1st qualifying round: Guhan Senthilkumar (IND) bt
Jason van der Walt (NZL) 11-4, 11-4, 11-6 Abhay Singh (IND) bt David
Ilich (AUS) 11-7, 9-11, 11-8, 11-6
Harinder Pal Sandhu, whose father Harpal Singh
Sandhu is an SP with Punjab Police, won the eighth PSA title of his career
with an 11-8, 12-10, 11-4 win over Rhys Dowling of Australia in the South
Australian Open Squash Championships in Adelaide. Prior to this, Sandhu
defeated top seed Piedro Schweertman in the semi-final.
“This is my
first ever PSA title in Australia and it feels really good after a hard
week. It was Rhys Dowling’s third final in a row and to break his winning
run means a lot. I told myself to refocus and win point by point. The
conditions here in Australia are cold at this time of the year and I am not
used to playing in the cold. So, I had to hit the ball with a lot of
pressure. The break after the two PSA titles in May was good for me and I
will be playing in Melbourne next week,” said Harinder Pal Sandhu.
Final: [3] Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND) bt [4] Rhys Dowling (AUS)
11-8, 12-10, 11-4 (40m)
Semi-finals: [3] Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu
(IND) bt [1] Piedro Schweertman (NED) 11-8, 14-12, 7-11, 11-9 (61m) [4]
Rhys Dowling (AUS) bt Robert Dadds (ENG) 11-9, 11-6, 11-9 (33m)
Quarter-finals: [1] Piedro Schweertman (NED) bt [6] Thomas Calvert (AUS)
11-9, 11-4, 11-3 (31m) [3] Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND) bt [5] Ko
Youngjo (KOR) 11-3, 11-3, 11-9 (28m) [4] Rhys Dowling (AUS) bt Jongmyoung
Park (KOR) 6-11, 2-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-8 (59m) Robert Dadds (ENG) bt [2]
Leandro Romiglio (ARG) 11-3, 4-11, 11-3, 5-4 ret. (24m)
Harinder Pal Sandhu
bags his ninth PSA title at the Victorian Open
India's
Harinder Pal Sandhu continued his immaculate run of form as he claimed his
ninth PSA title by winning the Victoria Open in Melbourne. Sandhu now has
the most number of titles for an Indian male player in the professional
circuit as he went past Ritwik Bhattacharya's earlier record of eight.
In the final, the third seeded Harinder beat the top seed Rex Hedrick of
Australia, a player who is several rungs above the Indian in world rankings,
12-14, 11-3, 11-4, 11-7.
Except for the first game which went close
and in the Australian's favour Harinder was at his best thereafter as he
combined power and precision to wear down the local favourite in 77 minutes.
This has been an amazing 17-match unbeaten streak for the Indian
starting with the Malaysian Tour success in early May. The Makati Open in
Philippines and the South Australian Open victory followed before this
latest success.
India's star player and top seed Dipika Pallikal suffered a shocking defeat
against second seed Millie Tomlinson of England in the finals of the
Victoria Open squash.
Pallikal lost 11-6, 4-11, 11-3, 7-11, 9-11 to Tomlinson in the all important
final match to finish runners-up at the PSA Tour fixture here.
After cruising through to the title round, Dipika met with resistance but
did not believe this would turn into a stumbling block.
The
two players traded two games each before the English player ended the 80-min
script in her favour with a confident finish.
Final: [1] Joe Lee (ENG) bt [2] Rex Hedrick (AUS) 11-1, 8-4 ret.
(28m)
Semi-finals: [1] Joe Lee (ENG) bt [3] Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND) 11-8,
11-4, 12-10 (59m) [2] Rex Hedrick (AUS) bt [8] Kush Kumar (IND) 11-5, 11-7, 11-5
(45m)
Quarter-finals: [1] Joe Lee (ENG) bt [6] Arthur Gaskin (IRL) 11-0, 11-8, 11-8
(35m) [3] Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND) bt [7] Evan Williams (NZL)
9-11, 11-2, 11-2, 11-7 (51m) [4] Reiko Peter (SUI) v [8] Kush Kumar (IND) [2]
Rex Hedrick (AUS) v [5] Joel Makin (WAL)
Sandeep Ramachandran goes down fighting in semi-finals of Tasmanian
Open in Australia
Playing two PSA matches on the same day took a toll on the relatively
inexperienced 19-year-old rising squash ace Sandeep Ramachandran. The young
Indian bowed out of the $5,000 Tasmanian Open in Devonport, Australia in the
semi-finals but not before asserting himself.
Final:
[1] Zac Alexander (AUS) bt [3] Ko Youngjo (KOR) 11-8, 11-1, 11-4 (30m)
2nd seed Lucas Serme Surprises 1st seed
Salzburg in Austrian Open
It was a case of sixth time lucky
for No2 seed Lucas Serme when the Frenchman upset top-seeded Dane Kristian
Frost Olesen in the finals of the Austrian Open, the PSA Challenger 5 squash
event at Tenniscourt Sud in Salzburg.
The top two seeds reached the
finals of the event celebrating its fifth successive year in Salzburg in
contrasting styles. In the Semi-Finals Olesen despatched Swiss opponent
Reiko Peter in straight games while Serme came back from two games down
against fourth seed Mahesh Mangaonkar to force a decider – then the Indian
was forced to retire midway through the game suffering with severe cramp.
Final: [2] Lucas Serme (FRA) bt [1] Kristian Frost
Olesen (DEN) 11-7, 5-11, 12-10, 11-3 (81m)
At Eastside Squash Centre, Bellerive, Tasmania, Australia
(18-21 July 2013)
Antonella wins her 1st title
: 21 July 2013
Argentine Antonella Falcione won her first title on the women’s tour in her first ever final when she upset second seed Melody Francis 11-7, 11-6, 12-10
Quarter-finals: [1] Kylie Lindsay (NZL) v [10] Aparajitha Balamurukan (IND)
[3] Sarah Cardwell (AUS) v [7] Antonella Falcione (ARG)
[4] Christine Nunn (AUS) v [5] Song Sun-Mi (KOR)
[2] Melody Francis (AUS) v [11] Kim Ga-Hye (KOR)
Campbell Grayson Retains Victorian Open Crown: 14 July 2013
New Zealand's Campbell Grayson retained his Victorian Open title in style in Melbourne when he defeated Australian hope Steven Finitsis in straight games in the final of the PSA World Tour Challenger 10 squash event at the Melbourne Sports & Aquatic
Centre.
Coline Aumard completed
a Aussie double yesterday after clinching the $5,000 Women's NT Link Alice
Springs Open, her second victory in as many weeks.
Victorious in last week’s NT Open in
Darwin
, Aumard continued her dominance as top seed in this weekend’s event at
Alice Springs
, where a first round bye saw her through to round two.
Final: [1] Coline Aumard (FRA) bt [2] Milou van der Heijden (NED) 11-8, 11-8,
9-11, 15-13 (64m)
Semi-finals: [1] Coline Aumard (FRA) bt [5] Tamika Saxby (AUS) 11-4, 14-12, 11-5
(35m)
[2] Milou van der Heijden (NED) bt [6] Song Sun-Mi (KOR) 12-10, 11-8, 11-6
(40m)
Amanda
Landers-Murphy claimed her third WSA World Tour title on
Australian soil after winning the 2012 Hitachi Queensland Open
The
New Zealand international is yet to win a title outside of Australia, but
the top seed came through a four-game battle against Olga Ertlova to clinch
victory.
Having
received a bye through the first round, the world No.45 made short work of
Grace McErvale, before coming back from a game behind to defeat Lotte
Eriksen of Denmark in the quarter finals.She then
defeated South African No.6 seed Cheyna Tucker in the semi’s to set up the
final contest against the Czech.
There
was a major shock in the second round when India’s Aparajitha Balamurukan
downed second seeded Victorian Melody Francis, on the comeback trail after
ankle surgery, 11-8, 11-9, 11-7.
However,
the Indian’s run was short lived as she lost her quarter-final to
England’s Victoria Bell 11-3, 11-6, 6-11, 11-7
Alankamony stuns Lindsay to win Ipswich
Open, Queensland, Australia: 21st Oct 2012
India’s Anaka Alankamony claimed her second title on the women’s professional squash tour when she stunned top seed Kylie Lindsay of New Zealand to win the Ipswich Open in Queensland, Australia.
The 18-year-old from Chennai took advantage of a string of errors from the world number 39 to win in straight games 11-8, 13-11, 11-5 in hot and humid conditions.
Alankamony had earlier beaten sixth seeded South African Cheyna Tucker in the semi-finals and fourth ranked Christine Nunn in the quarters to complete a weekend of upsets.
She settled far quicker than Lindsay in the final and took control in all three games to record a comfortable win.
“It’s been an amazing week for me, I was seventh seed for this tournament so it feels really good to win,” she said.
“I train in Chennai and it’s very humid there and I think it was a big advantage for me because it is a similar climate to over there,” she said.
“The climate didn’t really affect me – I really enjoyed playing here.”
Defending champion Nicol David of Malaysia won her second consecutive Hi-Tec Australian Open when she beat a gallant Laura Massaro in an enthralling women's final in Canberra's Royal Theatre.
David saved six game points in the crucial opening game then overwhelmed the Englishwoman in the next two to win 17-15, 11-2, 11-6 for her 62nd title on the women's tour.
Dipika Pallikal became the first Indian to enter the semifinals of a Gold Series event when she recorded a straight sets win over Amanda Sobhy in the Australian Squash Open in the Quarter Finals.
But in the Semi Finals Massaro came from 5-9 in the deciding fifth game to beat Pallikal and deny India a first ever finalist in a major tournament.
Pallikal had played superbly to take the fourth game 11-3 and opened a big lead in the fifth before faltering under the pressure of Massaro's comeback.
After beginning the match strongly, Massaro began to struggle to cope with Pallikal's deceptiveness at the front of the court.
Pallikal was unlucky to lose the third in a tiebreak then dominated until the late stages of the fifth.
She will be rueing losing a match that even her opponent conceded she should have won.
"At 9-5 down in the fifth I'd just decided I'd lost really and I just wanted to finish well and make the score respectable," Massaro said.
Final:
[1] Nicol David (MAS) bt [3] Laura Massaro (ENG) 17-15, 11-2, 11-6 (44m)
Semi-finals: [1] Nicol David (MAS) bt [4] Madeline Perry (IRL) 11-7, 11-4, 11-5
[3] Laura Massaro (ENG) bt [11] Dipika Pallikal (IND) 11-7, 7-11, 13-11, 3-11, 11-9
Women’s Quarter-finals: [1] Nicol David (MAS) bt Alison Waters (ENG) 10-12, 11-1, 11-7, 15-13 (68m)
[4] Madeline Perry (IRL) bt [8] Kasey Brown (AUS) 11-4, 11-5, 11-6 (33m)
[3] Laura Massaro (ENG) bt [12] Donna Urquhart (AUS) w/o
[11] Dipika Pallikal (IND) bt Amanda Sobhy (USA) 11-5, 11-7, 12-10 (32m)
Defending champion Ramy
Ashour was at his brilliant best as he downed fellow Egyptian Omar Mosaad
in straight games to win his second Hi-Tec Australian Open crown in
Canberra
.
Ashour took 53 minutes
to see off the tall and powerful Mosaad 11-9, 11-9, 11-6, thrilling the
big crowd with the audacity of his stroke play in the climax of the PSA
World Tour International 70 squash event in
Canberra
's Royal Theatre.
RESULTS: PSA
International 70 Hi-Tec Australian Open,
Canberra
,
Australia
Ravi
Dixit lost in 2nd round to James Earles of England in the
PSA Challenger 5 event Tasmanian Open at Eastside Squash
in Bellerive, Tasmania, Australia.
In the finals
Aqeel Rehman, a world-ranked member of the Professional Squash
Association since 2005, won his maiden PSA World Tour
title. The 26-year-old from Salzburg made his long-awaited breakthrough when
he beat Argentina's Gonzalo Miranda 11-8, 11-7, 6-11, 11-4 to
become the first Austrian ever to win a men's pro squash title.
RESULTS: PSA
Challenger 5 Tasmanian Open, Bellerive, Tasmania, Australia
1st round: Ravi Dixit (IND) bt [5]
Alex Phillips (ENG)
11-9, 9-11, 6-11, 11-3, 11-5 (47m)
2nd round: James Earles (ENG) bt
Ravi Dixit (IND) 11-6,
10-12, 11-4, 12-10 (42m)
Dixit unlucky in Semi's, while Hindle Takes SquashWorks Title
: At Belmont, WA, Australia (30/8/2011)
Australian-born Bradley Hindle upset top seed Mike Corren in the final of the SquashWorks Open in Western Australia to take the PSA World Tour Challenger 5 title at SquashWorks in Belmont.
Second seed Hindle reached the final after ending Valentino Bong's brave run, stopping the unseeded Malaysian in four games in the semi-finals.
Corren, a 37-year-ol veteran of 35 PSA World Tour titles, cruised through to the final without dropping a game - reaching the 52nd of his career after despatching India's No4 seed Ravi Dixit in the other semi.
Ravi Dixit had it easy in the second round when he beat Kim Young from Korea, but had a tough time when he took on Tarek of Egypt in the Quarters. But he survived after being 2 up in the game and beat him. But his luck ran out when he lost 2nd seed Mike Corren of Australia in the semi finals.
RESULTS
Final:
[2] Bradley Hindle (MLT) bt [1] Mike Corren (AUS) 14-12, 11-5, 6-11, 11-0
(57m) Semi-finals: [1] Mike Corren (AUS) bt [4] Ravi Dixit (IND) 11-7, 11-8, 11-6 (27m)
[2] Bradley Hindle (MLT) bt Valentino Bong (MAS) 11-9, 9-11, 11-3, 11-4 (52m)
Quarter-finals: [4] Ravi Dixit (IND) bt Tarek Salah Shehata (EGY) 12-10, 11-9, 5-11, 11-1 (52m)
2nd round:
[4] Ravi Dixit (IND) bt Kim Sung Young (KOR) 11-9, 11-5, 11-9 (24m)
Dipika & Saurav loses while Ramy Ashour Claims Australian Open Crown
Egypt
's Ramy Ashour showed just why he is considered the most exciting squash
player in the world when he came from behind to overcome defending champion
Nick Matthew in today's enthralling final of the Viridian Australian Open,
the third PSA World Series event of the year in
Canberra
.
Final: [2] Ramy Ashour (EGY) bt [1] Nick Matthew
(ENG) 12-14, 11-6, 10-12, 11-8, 11-4
Semifianls: Nick Matthew bt David Palmer 11-9, 11-4, 11-5 (54m)
Ramy Ashour bt Gregory Gaultier 7-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-9 (64m)
Quarter-finals: [1] Nick Matthew (ENG) bt Laurens Jan
Anjema (NED) 11-5, 11-9, 7-11, 11-5 (68m) David Palmer (AUS) bt [3] Karim
Darwish (EGY) 11-3, 10-12, 11-8, 12-10 (60m) [5] Gregory Gaultier (FRA) bt [4]
James Willstrop (ENG) 7-11, 12-10, 11-4, 11-5 (69m) [2] Ramy Ashour (EGY) bt [6] Peter
Barker (ENG) 5-11, 11-9, 11-4, 11-4 (42m)
PSA
Challenger 5 Millicent Open,
South Australia
: 12 June 2011
Indefatigable
Australian Mike Corren celebrated his 50th appearance in a PSA World Tour
squash event final at the Millicent Open today in Millicent - the town where
he was born - then successfully defended his title to pick up the 35th
trophy of his career.
Mahesh
Mangaokar started the tournament when he upset Nathan Stevenson of
Australia
in the first round. The 5th game was a very long fought one with the
score reaching 20-18 before Mahesh won 3-2. Mahesh won the second round very
easily but in the quarters he lost to 8th seed Elvinn Keo of
Malaysia
by 1-3.
Final: [1] Mike Corren (AUS) bt [2] Rex Hedrick (AUS) 11-7, 11-8, 11-5
Golden
Open PSA World Tour Challenger 5,
At the YMCA in Kalgoorlie
,Western Australia
Australia
's Matthew Karwalski beat Englishman Anthony Graham in the final of the
Golden Open to win the PSA World Tour Challenger 5 squash title at the YMCA
in
Kalgoorlie
,
Western Australia
.
Mahesh had the 1st round
win very easily against Joseph of
new Zealand
but in the quarters he had to face no 1 seeded Mathew of Australia and he
still fought and being 2-2 he lost the decider.
Final:
[1] Matthew Karwalski (AUS) bt [3] Anthony Graham (ENG) 11-9, 11-7, 7-11,
11-9 (39m)
Semi-finals:
[1] Matthew Karwalski (AUS) bt [4] Justin Beard (AUS) 11-8, 8-11, 11-6,
7-11, 11-5 (50m)
[3] Anthony Graham (ENG) bt [2] Mike Corren (AUS) 3-11, 11-3, 11-7, 11-6
(48m)
