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Semi-finals:
Berg & Heather In Maiden
PSA Tour Title Bid In Atlanta
Canada's Viktor Berg and Englishman Mark Heather will meet in the
final of the Atlanta Open in Georgia, USA, with each seeking to
claim his first title on the PSA Tour.
Top seed Berg, 25, from Toronto, survived a close four-game semi-final
battle with third-seeded Welshman Gavin Jones to win 15-10 15-12 14-15
15-10 and reach his fifth Tour final - but his first since December
2001.
Heather, the 26-year-old sixth seed from Portsmouth, needed only three
games to overcome unseeded Irishman John Rooney 15-8 15-14 15-6 in the
other semi-final to register his fourth appearance in a PSA Tour
final.
Quarter-finals:
JONES DEFIES BARRINGTON COMEBACK
While Viktor Berg, John Rooney and Mark Heather all
enjoyed a comfortable passage into the quarter-finals of the Atlanta
Open at the Concourse Club, Welshman Gavin Jones needed a full two
hours to see off the challenge of England'sJoey Barrington.
Jones established a 2-0 lead, but
Barrington pegged it back to two-all. Jones had match-balls at 14-11
in the fifth, but again Barrington came back to claim match-balls of
his own at 14-al and 16-all before Jones clinched the final point.
Jones meets Canada's top seed
Viktor Berg in the semi-finals, with the winner to meet either John
Rooney or Mark Heather in the final.
First Round:
FITZGERALD TAKES OUT
KORSBJERG IN ATLANTA
All but two of the seeded players progressed to the
quarter-finals at Atlanta's Concourse Athletic Club, the exceptions
being second seed Mikkel Korsbjerg, who lost out in four to Wales'
Scott Fitzgerald, and Mexico's third seed who retired from 2-0 down to
Pakistan's veteran Kumail Mehood.
Preview:
BERG TOP SEED FOR ATLANTA 2003
Held at Atlanta's Concourse Athletic Club, the
Atlanta Open is a well-established event on the PSA tour. Organised by
Andre Maur, it always attracts a strong European entry, and this year
is no exception with 9 Europeans in the main draw.
Canada's Viktor Berg is seeded to meet Denmark's Mikkel Korsbjerg in
the final.
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2002 Event
Atlanta Open, USA, 15-19 May 2002,
$5k
Final:
[1] Bradley Ball (Eng) bt [Q] Marcos Smith (Aus) 15/10, 17/15, 15/5
Smith Gets Super Ball Treatment In Atlanta
England's Bradley Ball collected his third PSA Tour title of the
year when he beat Australian qualifier Marcus Smith in the final.Top
seed Ball was taken to five games by unseeded Zambian Robby Lingashi in the
semi-finals, but the 25-year-old from Ipswich clinched the title in straight
games with a 15-10 17-15 15-5 win over Smith.
The Georgia final marked the third reached this year by Smith against the
odds. Ranked just inside the top 200 at the beginning of the year, Smith
reached the Rocafort Open final in Spain in January as a qualifier (where he
was beaten by Ball) - then last week clinched the Dartmouth Mudbowl Open
title unseeded. After qualifying in Atlanta, the Netherlands-based
25-year-old beat the 2nd and 8th seeds before bravely bowing out to the
favourite in the final.
Semi-Finals:
[1] Bradley Ball (Eng) bt Robby Lingashi (Zam) 15/9, 15/9, 16/17,
14/17, 15/6
[Q] Marcos Smith (Aus) bt Shawn De Lierre (Can) 15/12, 17/15, 15/12
Quarter-Finals:
[1] Bradley Ball (Eng) bt Stacy Ross (Eng) 15/8, 15/10, 8/15, 15/7
Robby Lingashi (Zam) bt Michael Hopkins (Eng) 7/15, 14/17, 15/6, 15/8,
15/11
Shawn De Lierre (Can) bt David McNeely (Usa) 11/15, 13/15, 17/14, 15/9,
15/10
[Q] Marcos Smith (Aus) bt [2] Viktor Berg (Can) 15/9, 5/15, 17/15, 15/7
First Round:
[1] Bradley Ball (Eng) bt [Q] Laurens Anjema (Ned) 17/14, 13/15, 15/9,
15/3
Stacy Ross (Eng) bt [Q] Ben Howell (Eng) 15/10, 15/9, 15/6
bt [4] John Rooney (Irl) 15-10 default
Robby Lingashi (Zam) bt Ian Power (Can) 15/9, 17/14, 15/8
David McNeely (Usa) bt Matt Jenson (Aus) 15/12, 15/9, 15/4
Shawn De Lierre (Can) bt Mikkel Korsbjerg (Den) 12/15, 7/15, 15/12, 15/13,
15/8
[Q] Marcos Smith (Aus) bt Jago Nardelli (Eng) 15/10, 15/9, 15/12
[2] Viktor Berg (Can) bt [Q] Alex Stait (Eng) 12/15, 17/15, 5/15, 15/11,
15/14
Qualifying finals:
Howell bt River; Anjema bt Korsberg; Stait bt Guiffre; Smith bt Santo
Qualifying round one:
Ben Howell (Eng) bye;
Beau River (Usa) bt
Tim Wyant (Usa) w/o;
Laurens Anjema (Ned) bt
Patrick Chifunda (Zam) 15/12,
15/8, 15/7;
Mads Korsberg (Den) bt
Mark Burke (Aus) 15/6, 6/15,
15/10, 15/11;
Alex Stait (Eng) bt
Rob McFadzean (Usa) 15/10,
15/13, 15/7;
Matthew Guiffre (Can) bt
Imran Khan (Pak) 15/11,
15/13, 15/7;
Marius Smith (Aus) bt
Tony James (Aus) 12/15,
15/6, 15/13, 13/15,
15/9; Ronivaldo Santo (Bra)
bye
2001 Event Final:
[1] Nick Matthew (ENG) bt [3] Michael Robberds
(AUS) 15-13 9-15 15-13 15-13 (70m)
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Halco
Atlanta Open