Sam Walker & Feng Yi-Hsin were knocked out of WTT Contender Zagreb by the third seeds from South Korea.

Walker (pictured above) and his partner from Chinese Taipei – who beat Liam Pitchford at the Star Contender Ljubljana last week – sailed through the qualifying round to take their place in the main draw.

They won the first 10 points of the match against the Dutch-Slovak combination of Remi Chambet-Weil & Peter Hribar, going on to take that game 11-2. They were always ahead in winning the second 11-6, and they completed victory 11-1 in the third.

Their reward was to face third seeds An Jaehyun & Lim Jonghoon of South Korea in the last 16 and the match was well poised at 1-1 after Walker & Feng saved six game points in the second, taking their own first chance to win 15-13.

However, the seeded pair stepped stepped it up and won the next two games for the combined loss of only five points to go through to the quarter-finals.

In the singles, Walker, who climbed 11 places to No 214 in this week’s world rankings, lost out in three to Borgar Haug of Norway (WR 82).

Results

Men’s Singles
Qualifying round 2
Borgar Haug (NOR) bt Sam Walker 3-0 (11-3, 11-6, 11-8)

Men’s Doubles
Qualifying round 1
Sam Walker & Feng Yi-Hsin (TPE) bt Remi Chambet-Weil (NED) & Peter Hribar (SLO) 3-0 (11-2, 11-6, 11-1)

Round of 16
An Jaehyun & Lim Jonghoon (KOR) bt Walker & Feng 3-1 (11-7, 13-15, 11-2, 11-3)