Tibor Andrasfi was one of those to qualify - first by beating Ilian Bobrov of Estonia 15-9 before beating compatriot Mate Csabai 15-11.

Balint Bakos moved through too, first by the narrowest of margins when he defeated Marc Housieaux of Belgium.

He made it into tomorrow's competition by winning 15-9 against Czech Republic's Martin Capek.

Seventh seed in the preliminary round Zsombor Banyai won 15-13 against Estonian Sten Priinits before knocking out Jan Schuhmann of Austria 15-12.

Daniel Berta is into the final 64 draw after first disposing of team mate Peter Szenyi 15-10 and then beating Denmark's Frederik von der Osten 14-13.

The final Hungarian to make it through was Zsombor Keszthelyi after beating Hong Kong's Ho Wai Hang 15-11 and then American second seed Sean White 15-10.

Already automatically qualified as the higher seeds are Hungarians Andras Redli, David Nagy, Mate Tomas Koch, Jonathan Hamilton-Meike and second seed Gergely Siklosi.

Top seed from the preliminaries - Davide Di Veroli of Italy - was eliminated in the final round before tomorrow by Israel's Grigori Beskin by a score of 15-7.

All of the top four seeds were knocked out - with Italian number three Valerio Cuomo losing to Manuel Bargues of Spain 15-11, and Kazakhstan's Ruslan Kurbanov going down 15-10 to Denmark's Conrad Seibaek Kongstad.

Fifth seed Michele Niggeler of Switzerland lost 15-10 to Brazil's Alexandre Camargo and American sixth seed Justin Haddad went down to Finland's Julius Jutila 15-11 in his first match.