Coffee with a Lavazza Smile

At the end of the first day's play the leading pairs come from a broad spectrum of the competing countries. Top of the table are Russia's Marina Kalina and Arseni Shur. They are followed by two French pairs, Daniele Avon and Jean-Louis Stoppa, second and Sabine Tisserand and Jacques Frances, third.

With only this morning's session left to determine the qualifiers several of the favourites are in danger of missing the cut, notably Portugal's Maria Joao Lara and Manuel Capucho, the Franglais pairing of Benedicte Cronier and Paul Hackett, the Austro/Polish alliance of Maria Erhart and Krzysztof Lasocki, the pride of France, Catherine D'Ovidio and Paul Chemla and Italy's Enza Rossano and Antonio Vivaldi.

Performance of the day belonged to Bulgaria's Dessy Popova and Rosen Gunev, who won the second session with 68.5% to rise from 278th to fourteenth