Confident Start For Champions In European Championships In Norway

Top seeds Nicolas Mueller and Camille Serme made confident starts to the defence of their titles in the European Junior U19 Championships in Stavanger, Norway.

Mueller, from Hirzel, near Zurich, brushed aside Spaniard Carlos Cornes Ribadas 9-7, 9-2, 9-2 in the second round of the men's event to set up a third round clash with Germany's Carsten Schoor, a 9/16 seed.

England's Joe Lee, runner-up to Mueller last year, is also comfortably through to the last sixteen. The recently-crowned British Junior champion from Surrey beat Frenchman Lucas Serme 9-4, 9-1, 9-3 and will now face 9/16 seed Sam van Brusselen, from Belgium, for a place in the quarter-finals.

In the women's event, France's Camille Serme is bidding to become the first player in history to win the flagship European Squash Federation Junior title three times. The 18-year-old from Creteil coasted to a 9-0, 9-1, 9-0 win over Finland's Tia Knuutila and will now face Anna Klimondova, from the Czech Republic, in the third round.

Victoria Lust, the No2 seed from England, is expected to meet Serme in a repeat of the 2007 final. The Bedfordshire 18-year-old defeated Sweden's Eira Mooney 9-1, 9-0, 9-3 and will now take on Dutch opponent Melissa Meulenbelt, a 9/16 seed, for a place in the last eight.

Meulenbelt, together with fellow 9/16 seed Jasmin Ballman, from Switzerland - and Muller in the men's event - are the only players celebrating their fourth appearances in the annual championships.

Men's 2nd round:
[1] Nicolas Mueller (SUI) bt Carlos Cornes Ribadas (ESP) 9-7, 9-2, 9-2
[9/16] Carsten Schoor (GER) bt Rick Penders (NED) 9-1, 9-1, 9-3
[9/16] Michael Harris (ENG) bt Roman Svec (CZE) 9-4, 6-9, 9-1, 9-7
[5/8] Neil Cordell (ENG) bt Christoffer Ohlsson (SWE) 9-2, 9-0, 9-0
[5/8] Henrik Mustonen (FIN) bt Lukas Burkhart (SUI) 9-0, 9-1, 9-2
[9/16] Florian Silbernagl (GER) bt Tom de Mulder (BEL) 9-1, 9-5, 9-5
[9/16] Sam van Brusselen (BEL) bt Raphael Kandra (GER) 9-2, 9-2, 9-2
[3/4] Joe Lee (ENG) bt Lucas Serme (FRA) 9-4, 9-1, 9-3
[3/4] Adrian Waller (ENG) bt Neil Martin (IRL) 9-5, 9-2, 9-1
[9/16] Antoine Camille Petrucci (FRA) bt John Roberts (IRL) 9-1, 9-4, 9-6
[9/16] Alex Ingham (ENG) bt Hywel Robinson (WAL) 9-4, 9-3, 9-3
[5/8] Petr Martin (CZE) bt Gustav Runersjo (SWE) 9-6, 9-1, 9-0
[5/8] Lucas Vauzelle (FRA) bt Alexis Broka (BEL) 9-7, 9-0, 9-1
[9/16] Chris Fuller (ENG) bt Casper Grauballe (DEN) 10-8, 9-1, 9-6
[9/16] Reiko Peter (SUI) bt Ido Avron (ISR) 9-2, 6-9, 9-7, 9-5
[2] Gregoire Marche (FRA) bt Damian Arosa Rodriguez (ESP) 9-0, 9-6, 9-1

Women's 2nd round:
[1] Camille Serme (FRA) bt Tia Knuutila (FIN) 9-0, 9-1, 9-0
Anna Klimondova (CZE) bt Agapi Kazamia (SUI) 9-0, 9-2, 9-2
[9/16] Natalie Pritchard (WAL) bt Amanda Aakeson (NOR) 9-2, 9-1, 9-3
[5/8] Astrid Kern (GER) bt Sarah Corcoran (IRL) 9-1, 9-1, 9-1
[5/8] Sarah-Jane Perry (ENG) bt Cheryl Ennis (IRL) 9-1, 9-5, 9-0
[9/16] Coline Aumard (FRA) bt Carla Fernandez Vazquez (ESP) 9-5, 9-3, 9-1
[9/16] Faustine Gilles (FRA) bt Toke van Wesemael (BEL) 9-10, 9-2, 9-3, 9-4
[3/4] Kimberley Hay (ENG) bt Matilda Ravn-Holm (SWE) 9-3, 9-1, 9-0
[3/4] Sina Wall (GER) bt Karoline Hegbom (NOR) 9-0, 9-0, 9-0
[9/16] Millie Tomlinson (ENG) bt Sally Skarrenborg (DEN) 9-3, 9-3, 9-4
Robyn Hodgson (SCO) bt [9/16] Laura Pomportes (FRA) 9-7, 8-10, 9-7, 2-9, 9-6
[5/8] Victoria Bell (ENG) bt Claire Gray (SCO) 9-0, 9-1, 5-9, 9-2
[5/8] Milou van der Heijden (NED) bt Anna Sophie Ornfeldt (DEN) 9-1, 9-0, 9-0
[9/16] Jasmin Ballman (SUI) bt Klara Janoskova (CZE) 9-6, 9-2, 9-6
[9/16] Melissa Meulenbelt (NED) bt Tesni Evans (WAL) 9-7, 7-9, 9-5, 8-10, 10-8
[2] Victoria Lust (ENG) bt Eira Mooney (SWE) 9-1, 9-0, 9-3