Following his scare against Argentina yesterday, England’s James Willstrop came through his tie with Finland's Olli Tuominen with ease, winning 3-0 in just 33 minutes in the first match of the day at the Modern Squash and Salle Vallier.

Malaysia produced the first upset by beating India, the eighth seeds in the second qualifying round.

World number 21 Saurav Ghosal opened proceedings for India, taking on Nafiizwan Adnan,  to whom he had never before lost.

But the Malaysian number one clinched the match 11-8, 8-11, 5-11, 11-4, 11-9.

India struck back when Mahesh Mangaonkar recovered from a game down to beat 21-year-old Mohd Syafiq Kamal 8-11, 11-8, 11-5, 11-5 to level the tie.

Teenager Eain Yow Ng, making his debut in the championship, then faced India's experienced Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu, a 28-year-old from Chennai celebrating his fourth time in the World Championship.

19-year-old Ng battled back from 2-1 down to overcome Sandhu 11-7, 5-11, 8-11, 11-6, 11-5 in 62 minutes to strengthen Malaysia's bid to top Pool H.

Malaysia's team manager Major Maniam,  the former Indian National Coach, was delighted with his team's performance: “With our number two out with an injury, we arrived in Marseille with a slightly weakened team – but Wan (Nafiizwan) and Yow were outstanding.

“Wan was absolutely focussed and faced an experienced opponent in Saurav.

“Yow played another very experienced player and truly lived up to our expectations.

"We were expecting a good hard fight. 

“I am very happy with the way the boys played.”

Tournament favourites Egypt, on the other hand, did not need much time to dispatch Switzerland with their total match time clocking in at just over an hour.

A few teams played their first matches of the tournament today, including Scotland and Wales, along with the United States.

Unfortunately for them though, things did not go to plan as they all lost their opening matches of the tournament to Germany, Australia and New Zealand respectively.

Following his side’s victory against Wales, Australia coach Paul Price said: "We expected a tough tie against Wales, especially on these hard courts.

"We're happy to win the pool and to be through to the round of 16.

"Now we have a rest day tomorrow and we are looking forward to getting into the real stuff on Thursday."

Hosts France headlined the day and put on an excellent display in front of their home crowd with a 3-0 victory against Canada.

Grégory Gaultier particularly impressed as he conceded just one point in his final game against Nick Sachvie.

Tomorrow is due to see the final round of pool matches played before the ranking matches on Thursday (November 30).