It was 50-50 for the two American women trying to earn a spot in the table of 64 in Friday’s preliminaries for the foil grand prix event in Shanghai. Amy Jia only managed to win one of her six pool matches and was eliminated there but Madison Zeiss went 4-2 and earned a knockout match for a spot in the table of 64. Zeiss got 13-8 win over China’s Jiaxin Huang to earn a fourth US spot in the table of 64 along with Lee Kiefer, Nzingha Prescod, and Nicole Ross who all had byes into the table of 64.

The men’s competition gets underway with two Americans in the preliminaries: Drew Johnston and Axel Kiefer. Four other Americans, Alexander Massialas, Gerek Meinhardt, Race Imboden, and Miles Chamley-Watson, already have spots in the table of 64 locked up.

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