Great Britain's Joanna Parker made a brilliant start to her campaign at European table tennis' Olympic qualification tournament in France.

The 20-year-old stunned China's Fang Zhu, winning the deciding game for a 4-3 victory in Nantes, and then routed Slovakia's Barbora Balazova to put herself in pole position to qualify from the round-robin stage.

Fellow youngster Kelly Sibley did not fare so well, however, losing her opening match to Belarus' Viktoria Pavlovich without winning a game.

In the men's tournament, highly-rated 18-year-old Paul Drinkhall recovered from an opening 4-2 defeat by France's Christophe Legout to beat Spaniard Victor Sanchez 4-3.

But Adam Robertson had a day to forget with defeats by Aleksandar Karakasevic and David Zombory all but ending his hopes of qualification.

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