The draws for the Women’s Singles and Men’s Singles knockout stage at the Mark Bates Ltd National Championships have been completed.

Tournament referee Steve Smith took charge of proceedings at the David Ross Sports Village, with the draw streamed live on Facebook as the draws threw up some great incentives for players to win their groups and earn a match against one of England’s finest.

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Tickets are still available for the event, but if you cannot make it, we are live-streaming the action from every table Friday and Saturday, plus all the action from the single table set-up on Sunday’s Finals Day.

Friday’s action on Table 1 is live on YouTube, with Tables 2 to 6 all being shown live on TTE.TV – in other words, you can follow every ball of every match live!

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In the Women’s Singles, top seed Tin-Tin Ho will face the winner of Group 1, which involves Sienna Jetha, Alyssa Nguyen and Catharine Cody, while second seed Tianer Yu will face the winner of Group 2 – wither Erin Green, Sophie Ackred or Sarah Horsnell.

In the Men’s Singles, top seed Liam Pitchford awaits the winner of Group 1 (Ben Piggott, Bryan Kwan or Victor Guang Shi) and second seed Tom Jarvis will be up against the Group 8 winner – one of Jakub Piwowar, Joseph Hunter of Robert Pelc.

Defending champion Paul Drinkhall will play the winner of Group 3 (Larry Trumpauskas, Isaac Kingham or Adam Dennison) – and Drinkhall as third seed is in Pitchford’s half of the draw.

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The tournament gets under way with the group stages at 1pm today.