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09/03/2015
Seattle Open 2015 (Men)

  Stratos Seattle Open 2015
Men's Event
03-08 Mar, Seattle, Usa, $5k

Women's Event
Round One
05 Mar
Quarters
06 Mar
Semis
07 Mar
Final
08 Mar
[1] Omar Abdel Meguid (Egy)
9/11, 12/10, 11/7, 11/6 (50m)
[Q] George Parker (Eng)
Omar Abdel Meguid
11/5, 11/7, 11/8 (50m)
Shahjahan Khan
Omar Abdel Meguid
10/12, 11/6, 11/9, 12/14, 11/5 (140m)
Declan James
Omar Abdel Meguid
11/6, 11/6, 11/7 (45m)
Raphael Kandra
[5] Richie Fallows (Eng)
7/11, 6/11, 11/6, 13/10, 11/9 (140m)
[wc] Shahjahan Khan (Pak)
[6] Julian Illingworth (Eng)
11/5, 8/11, 11/4, 12/10 (45m)
[Q] Ashley Davies (Eng)
Julian Illingworth
11/8, 11/7, 11/6 (47m)
Declan James
[4] Declan James (Eng)
11/7, 11/6, 17/15 (49m)
Rodrigo Pezotta (Arg)
Lewis Walters (Eng)
11/4, 13/11, 11/8 (46m)
[3] Harinderpal Sandhu (Ind)
Harinderpal Sandhu
11/13, 12/10, 11/3, 11/8 (65m)
Dane Sharp
Harinderpal Sandhu
9/11, 11/13, 11/7, 11/3, 11/9
Raphael Kandra
[Q] Anthony Graham (Eng)
11/4, 11/7, 11/8 (35m)
[8] Dane Sharp
(Can)
[Q] Graeme Schnell (Can)
7/11, 11/2, 13/11, 11/9 (60m)
[7] Aqeel Rehman (Aut)
Graeme Schnell
11/7, 12/10,13/15 (54m)
Raphael Kandra
James Huang (Tpe)
11/4, 4/11, 7/11, 11/6, 13/11 (70m)
[2] Raphael Kandra (Ger)
RESULTS: PSA Challenger 10 Stratos Seattle Open, Seattle, USA
Women's Event
Kandra Scores Surprise Seattle Success

#PSAWorldTour

German World No.50 Raphael Kandra celebrated his first ever PSA World Tour win over top seed Omar Abdel Meguid when he defeated the Egyptian 3-0 in the final of the Stratos Seattle Open, PSA Challenger 10 tournament.

Kandra, the event’s No.2 seed, reached his 16th PSA World Tour final after surviving a close five-game semi-final battle with third-seeded Indian Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu while Meguid, the world No.33, also prevailed in a marathon semi, seeing off England’s fourth seed Declan James 10-12, 11-6, 11-9, 12-14, 11-5 after 140-minutes to set up his 17th Tour final.

Ranked 17 places higher and having emerged victorious in their past two meetings, Meguid was the firm favourite to taste glory in the final, but Kandra leapt into action from the off to take the first game 11-6. Meguid, clearly tired after the effort he put in the day before, found it difficult to build any real momentum and Kandra took full advantage of that to take the second game by the same margin.

24-year-old Kandra kept up the assault in the third and powered his way through 11-6, 11-6, 11-7 to collect his second Tour title of the year – an achievement only matched so far by Nick Matthew, the world No.3 from England who last week won his second title of the year at the PSA World Series Windy City Open in Chicago.