RESULTS: Pan American
Squash Championships, Georgetown, Cayman Islands
Men's
Singles Final:
[1] Diego Elias (PER) bt [9/16] Christopher Binnie (JAM)
11-7, 11-8, 11-5 (42m)
Bronze medallists: Todd Harrity (USA), Chris Hanson (USA)
Women's Singles Final:
[1] Amanda Sobhy (USA) bt [9/16] Sabrina Sobhy (USA) 11-3,
11-8, 11-8 (25m)
Bronze medallists: Danielle Letourneau (CAN), Samantha Cornett
(CAN)
Men's Doubles Final:
[2] Alfredo Avila & Cesar Salazar (MEX) bt Andres Duany
& Alonso Escudero (PER) 11-8, 10-11, 11-8 (129m)
Bronze medallists: Robertino Pezzota & Leandro Romiglio (ARG),
Chris Hanson & Todd Harrity (USA)
Women's Doubles Final:
[3/4] Amanda Sobhy & Sabrina Sobhy (USA) bt [3/4] Laura
Tovar & Maria Tovar Perez (COL) 11-5, 11-5 (24m)
Bronze medallists: Giselle Delgado & Anita Pinto (CHI),
Samantha Cornett & Nikki Todd (CAN)
Mixed Doubles Final:
[3/4] Catalina Pelaez & Miguel Angel Rodriguez (COL) bt
[5/8] Marlene West & Cameron Stafford (CAY) 11-8, 11-9
(28m)
Bronze medallists: Antonella Falcione & Gonzalo Miranda (ARG),
Danielle Letourneau & Michael McCue (CAN)
Men's Team Final:
[3/4] MEXICO bt [3/4] COLOMBIA 2/0 [Alfredo Avila bt Juan
Camilo Vargas 11-6, 11-8, 11-5 (30m); Cesar Salazar bt
Miguel Angel Rodriguez 11-9, 11-7, 11-3 (39m)]
Bronze medallists: USA & CANADA
Women's Team Final:
[1] USA bt [2] CANADA 2/0 [Sabrina Sobhy bt Hollie Naughton
11-8, 11-3, 11-5 (25m); Amanda Sobhy bt Samantha Cornett
11-6, 11-6, 11-5 (26m)]
Bronze medallists: COLOMBIA & MEXICO
After the region's
leading players competed for seven titles over seven days at the Pan
American Squash Championships in the Cayman Islands, it was
USA's Amanda Sobhy who emerged as the most decorated athlete with
three gold medals at the South Sound Squash Club in Georgetown.
The 25-year-old world
No.18 from New York kicked off her gold haul by winning the women's
singles title as expected, beating her younger sister Sabrina Sobhy
11-3, 11-8, 11-8. Sabrina, a 9/16 seed, beat three higher-seeded
opponent to set up the first ever PanAm final between two siblings.
Partnering Sabrina,
Amanda collected gold No.2 in the women's doubles with a straight games
final victory over Mexicans Laura Tovar & Maria Tovar Perez
(podium picture below).
It was on the final day
that Sobhy senior struck gold for a third time, leading favourites
USA to a 2/0 win over second seeds Canada in the women's team
final - in a tie that Sabrina also played her part by winning the
opening match to put her country into the lead.
History was made in the men's singles event where Diego Elias
became the event's first Peruvian gold medallist when he beat
Christopher Binnie 11-7, 11-8, 11-5 in the final. But 9/16 seed
Binnie (pictured above, right, with Elias) also had much to be proud
about after dismissing three higher seeds en-route to becoming the first
ever Jamaican to reach the final.
Mexico
won the first of two gold medals in the men's doubles event where second
seeds Alfredo Avila & Cesar Salazar survived a 129-minute
final to see off unseeded Peruvians Andres Duany & Alonso
Escudero 11-8, 10-11, 11-8.
The two Mexicans
(pictured above after clinching the doubles gold) paired up again in the
men's team final where Mexico secured gold after beating fellow
3/4 seeds Colombia 2/0 - the title clinched when underdog
Cesar Salazar claimed his first win in seven years over world No.6
Miguel Angel Rodriguez, ranked 18 places higher.
Rodriguez claimed gold
earlier in the mixed doubles final where, with partner Catalina
Pelaez, he beat local stars Marlene West & Cameron
Stafford, from the Cayman Islands, 11-8, 11-9.
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