Top seed Timo Boll ended Liam Pitchford’s hopes of a European Championships medal at the last 16 stage, beating the England No 1 4-2 in a high-class match.

Commonwealth silver medallist Kim Daybell (men’s class 10) and two of the British Para Table Tennis Team’s teenage stars Megan Shackleton (women’s class 4) and Josh Stacey (men’s class 9) all took gold in their respective singles events at the PTT Czech Open in Ostrava.

Sam Walker and his Danish partner Tobias Rasmussen have taken out the fifth seeds to storm into the last eight at the European Championships, and Liam Pitchford is into the singles last 16.

Liam Pitchford and Tin-Tin Ho won their singles matches at the European Championships today to move into the last 32, while Pitchford & Paul Drinkhall, and Sam Walker, are into the last 16 of the doubles.

Sam Walker and Tin-Tin Ho are through to the main draw of the European Championships as group winners, but Paul Drinkhall and Maria Tsaptsinos’ singles campaigns are over.

The terms of reference have been published for the two Board sub-groups which are steering the latest phase of the Governance Review.

Pride of Table Tennis Awards winner Charlotte Binley is urging people to make nominations for this year’s awards before the closing date next week – and is also celebrating a GB call-up.

Paul Drinkhall, Sam Walker and Tin-Tin Ho all notched two singles victories out of two, while Maria Tsaptsinos beat an athlete ranked 145 places above her as the European Championships opened in Alicante today.