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Final: Simon Parke bt Azlan Iskandar  15/6, 15/14, 15/6

This was the 3rd Esporta Open held at the prestigious Esporta Health and Racquets Club in Croydon. A bid thank you to Millfield Partnership, PCL Security and Kelong sponsored the event this year.

We had an excellent entry with a very high standard of players and gets better each year. The weekend started with drama with last years winner Bradley Ball having to retire from his 1st round match due to injury, so we were definitely going to have a new champion.

One highlight of the tournament was Aslan Iskander (9/16 seed) who defeated Adrian Grant, Alex Gough (1 Seed) and Peter Genever to make it all the way to the final. Through the bottom draw a very impressive Simon Parke (Seed 2) came all the way through to the Final without dropping a game.

The final was a very well competed match, fantastic squash with a very accomplished performance from Simon Parke to win 3-0. Congratulation s to Simon and also to Aslan for a fantastic tournament.

See you next year!  Pete Smith

Millfield Partnership
Esporta Open 2003

15/10 15/13 15/4

Azlan Iskandar








Alex Stait

15/11 15/8 15/6

Peter Genever

Azlan Iskandar

17/14 9/15 15/7 10/15 15/4

Peter Genever








Azlan Iskandar

15/6, 15/14, 15/6

Simon Parke









 

Dan Jenson

15/10 15/8 15/7

Simon Parke

12/15 6/15 15/10 15/5 15/5

Stephen Meads


 

Tim Garner

15/13 15/13 15/2

Simon Parke

1st Round Results - Thurs 27th March
 B Ford bt J Barry (3-0) 15/11 15/14 11/15 15/11; B Howell Bt T Mortimer (3-0) 15/9 15/8 15/7; J Nardelli Bt G Harraway (3-(15/6/15/9/15/5; Ben Garner Bt D Harris (3-0) 15/4 15/5 15/5; P Billson Bt X Myburgh (3-0) 15/2 15/6 15/4; L Anjema Bt C Gordon (3-0) 15/5 15/13/15/7; C Payne Bt N Baker (3- 0) 15/6 15/5 15/9; R Bhattachatra Bt S Webster(3-0) 15/5 15/2 15/3; S Ross Bt M Ballands (3-0) 15/3 15/10 15/13; J Robbins Bt O Davidson (3-0)15/9 15/5 15/7; J Engelbreccht Bt S Defries(3-0)15/4 15/3 15/4; M Elford Bt B Ball 14/9 Ret; D Enahalo Bt M Lobb (3-0) 15/3 15/6 15/5; J Barrington Bt D Rannard (3-0) 15/5 15/4 15/12; A Iskander Bt D Barnett (3-0) 15/6 15/4 15/12; G Olby Bt T Gomez (3-2) 8/15 5/15 15/10 15/12 15/7; M Selishio Bt K Johnson (3-0)15/6 15/8 15/2; A Whipp Bt R Mawar (3-0) 15/3 15/6 15/6; C Broadlet Bt P Hughes (3-0) 15/7 15/8 6/0 Ret; A Grant Bt A Learoyd (3-0) 15/9 15/4 15/6; L Elriani Bt T Richards (3-0) 15/9 15/9 15/13; A Stait Bt P Thomas (3-0) 15/9 15/11 15/11; S Ayling Bt A Taylor (3-0) 15/10/15/9 15/3; S Handley Bt D Lewis (3-0) 15/3 15/6 15/11; P Allen Bt M Millar (3-1) 8/15 15/11 15/4 15/11; S Khan Bt M Biggs (3-1) 15/10 15/5 11/15 15/13

ESPORTA OPEN 2002

FINAL:
Bradley Ball bt Peter Genever  15/11, 15/12, 15/8

Suffolk's Bradley Ball claimed his first Prince BSPA Grand Prix title with a comprehensive 3-0 win over top seed Peter Genever to book a place in the end-of-season Grand Prix Finals in Nottingham.

Semi-Finals:
Top seed Peter Genever avenged his defeat at the hands of Stacey Ross in last week's Wimbledon Cup, recovering from a game down to take a 2-1 lead before Ross was forced to retire injured. The Chichester man then faced Adrian Grant in the semis, who had himself recovered from 2-0 down against 3/4 seed Derek Ryan in the quarters. Grant was clearly tired from his efforts, and was unable to withstand Genever's attacks as the top seed went through to his first BSPA final of the season..

Genever's final opponent is Bradley Ball, who scored an emphatic quarter-final victory over 3/4 seed Stephen Meads, followed by a nail-biting semi-final win over second seed Tim Garner. After a tight first game Meads simply collapsed in the quarter, as did Garner in the semis, but not until last week's Wimbledon winner had reached match-ball for a 3-0 victory. Once Ball had taken the third 15/14 Garner had nothing left to give as Ball cruised through to his second BSPA final.

Second Round:
Bradley Ball Bt David Harris 15/2 15/6 15/7
Adam Stevenson Bt Chris Tomlinson 15/10 15/13 15/7
Mohmd Azlan Bt Shahid Khan 15/13 13/15 15/11 15/13
Steve Meads Bt Ben Ford 11/15 15/4 15/9 15/14
Tim Garner Bt Paul Allen 15/10 15/12 15/5
Ben Garner Bt Danny Weights 15/7 15/2 15/8
R Bhattachayra Bt Jason Dodd W/O
Stacey Ross Bt Andrew Learoyd 15/7 15/10 15/5
Peter Genever Bt Nick Wall 15/1 15/8 15/11
Chris Ryder Bt Colin Payne 13/15 15/5 15/4 15/8
Lee Drew Bt Daryl Selby 15/10 15/10 16/17 15/7
Adrian Grant Bt Jesse Engelbrcht 15/6 15/6 15/11
Mick Robberds Bt Lee Jemmett 15/7 15/5 15/13
Ben Howell Bt Steve Richardson 15/11 15/10 15/6
Derek Ryan Bt Jason Robbins 10/15 15/13 13/15 15/12 15/6
Andy Whipp Bt Martin Ballands 15/8 15/10 15/12

Thursday Results:
Nick Wall Bt James Smith 15/13 15/14 13/15 12/15 15/12
Colin Payne Bt Paul Thomas 17/15 15/3 15/12
Chris Ryder Bt Clinton Gallard 15/9 15/10 15/2
Lee Drew Bt Jago Nardelli 15/7 15/6 15/6
Daryl Selby Bt Steve Defries 15/13 15/5 15/11
Andrew learoyd Bt Buzby Williams 15/7 15/5 15/10
Adrian Grabt Bt Toby Mortimer 15/6 15/4 15/8
Jesse Engelbrecht Bt Mark Steeden 15/7 15/9 15/5
Mick Robberds Bt Richard Rowley 10/15 15/9 15/13 15/13
Ben Howell Bt Jason Barry 17/14 15/11 15/6
Steve Richardson Bt David Mann 15/9 15/6 15/6
James Robbins Bt Matt Crowley 15/10 15/8 15/10
Shahid Khan Bt Steve Ayling 15/9 12/15 15/11 14/17 15/12
Mohmd Azian Bt Mathew Bolt 15/10 15/9 15/10
Adam Stevenson Bt Adrian Ezra 15/1 15/7 15/6
Chris Tomlinson Bt Nic Birt 15/12 15/8 15/3
David Harris Bt Mo Soliman 15/9 15/10 17/15
Ben Garner Bt Will Jones 15/9 15/2 15/4
Danny Weights Bt Adham Abou-Taleb 9/15 15/9 15/8 10/15 3/2 ret
R.Bhattachayra Bt David Barnett 15/8 15/7 15/8
Martin Ballands Bt G.Tippings W/O
Andy Whipp Bt Chris Hawkes W/O
Jason Dodd Bt David Rannard 11/15 11/15 15/6 15/8 17/16
Paul Allen Bt Guy Olby 14/17 15/10 13/15 15/7 15/7

2001 Event

Esporta Open - 30-Mar~01-Apr

The impressive Esporta Health & Fitness Club in Croydon played host to the fifth event on the Prince Grand Prix. After different winners in the previous four tournaments, Tim Garner repeated his success in the Proctor Memorial, picking up the inaugural Esporta Open, with a hard fought win over Irish no.1 and top seed Derek Ryan.

On his way to the final Garner had won over the local support despite knocking out both Esporta club coaches James Robbins and Ben Ford! In the semis, Garner faced Bradley Ball, who had been equally ruthless in despatching Eric McAlpine and Lee Jemmett in straight games. Ball had knocked Garner out at the same stage of the Youngs Wimbledon Cup and looked to be on his way to a repeat victory. He raced to a two game lead as Garner lost his way after a couple of suspect refereeing calls. However, the Prince Grand Prix leader was not done and dug deep to extend the rallies and test Ball's fitness. It looked as though this had paid off as he drew level and then opened up a 12-6 lead in the fifth, but Ball bounced back to trail 11-12 before Garner was able to close out the match.

Meanwhile in the top half of the draw, Irish Champion Ryan dropped the first game against Julian Wellings in the quarters before turning it around and then followed a similar pattern to defeat Paul Lord in the semis. Lord led 1-0 and 13-10 but that was as close as he came, seeming to tire, perhaps the result of tough four game battle with Adam Stevenson in the morning.

In the final, it was Ryan who this time won the first, cleverly controlling the pace with lobs and drops. Garner upped the pace in the second to level at one apiece, but was unable to get away. Ryan pegged him back and it was tight all the way to the wire. Ryan squandered game balls at 14-13 and 16-14 and after tinning the return of serve at 16-16 looked to be a spent force. The pattern of the match was marred by once again some inconsistent refereeing and, whilst Ryan was hard done by on several occasions, he used the arguments and resulting disruptions to get back from 7-12 to lead 13-12. At 14-13 he had a game ball to tie things up but Garner kept his calm to claim his second title of the year, 17-15 in the fourth after 95 minutes.

Head pro & tournament organiser Pete Smith did a fantastic job on his first professional tournament and nowhere was this more evident than the grassroots junior tournaments that were run alongside the BSPA event. Over 40 juniors battled it out for prizes supplied by Prince and they were also rewarded by a visit from World Champion Peter Nicol to the club on the Saturday. Nicol signed T-shirts and posters for the youngsters and commented how great it was to see so many kids enjoying the sport. 
 

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