0.

HONG KONG bt CHINA 3-0

Leo Au bt Xiaomin Meng 9-2, 9-3, 9-1; Fung Ji Yang bt Li Zhi Yuan 9-2, 9-1, 9-2; Nelson Chan bt Wang Jun Jie 9-0, 9-2, 9-2.

NEW ZEALAND bt SWEDEN 3-0

Evan Williams bt Johan Detter 9-2, 9-0, 9-3; Alex Grayson bt Truls Olterman 9-5, 9-1, 9-1; Keegan Burkhart bt Alex Christensson 9-5, 10-8, 9-4.—APP