Jeremy Saywell (white robe) during his bout against Manjeet Nandal. Photo: Paul Zammit Cutajar

Malta was left with no squash player in the Commonwealth Games main singles events following the exit of Brad Hindle Deguara from the Round of 32 at the Scotstoun Campus yesterday evening.

Hindle Deguara was the country’s only hope in the sport following the exits of Daniel Zammit Lewis, Kim Borg Cauchi and Colette Sultana earlier in the day.

After beating Welshman Scott Fitzgerald 3-0 in the opening round of the men’s singles, Hindle Deguara looked on course to make further progress in the tournament when winning the opening set against Ivan Yuen, of Malaysia.

However, Yuen hit back strongly and made sure of his place in the last 16 with favourable game scores of 11-8, 11-7 and 11-8 to beat Hindle Deguara 3-1.

Zammit Lewis lost against Guyana’s Sunil Seth 3-0 and Borg Cauchi went down by the same score to Deon Saffery, of Wales.

Sultana opened a 2-0 lead in her match against Sri Lankan Mihiliya Methsarani.

However, she failed to keep the momentum going and lost the next three games to suffer an early elimination. The first rounds from the Plate events start today.

At the Kelvingrove centre, Leonard Callus and John Parnis, representing Malta in the lawn bowls pairs event, had mixed fortunes following an 18-16 win over Northern Ireland and a 15-18 loss to Samoa.

The Maltese pair’s next matches in Section C will be against Canada, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.

In women’s singles, a below-par Carmen Spiteri was left with a mountain to climb after a 21-7 loss to England’s Nathalie Melmore and another heavy 21-3 upset to Kenya player Miriam Ndungu in her second Group C match.

High placings were always going to be a difficult proposition for triathletes Keith Galea and Danica Bonello Spiteri with most of the top contenders on the international scene this season vying for the medals in Glasgow.

Galea tried hard to stay in contention but he was disqualified from the field after being lapped in the cycling segment.

The men’s triathlon title went to England’s Alistair Brownlee after a dominant display.

The Olympic champion duelled with younger brother Jonathan for much of the race but pulled away over the last five kilometres to take the gold.

He crossed the finish line in one hour 48 minutes 50 seconds at the Strathclyde Country Park, 11 seconds ahead of his sibling. South Africa’s Richard Murray finished strongly to take bronze.

Bonello Spiteri also fought bravely to avoid being scratched from the women’s triathlon and she succeeded in reaching her objective with a time of 2:21.14.

The Malta champion was classified 15th overall as England’s Jodie Stimpson went on to claim the first gold medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

There were 16 triathletes who completed the women’s race while eight others failed to finish.

Meanwhile, judoka Jeremy Saywell, 21, was unable to move past the preliminary round (last 32) in the -66kg category as he was stopped from advancing by India’s Manjeet Nandal.

Nandal, who qualified for the bronze medal match, took less than three minutes to secure the bout after winning the contest against Saywell by O-soto-gari.