Coll wins, King loses

New Zealand’s leading players had amixed day at the world championships in Egypt with Paul Coll cruising into the quarterfinals but Joelle King suffering an upset loss yesterday. World No 5 King lost to 15th ranked Egyptian Nada Abbas in Cairo 7-11 13-15 11-8 6-11 with their third-round match. Kingwas troubled by injury in the early stages but battled back before the younger Abbas fed off her home support to score a notable victory. Coll had his own injury issues – the matchwas halted briefly in the third game as he cut a knee – butwas otherwise untroubled for an 11-5, 11-0, 11-6 victory over Egypt’s Mazen Hesham in 38 minutes.