Seeds Survive Opening Day At HKFC International

All eight seeds survived the opening round of the 2014 HKFC PSA International 25 tournament at the Hong Kong Football Club in in Hong Kong.

Number one seed Alister Walker, Botswana's Sportsman Of The Year, began his title tilt in composed fashion taking out in-form Shaun le Roux, the South African wild card who has won three of his last four tournaments, 11-9, 2-11, 11-8, 11-9.

England's Adrian Grant, the number two seed, was commanding as he saw off Malaysian Ivan Yuen in just 40 minutes while local duo Max Lee and Leo Au also impressed, coming through against Nasir Iqbal and Rex Hedrick, respectively, to ensure home hopes remain strong going into the second round.

Elsewhere there were wins for Ong Beng Hee, Mohd Nafiizwan Adnan, Mazen Hesham and Henrik Mustonen.