26/04/2008
BAROSSA VALLEY OPEN
Knight Wins Maiden Tour Title At Barossa Valley
Barossa
Valley
Open 2008
Tanunda, South Australia, 23-26 Apr, $4k |
Round One
24-Apr |
Quarters
25-Apr |
Semis
25-Apr |
Final
26-Apr |
[1] Martin Knight
(Nzl)
bye |
Martin Knight
11-7, 11-8, 11-9
Natham Kam |
Martin Knight
11-3, 11-3, 11-5
Justin Beard |
Martin Knight
11/9, 11/2, 10/12, 7/11, 11/8 (79m)
Zac Alexander |
[5] Neeraj Aggarwal
(Aus)
11-8, 11-6, 11-5
Natham Kam (Aus) |
[3] Nathan Turnbull
(Aus)
11-6, 11-8, 11-6
Tim Cowell (Aus) |
Nathan Turnbull
11-8, 11-8, 6-11, 12-10
Justin Beard |
[7] Justin Beard
(Aus)
11-3, 11-5, 11-1
Ben Werchon (Aus) |
Brent Dunkley (Aus)
10/12, 11/6 rtd
[6] Josh Cardwell (Aus) |
Josh Cardwell
11-7, 11-5, 11-8
Peter Taylor |
Peter Taylor
11-6, 11-6, 11-3
Zac Alexander |
Peter Taylor
(Aus)
9-11, 11-5, 11-9, 11-6
[4] Jacob Lohrisch (Aus) |
Aaron Fyffe (Aus)
11-4, 13-11, 14-12
[8] Nathan Stevenson (Aus) |
Nathan Stevenson
11-8, 11-5, 11-6
Zac Alexander |
bye
[2] Zac Alexander (Aus) |
Knight Wins Maiden Tour Title At
Barossa
Valley
New Zealand’s Martin Knight justified
his top seeding when he beat 19-year-old Australian Zac Alexander
in the final of the Barossa Valley Open squash tournament in the
South Australian town of Tanunda.
The
Kiwi took the first two games and appeared to be heading for an easy
victory before Queenslander Alexander, a scholarship holder with the
Australian Institute of Sport, stormed back to take the next two and send
the match into a decider.
But the 24-year-old from
Wellington steadied and took the fifth to clinch his maiden PSA Tour
title 11-9, 11-2, 10-11 (0-2), 7-11, 11-8 in 79 minutes.
“I
was travelling well when I won the first two games but he changed his
tactics, straightened the play up and came back well,” Knight said. “Plus
I made some mistakes in the third which let him back into it.”
Knight was 4-5 down in the decider before rallying to get to 10-5. He hit
his first match ball into the tin and on the next point his racket broke
in two places as he played a shot, with the momentum swinging back to
Alexander.
“Things changed and Zac came right back into it,” Knight said. “Then at
10-8 I was fortunate to be awarded a stroke to win the match, because I
didn’t know where my next point was coming from. It was a definite stroke
and I felt a bit guilty about it … but not guilty enough not to take it.”
Alexander, who won his first PSA tournament in
Malaysia last month, had no complaints about the result. “I’m really
happy with the way I went here,” he said. “If anything I played better
here than I did in Malaysia. I only warmed up after the first two games
but then I got into my rhythm and played really well."
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