Commonwealth Games: Jack Hunter-Spivey & Joshua Stacey guaranteed at least silver
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Hunter-Spivey's class (3-5) has not been included in the previous two Commonwealth Games
2022 Commonwealth Games |
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Hosts: Birmingham Dates: 28 July to 8 August |
Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online. |
England's Jack Hunter-Spivey guaranteed himself at least a Para-table tennis silver medal in the men's class 3-5 at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
The Paralympic bronze medallist, 27, enjoyed a dominant 11-4 13-11 11-9 semi-final win over Isau Ogunkunle.
He will face Nigeria's Nasiru Sule in the gold-medal match on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Wales' Joshua Stacey also secured a medal by beating defending champion Ross Wilson, of England, to reach the final of the 8-10 class.
Stacey will face Australia's Lin Ma in the final on Sunday after Wilson takes on Tajudeen Agunbiade of Nigeria in the bronze-medal match.
England's Sue Bailey, who won team bronze at the Tokyo Paralympics and is competing in her third Commonwealth Games, will face India's Sonalben Patel in the women's class 3-5 bronze-medal match on Saturday after losing her semi-final 11-6 11-6 11-6 to India's Bhavina Patel.
Felicity Pickard lost her semi-final 11-4 11-1 11-3 in the women's 6-10 class to Australia's Qian Yang and will face Faith Obazuaye in the bronze-medal match on Saturday.
Liam Pitchford and Paul Drinkhall of England safely reached the men's doubles semi-finals
English success in evening session
In the evening session, England's Liam Pitchford and Paul Drinkhall reached the men's doubles semi-finals with a win over Nigeria pair Ahmadi Omeh and Olajide Omotayo.
Pitchford and Drinkhall also both progressed to the quarter-finals of the men's singles along with countryman Sam Walker.
And in the women's doubles last 32, England's Tin-Tin Ho and Maria Tsaptsinos and Wales' Laura Whitton and Chloe Thomas Wu Zhang both went through.
In the women's singles quarter-finals. Wales' Anna Hursey lost 4-1 to Australia's Yangzi Liu.
Elsewhere, in the mixed doubles England's pairings of Pitchford and Ho and Charlotte Bardsley and Tom Jarvis were both knocked out in the quarter-finals.