05/06/2007
WELSH OPEN
Le Roux Celebrates Maiden PSA Tour Title In Cardiff
Welsh Open Squash
Championship, St Mellons Country Club, Cardiff, Wales
Final:
[3] Shaun le Roux (ENG) bt
[2] Ben Ford (ENG) 11-10 (2-0), 10-11 (1-3), 11-4, 11-8
(53m)
Semi-finals:
[3] Shaun le Roux (ENG) bt
Peter Creed (WAL) 11-8, 11-3, 11-7 (25m)
[2] Ben Ford (ENG) bt [4]
Ricky Davies (WAL) 11-10 (2-0), 11-10 (2-0), 11-8 (58m)
Quarter-finals:
Peter Creed (WAL) bt Eddie
Charlton (ENG) 4-11, 5-11, 11-9, 11-3, 11-9 (65m)
[3] Shaun le Roux (ENG) bt
[8] Tom Pashley (ENG) 11-3, 11-7, 9-11, 11-2 (39m)
[4] Ricky Davies (WAL) bt
Jethro Binns (WAL) 11-10 (4-2), 11-7, 11-6 (41m)
[2] Ben Ford (ENG) bt [7]
Jaymie Haycocks (ENG) 10-11 (1-3), 10-11 (1-3), 11-6, 11-2, 11-7
(60m)
1st round:
Eddie Charlton (ENG) bt [1]
Rob Sutherland (WAL) 11-6, 11-9, 4-11, 11-8 (43m)
Peter Creed (WAL) bt [5] Jason
Barry (RSA) 11-9, 5-11, 11-7, 10-11 (0-2), 11-10 (2-0)
(77m)
[3] Shaun le Roux (ENG) bt [Q]
Lewis Walters (ENG) 11-3, 11-8, 11-9 (39m)
[8] Tom Pashley (ENG) bt [Q]
Shahid Khan (ENG) 10-11 (0-2), 11-8, 7-11, 11-4, 11-1 (45m)
Jethro Binns (WAL) bt [6]
Matias Tuomi (FIN) 11-6, 11-1, 8-11, 11-7 (38m)
[4] Ricky Davies (WAL) bt [Q]
Richard Birks (ENG) 11-8, 11-6, 11-3 (25m)
[7] Jaymie Haycocks (ENG) bt
[Q] Nic Birt (WAL) 10-11 (0-2), 11-4, 11-4, 11-3 (36m)
[2] Ben Ford (ENG) bt James
Snell (ENG) 4-11, 11-3, 11-6, 11-7 (40m)
Le Roux Celebrates Maiden
PSA Tour Title In Cardiff
England's Shaun le Roux
claimed his first PSA Tour when he beat fellow countryman Ben Ford
in the final of the Welsh Open Squash Championship at St Mellons
Country Club in Cardiff.
After powering past unseeded
Welshman Peter Creed in the semi-finals, the 20-year-old third seed
from Castleford in Yorkshire was taken to tie-breaks in the first two games
before upsetting second seed Ford 11-10 (2-0), 10-11 (1-3), 11-4, 11-8 in 53
minutes to clinch the title.
The climax marked
31-year-old Ford's second PSA Tour final appearance in two weeks after
winning his maiden Tour trophy at Le Sport Open in Wales last month.
Steady Eddie Ousts Welsh
Ace Sutherlan
Unseeded English teenager
Eddie Charlton pulled off a major upset in the first round of the Welsh
Open Squash Championship when he defeated top-seeded Welshman Rob
Sutherland on the opening day of action in the PSA Tour event at
St Mellons Country Club in Cardiff.
The 18-year-old from Mansfield
in Nottinghamshire beat favourite Sutherland 11-6, 11-9, 4-11, 11-8 in 43
minutes - and will now face another local player Peter Creed for a
place in the last four.
Unseeded Creed also claimed an
unexpected berth in the quarter-finals when he outlasted fifth-seeded South
African Jason Barry 11-9, 5-11, 11-7, 10-11 (0-2), 11-10 (2-0) in 77
minutes.
Jethro Binns
set up a surprise all-Welsh quarter-final when he upset Finland's sixth seed
Matias Tuomi 11-6, 11-1, 8-11, 11-7. The unseeded Abergavenny-born
22-year-old will take on fellow countryman Ricky Davies after the
fourth seed from Newport beat English qualifier Richard Birks 11-8,
11-6, 11-3.
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