Alex & Amr Amble Into 8 Gallery Quarters

Top seeds Alex Stait and Amr Ramzy Swelim cruised into the last eight of the 8 Gallery Open after straightforward first round victories in the new PSA Tour event at the 8 Gallery Shopping Mall in the Italian city of Turin.

Favourite Stait brushed aside fellow Englishman Darren Lewis 11-4, 11-6, 11-8 in just 28 minutes while Swelim, the No2 seed from Egypt, clinched his place in the next round after opponent Mathieu Castagnet retired injured with the score standing at 11-9, 11-7.

Manchester-based Stait will face Jens Schoor in the quarter-finals after the German qualifier upset Kuwait's No8 seed Bader Al Hussaini 11-9, 11-5, 11-5.

Frenchman Romain Tenant caused another shopping mall shock when he beat sixth seed Jan Koukal 11-3, 11-5, 11-4. The 23-year-old Czech number one from Prague has had a disappointing run on the PSA Tour over the past five months, failing to achieve his seeding in six events since July.

Tenant, a qualifier from Morlaix, will now meet fellow Frenchman Julien Balbo, the No4 seed, for a place in the last four.

1st round:
[1] Alex Stait (ENG) bt Darren Lewis (ENG) 11-4, 11-6, 11-8 (28m)
[Q] Jens Schoor (GER) bt [8] Bader Al Hussaini (KUW) 11-9, 11-5, 11-5 (38m)
[3] Lee Drew (ENG) bt Fabien Verseille (FRA) 11-10 (3-1), 11-7, 9-11, 11-8 (42m)
[5] Chris Ryder (ENG) bt Gianvito Allegretti (ITA) 11-5, 11-7, 11-6 (33m)
[Q] Romain Tenant (FRA) bt [6] Jan Koukal (CZE) 11-3, 11-5, 11-4 (23m)
[4] Julien Balbo (FRA) bt [Q] Joshua Greenfield (NZL) 11-5, 11-3, 11-5 (21m)
[7] Luca Mastrostefano (ITA) bt [Q] Shaun le Roux (ENG) 11-4, 11-6, 11-6 (32m)
[2] Amr Ramzy Swelim (EGY) bt Mathieu Castagnet (FRA) 11-9, 11-7 ret.