26-Oct, Semi-Finals:
All-English Final in Atlanta
Top seed Vicky Botwright and sixth
seed Jenny Duncalf will meet in an all-English final of the
Women's Atlanta Masters Squash Championship after contrasting
semi-final victories in Atlanta, USA.
Botwright, the world No13 from Manchester, was 2/0 down before she
began to take control of the match against Ireland's Madeline Perry,
the third seed, and stormed to a 3/2 win in 90 minutes.
Perry started the
match with hitting winners in all directions and
took the first game very easy. Botwright
started to get her rhythm in the second but
Perry was playing at her best and
managed to win the second 10/8. The third
and fourth were
one-sided affairs
with Vicky dropping just 5 points.
The final game was a thriller, with Madeline
leading 5- 2 and 7-5 but unable to close
the door on a determined
Vicky, who recovered to 7-7 all, then
a penalty stroke to 8-7
match ball, and finally a long rally to clinch the victory 9-7 in the
fifth.
"I'm delighted to win," said Vicky, "and I'm
looking forward to tomorrow's final."
Perry was reflective in defeat. "It's the best
I've ever played against Vicky," she said, "but I was disappointed not
to close it out when I was nearly there at 7-5 in the fifth."
Despite being extended in the
second game, Duncalf needed only three games to overcome Netherlands'
fifth seed Annelize Naude in a 9-6 10-8 9-5 scoreline.
The 20-year-old from Harrogate in Yorkshire is celebrating her debut
in a WISPA World Tour final, and both finalists are chasing their
maiden WISPA tour title.
25-Oct, Quarters:
Euro Advance in Atlanta
The semi-finals of the Atlanta Masters will be all-European
affairs, as the Pan Am and Asian Games champions went out in the
quarter-finals at the Concourse Club in Atlanta.
England's top seed Vicky Botwright
cruised past Pan Am Games champion Latasha Khan as she continued her
quest for a maiden WISPA title, and now meets Ulster's Madeline
Perry who crushed Wendy Maitland 9-4, 9-0, 9-1.
The Netherlands' Annelize Naude defeated
Asian Games Champion Rebecca Chiu in five games - all finishing 9-6 -
to set up a semi-final against England's Jenny Duncalf, who
beat first round giant-killer Alison Waters in four games.
24-Oct
Waters Wipes Out Nimmo In Atlanta
England's unseeded Alison Waters pulled off a sensational
upset on the opening day's play in the Women's Atlanta Masters Squash
Championship in Atlanta, USA, when she despatched Scotland's world No17
Pamela Nimmo in four games.
Waters, ranked 19 places below the second seed from Edinburgh, won 10-8
9-6 3-9 9-5 to earn a place in the quarter-finals, where she will face
compatriot Jenny Duncalf.
Sixth-seeded Duncalf dropped just six points in her 9-3 9-0 9-3
dismissal of Egypt's Salma Shabana.
