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Barfoot & Thompson
Panmure Open |
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Barfoot & Thompson
Panmure Open
Men's Draw
13 - 15 May
Aukland, New Zealand, $6k |
Final:
[1] Lwamba Chileshe (NZL) bt [2] Temwa Chileshe (NZL) 11-9, 11-6, 11-9
(40m)
Semi-finals:
[1] Lwamba Chileshe (NZL) bt [4] Duncan Lee (MAS) 11-7, 11-5, 11-9 (45m)
[2] Temwa Chileshe (NZL) bt [3] Wee Ming Hock (MAS) 5-11, 13-11, 11-9,
3-11, 11-9 (55m)
Quarter-finals:
[1] Lwamba Chileshe (NZL) bt [6] Anthony Lepper (NZL) 11-8, 11-5, 11-6
(40m)
[4] Duncan Lee (MAS) bt Amir Amirul (MAS) 11-5, 12-14, 11-8, 12-10 (45m)
[3] Wee Ming Hock (MAS) bt [8] Nicholas Calvert (AUS) 11-5, 6-11, 11-4,
12-10 (45m)
[2] Temwa Chileshe (NZL) bt [5] Hafiz Zhafri (MAS) 15-13, 11-7, 11-8
(45m)
1st round:
[1] Lwamba Chileshe (NZL) bt Damon MacMillan (AUS) 11-7, 11-7, 11-9
(35m)
[6] Anthony Lepper (NZL) bt Benjamin Ratcliffe (AUS) 12-10, 11-3, 12-10
(40m)
Amir Amirul (MAS) bt [7] Sion Wiggin (NZL) 11-9, 11-3, 11-5 (35m)
[4] Duncan Lee (MAS) bt Glenn Templeton (NZL) 11-4, 11-3, 11-7 (30m)
[3] Wee Ming Hock (MAS) bt Allan Bailey (NZL) 11-2, 11-9, 11-3 (30m)
[8] Nicholas Calvert (AUS) bt Mason Smales (NZL) 11-7, 11-4, 5-11, 11-6
(45m)
[5] Hafiz Zhafri (MAS) bt Andrik Lim (MAS) 11-6, 15-13, 11-8 (40m)
[2] Temwa Chileshe (NZL) bt [WC] Elijah Thomas (NZL) 12-10, 9-11, 11-4,
11-5 (45m) |
Seeds Fall On
Women's Opening Day
It was a busy first day at the North Shore Squash Club, with 16 matches
taking place in the first round of the Barfoot and Thompson and Auckland
Open, and there were several shock results.
There were four seeding upsets in the women’s first round, with two of
the top four seeds being dumped out of the tournament. Lana Harrison
overcame No.2 seed Ella Lash in straight games, beating her fellow New
Zealander in just half an hour, and dropping only eleven points in the
process.
Anne Leakey got the better of No.3 seed Vinikashenie Kulasegaran in a
pulsating five-game battle, coming back from 2-1 down to take the
victory in her first ever match on the PSA Challenger Tour. The Kiwi
found herself behind after a strong start from the Malaysian, but Leakey
won the fourth game on a tie-break 12-10, before then going on to win
the deciding game 11-8 to seal the win, to advance to the last eight.
She will now face Maiden-Lee Coe, another unseeded Kiwi teenager, after
the New Zealander got the better of the other Malaysian sibling,
Vitrikashenie Kulasegaran. The first was a lengthy tie-break, which went
the way of the 16-year-old New Zealand 17-15. Kulasegaran then levelled
the match with a win in the second, but Coe went on to win the next tow
games to secure the win, to take her place in the last eight.
New Zealand’s Rachel McLeod was the other woman to cause a seeding upset
on the opening day of the tournament, as she got the better of Hong
Kong’s Wing Hei Jannis Lam in a four-game battle, coming from behind
after losing the first game to win 3-1 and reach the quarter finals.
There were also a couple of surprise results in the men’s event, with
Singapore’s Jerome Aw and New Zealand’s Chris van der Salm both
overcoming higher-ranked opponents to reach the second round. Aw downed
Glenn Templeton, while the Kiwi got the better of compatriot Elijah
Thomas.
The second day of the Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Open will feature both
the second round and quarter finals of the men’s event, along with the
quarters of the women’s event, with action from North Shore Squash Club
on Friday, May 20.
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Lwamba Downs Temwa In All-Chileshe Final
Lwamba Chileshe (right) with the Barfoot & Thompson
Panmure Open
The final of the Barfoot & Thompson Panmure Open was a family
affair, with the Chileshe brothers coming head-to-head. It was older
brother Lwamba that took the victory, beating younger brother Temwa in
straight games in the final.
Chileshe started his week at Panmure Squash Club with a confident
straight games victory over Australia’s Damon Macmillan, before then
defeating fellow New Zealander, and the tournament’s No.6 seed, Anthony
Lepper, also in a three-game contest.
The World No.104 then took on Malaysia’s No.4 seed Duncan Lee in the
semi-finals, and once again, he was able to come through unscathed,
winning in straight games to advance to the final in Auckland.
Coming into the final, the elder of the two siblings had the 3-2
advantage of his younger brother, including winning in two finals last
year, the Northland Open and the Morrinsville Open, but Temwa had won
their last meeting, which came at the Val de Reuil Normandie earlier
this year.
The final of the Barfoot & Thompson Panmure Open went the way of the
elder brother, with Lwamba winning in straight games to come through the
Challenger 3 level tournament without dropping a game, claiming his
third title on Tour following those two victories last year. |
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