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18-Oct:
White too strong
for the Frenchman ...

Tim Garner reports from Oslo

John White won the Mamut Oslo Open with an impressive display over Frenchman Renan Lavigne.

White controlled the match from the start entertaining the crowd with his trademark kills and powerful drives, that had Lavigne scurrying from corner to corner. However, he was soon leading 2-0 but a serious lapse in concentration allowed his opponent to take the third 9-0 before White got back on track to close out the match in four games.

Earlier, Peter Nicol had beaten friend, and fellow Eventis director, Tim Garner in a relaxed 3/4 play-off. Nicol won the first but Garner saved two match balls in the second to edge it 9/8 before running out of steam in the third as Nicol showed his class to the capacity crowd.

With Norwegian Television in attendance all weekend the event should raise the profile of the sport as they plan a sports show and an entertainment show about the tournament this week.


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Mamut Oslo Open 2004
15-17 Oct, Oslo, Norway  
1st Round
Fri 15th
Quarters
Sat 16th
Semis
Sat 16th
Final
Sun 17th
[1] Peter Nicol (Eng)
Kristian Solhaug
Peter Nicol

Richard Larsson
Peter Nicol

3/2

Renan Lavigne
Renan Lavigne
 

John White
3/1

Audun Thronæs
Richard Larsson
Angus Kirkland (Irl)
Øyvind Viken
Angus Kirkland

Renan Lavigne
Bye
[3] Renan Lavigne (Fra)
[4] Tim Garner (England)
Hans-Olav Torgersen
Tim Garner

Michael Frilund
Tim Garner


John White
Stig Kobbevik
Michael Frilund (Den)
Marius Kjeldahl
Stig Olsen
Stig Olsen

John White
Bye
[2] John White (Sco)
 
Reports
17-Oct:
Lavigne shocks
Nicol in Oslo ...


Thanks to the relationship between Eventis Sports Marketing and Mamut, which saw the Norwegian business software company take title sponsorship of the English Open this year, Norwegian squash fans are being treated to a display of world class squash this weekend in the Mamut Oslo Open.

Top seeded world number two Peter Nicol eased through local opposition to reach the semi-final, where he suffered his first-ever defeat at the hands of Frenchman Renan Lavigne.

Lavigne is set to face Scotland's John White in the final after White beat Nicol's Eventis partner Tim Garner in their semi-final.
Renan Lavigne:

“Even if my first victory over Peter Nicol is not going to count for the PSA ranking, it is for me a very beautiful moment, as Mr Peter Nicol IS, no matter what, « The Boss ».

After winning the first game, I was already “in the red”, and couldn’t do anything in the next 2 games, if only trying to recover and wait for the storm to pass…

In the 4th, he started to drop a little, and I gave everything I had. And it worked, but although I had a comfortable lead in the 5th, Peter had what looked like a “pride reaction”, and came back to 7/7.

We stayed at that score for a while, and once again, through everything I had in the battle, and got my first ever victory over the Man Himself…”

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