Hana ARAPOVIC Beats No. 1 Seed to Claim Top Spot in the Group

In a upset at the 2024 European Olympic Singles Qualification in Sarajevo Hana ARAPOVIC of Croatia defeated the top-seeded player Giorgia PICCOLIN of Italy securing the top position in Group A and advancing to the second stage. Like other group winners in the top 8 groups she will receive a bye in the opening round of the knockout stage tomorrow.

PICCOLIN managed to advance to the second stage from the second position in the group. Jieni SHAO of Portugal secured two wins to progress as the leader in Group 2 with Ozge YILMAZ of Türkiye joining her from second place.

Tin Tin HO of England also secured the top spot with two wins over the no. 3 seed Maria XIAO of Spain who failed to qualify for the next stage. Karoline MISCHEK of Austria also advanced accounting for XIAO and booking her place in stage 2.

Tatiana KUKULKOVA of Slovakia and Sabina Surjan of Serbia justified their rankings and will compete tomorrow. Rachel MORET of Switzerland had a better ratio compared to Georgina POTA of Hungary emerging as the top player in Group E.

Fu YU of Portugal showed no mercy with two straight game wins. Sarah De NUTTE of Luxembourg joined her in the next stage from the second position. Britt EERLAND of the Netherlands went the full distance twice against Sofia Xuan ZHANG of Spain and Elisavet TERPOU of Greece but maintained her top place in the group with ZHANG in second.

Sara TOKIC of Slovenia defied the odds earning a bye tomorrow from the third position in the group with three wins over top-seeded Margaryta PESOTSKA of Ukraine Sibel ALTINKAYA of Turkey and Sabina MUSAJEVA of Latvia. PESOTSKA finished second.

Anna HURSEY of Great Britain emerged successfully at the top of Group I by defeating all her adversaries. Croatia’s Ivana MALOBABIC finished second.

The winner of Group J is Barbora BALAZOVA of Slovakia with Slomiya BRATEYKO of Ukraine in second place. In Group H Debora VIVARELLI of Italy claimed the leading position over Hana MATELOVA of Czechia but both moved forward.

Izabela LUPULESKU of Serbia topped Group L ahead of Dora MADARASZ of Hungary.

You can watch all the matches live on ettu.org and follow the results live here.

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