England & Germany To Contest European Semi-Finals In Brussels

England will be after revenge when they meet title-holders Germany in the semi-finals of the European Junior U19 Team Championships in Brussels, Belgium.

England are favourites to regain the title they lost in last year's final when Germany ended England's 20-year reign as junior champions of Europe.

In the quarter-finals against seventh seeds Wales, Surrey's Joe Lee and Sussex's Tom Pashley had comfortable straight games against Jonathan Davies and Hywel Robinson, respectively - leaving the 'dead' rubber between Victoria Lust and Natalie Pritchard unplayed.

Third seeds Germany recovered from losing the opening match against sixth seeds Czech Republic when Florian Silbernagl and Sina Wall beat Lukas Jelinek and Lucie Fialova, respectively, to ensure a 2/1 victory and a place in the last four.

Second seeds France will face Netherlands, the fourth seeds, in the other semi-final.

Quarter-finals:
[1] ENGLAND bt [7] WALES 2-0
Joe Lee bt Jonathan Davies 9-0, 9-2, 9-0
Tom Pashley bt Hywel Robinson 9-0, 9-8, 9-0
Victoria Lust v Natalie Pritchard (dead rubber not played)

[3] GERMANY bt [5] SWITZERLAND 2-1
Norman Junge lost to Nicolas Mueller 2-9, 0-9, 1-9
Florian Silbernagl bt Reiko Peter 9-2, 9-7, 9-1
Sina Wall bt Jasmin Ballman 4-9, 9-6, 9-5, 9-2

[4] NETHERLANDS bt [6] CZECH REPUBLIC 3-0
Sander Kock bt Petr Martin 9-2, 9-3, 9-4
Bastiaan Meulenbelt bt Lukas Jelinek 9-7, 9-6, 9-3
Melissa Meulenbelt bt Tereza Ctvrtnickova 9-3, 9-3

[2] FRANCE bt [8] DENMARK 3-0
Gregoire Marche bt Kristian Frost Olesen 9-3, 9-2, 9-1
Florent Pontiere bt Casper Grauballe 9-2, 9-0, 9-0
Gabrielle de Lavison bt Sally Skarrenborg 9-1, 9-2

9th - 15th place play-offs:
[9] FINLAND bt [15] SWEDEN 3-0
Henrik Mustonen bt Mans Asp 9-0, 9-0, 9-2
Pyry Poikolainen bt Pontus Olsson 7-9, 9-5, 6-9, 9-7, 9-2
Laura Aalto-Setala bt Sofia Orneberg 9-5, 9-5

[11] SCOTLAND bt [13] ISRAEL 3-0
Lyall Paterson bt Ido Avron w/o
Kevin Moran bt Nir Zisman w/o
Lisa Aitken bt Mor Berkovsky w/o

[12] SPAIN bt [14] IRELAND 3-0
Pedro Espeleta bt Gordon Harpur 9-1, 9-5, 9-1
Diego Lopez bt Chris O'Kane 9-0, 9-5, 9-4
Carla Fernandez Vazquez bt Patricia Burns 9-8, 5-9, 9-7

[10] BELGIUM bye