El Weleily makes the main draw

Egypt's Raneem El Weleily, the British Junior Open U17 champion, continued her spectacular run in Kuwait, beating the USA's Latasha Khan in a five-game thriller to reach the main draw. Her reward is a match against top seed Cassie Jackman. No surprises in the other qualifying finals as Shelley Kitchen, Isabelle Stoehr and Madeline Perry booked main draw places.

In men's qualifying yesterday's surprise winner Dan Jenson couldn't find a repeat performance as he went down in three to Nick Taylor, but Azlan Iskandar and Hisham Moh'd Ashour managed to upset the seedings as they beat Renan Lavigne and Mark Chaloner respectively. James Willstrop joined them in the main draw with a comfortable 3/0 win over Omar Elborolossy.

Raneem El Weleily

Day Two Results:

Men's Qualifying Finals:   Men's Draw
James Willstrop (Eng) bt Omar Elborolossy (Egy)  15/7, 15/9, 15/8  (41m)
Azlan Iskandar (Mas) bt Renan Lavigne (Fra)  10/15, 15/8, 11/15, 15/10, 15/7  (79m)
Hisham Moh'd Ashour (Egy) bt Mark Chaloner (Eng)  3/15, 15/13, 17/16, 15/9  (57m)
Nick Taylor (Eng) bt Dan Jenson (Aus)  15/7, 15/5, 15/5  (35m)

Women's Qualifying Finals:  Women's Draw
Shelley Kitchen (Nzl) bt Engy Kheirallah (Egy)  9/5, 9/2, 9/2  (34m)
Raneem El Weleily (Egy) bt Latasha Khan (Usa)  2/9, 9/0, 8/10, 10/8, 10/8  (67m)
Isabelle Stoehr (Fra) bt Amelia Pittock (Aus)  10/9, 9/0, 9/2  (38m)
Madeline Perry (Irl) bt Amnah El Trabolsy (Egy)  9/5, 9/4, 9/1  (22m)