Quadri Aruna, Nigeria's former world No 10, missed out on the main draw at WTT Contender Istanbul on Wednesday, beaten 11-9, 11-8, 11-9 by Norway's Borgar Haug in the last round of qualifying.
Aruna, now ranked 100th, had needed five games to get past Luxembourg's Mael Van Dessel in the morning and could not find a way through against Haug, the world No 151, who led in all three games and never let him back into the match.
Sareen and Walther go through
Australia's Aditya Sareen, 18, had the longest night. A day after beating China's Quan Kaiyuan 3-0, the world No 115 came from 2-1 down against South Korea's Lim Yunoh and won the decider 14-12.
Germany's Ricardo Walther ended the run of Ao Hualei, the unranked Chinese who had knocked out England's Connor Green that morning, winning 11-9, 13-11, 11-9. South Korea's defender Kang Dongsoo took the first game 21-19 against Turkey's Gorkem Ocal on his way to a 3-0 win, and Brazil's Leonardo Iizuka beat Ibrahim Gunduz 14-12, 11-8, 17-15, two long games that ended the home crowd's hopes in that match.
Japan's Jo Yokotani beat Tugay Yilmaz 11-5, 11-5, 11-8, so none of Turkey's three men in the final qualifying round reached the main draw. Maksim Grebnev, playing under Russia's flag, beat Italy's Matteo Mutti 11-8 in the fifth, and China's Yuan Licen lost the first game before beating Bulgaria's Yoan Velichkov 3-1.
Wei Jingming holds on
In the women's draw, China's Wei Jingming, a 17-year-old defender ranked 250th, had won both of her earlier qualifying matches without dropping a game. Germany's Yuan Wan took two games off her, but Wei won the decider 11-9.
Ukraine's Veronika Matiunina twice came from a game down against France's Isa Cok, who had needed a 15-13 decider in the previous round, and took the fifth 11-9. Iran's Elina Rahimi won the first two games against Valeriia Kotsiur, lost the next two and won the decider 11-5.
Wang Xiaotong, the world No 94, beat Jessica Reyes Lai of the US 11-4, 11-6, 11-4, a day after Reyes Lai had put out England's Tianer Yu. Fan Shuhan, the top seed in qualifying, beat Arina Slautina 3-0, France's Audrey Zarif came from a game down to beat Italy's Debora Vivarelli 3-1, and Spain's Sofia-Xuan Zhang beat Sweden's Nomin Baasan 11-8 in the fifth. Turkey's Sibel Altinkaya went out in the last qualifying round.
Fang Bo's comeback
Fang Bo, the 2015 world singles runner-up who now plays for Kazakhstan, is in the men's main draw without having to qualify. The 34-year-old, ranked 160th, plays Algeria's Mehdi Bouloussa, the world No 70, in the first round.
His doubles went less well. Fang and Iskender Kharki lost 11-6, 11-9, 12-10 to Kang and Lim in men's doubles qualifying, after leading 10-8 in the third game. He and Austria's Sofia Polcanova are in the mixed doubles last 16, where they play Grebnev and Vlada Voronina.
The main draw
Denmark's Anders Lind, the world No 18, is the top seed in the men's singles and opens against Huang Youzheng, the 21-year-old who was named last week in China's squad for the Mixed Team World Cup. Japan's Honoka Hashimoto, ranked 14th, is the women's top seed, with South Korea's Joo Cheonhui seeded second.
England's Tom Jarvis, the eighth seed and world No 51, plays Nikita Artemenko, ranked 76th, and Wales's Anna Hursey, the world No 38, meets Taiwan's Yeh Yi-Tian, ranked 49th. The qualifiers will be drawn into the remaining places in both singles draws.
The main draw starts on Thursday with the mixed doubles last 16 from about 7am UK time. Green and Hursey, the third seeds, play Iizuka and Laura Watanabe of Brazil at about 7.35am. Times for the singles first round are on Eleven's event page, along with live scores.
