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Australia, Brazil and South Africa mounted awesome comebacks connected time 2 of the SDAT Squash World Cup 2025 astatine Express Avenue Mall, Chennai.
Australia and Brazil came backmost against Poland and Switzerland, respectively, aft losing their opening matches owed to walkovers. Australia recorded a 3-1 win, and Brazil salvaged a 2-2 draw. Australian subordinate Madison Lyon hasn’t arrived successful India owed to visa issues, and the squad had to forfeit her game.
South Africa, meanwhile, recovered from going a lucifer down to decision the Republic of Korea.
Results: Pool A: South Africa bt Republic of Korea 3-1 (Teagan Russell mislaid to Song Chaewon 2-7, 4-7, 7-5, 0-7; Dewald Van Niekerk bt Ryu Jeongmin 7-2, 7-5, 7-5; Hayley Ward bt Eum Hwayeong 7-4, 7-6, 7-4; Damian Groenewald bt Ko Youngjo 7-3, 7-4, 7-1)
Pool B: Brazil drew with Switzerland 2-2 (Bruna Marchesi Petrillo w/o Stella Kaufmann; Diego Gobbi bt Louai Hafez 2-7, 7-2, 7-5, 7-4; Laura Silva mislaid to Celine Walser 2-7, 5-7, 1-7; Pedro Mometto bt Robin Gadola 7-6, 7-3, 7-6)
Pool C: Australia bt Poland 3-1 (Madison Lyon mislaid to Sofia Zrazhevska (walkover); Joseph White bt Jan Samborski 7-4, 7-3, 7-4; Jessica van der Walt bt Karina Tyma 7-4, 4-7, 7-1, 7-5; Dylan Molinaro bt Kajetan Lipski 7-0, 7-6, 7-3).
Pool D: Egypt bt Iran 4-0 (Nardine Garas bt Fatemeh Falahati 7-4, 7-1, 7-1; Adam Hawal bt Sepehr Etemadpour 7-2, 7-2, 7-0; Nour Heikal bt Fereshteh Eghtedari 7-6, 7-4, 7-2; Ibrahim Elkabbani bt Pouya Shafiefard 7-1, 7-4, 7-3)
