Fluidline Golden Squash Open,
YMCA Courts,
Kalgoorlie,
WA, Australia
1st round:
[1] Steve
Finitsis (AUS) bt [Q] Rex Hedrick (AUS) 11-8, 11-6, 11-10
(4-2)
[6] Jacob
Lohrisch (AUS) bt Paul Ratcliff (AUS) 5-11, 11-5, 5-11,
11-6, 11-2
[4] Nathan
Turnbull (AUS) bt Nathan Stevenson (AUS) 10-11 (0-2), 11-10 (2-0),
11-3, 11-10 (2-0)
[Q] Carl
Hampson (RSA) bt [5] Joseph Desira (AUS) 10-11 (0-2), 11-4, 11-1,
11-6
[8] Justin
Beard (AUS) bt [Q] Tim Cowell (AUS) 5-11, 11-6, 11-5, 11-10
(2-0)
[3] Steven
Robinson (AUS) bt [Q] Cheng Yao Huang (TPE) 11-9, 11-9, 6-11, 11-7
[7] Seyed
Mohammad Hossein Sanaee (IRI) bt Josh Cardwell (AUS) 7-11, 11-6, 11-10 (2-0),
2-11, 11-9
[2] Zac
Alexander (AUS) bt Neeraj Aggarwal (AUS) 11-2, 11-3, 11-3
Quarter-finals:
[1] Steve
Finitsis (AUS) bt [6] Jacob Lohrisch (AUS) 11-5, 11-7, 11-8
[Q] Carl
Hampson (RSA) bt [4] Nathan Turnbull (AUS) 11-5, 11-5, 11-10 (5-3)
[3] Steven
Robinson (AUS) bt [8] Justin Beard (AUS) 11-7, 11-6, 11-9
[2] Zac
Alexander (AUS) bt [7] Seyed Mohammad Hossein Sanaee (IRI) 11-9, 11-2,
11-3
Semi-finals:
[1] Steve
Finitsis (AUS) bt [Q] Carl Hampson (RSA) 11-9, 11-4, 11-10 (2-0)
(40m)
[2] Zac
Alexander (AUS) bt [3] Steven Robinson (AUS) 11-9, 5-11, 11-6, 11-4
(43m)
Final:
[1] Steve
Finitsis (AUS) bt [2] Zac Alexander (AUS) 6-11, 11-5, 11-7, 11-4
(40m)
Four In A
Row For Finitsis
Australia’s Steve Finitsis became the first
player since compatriot Stewart Boswell to win four successive PSA
Tour squash events when he beat compatriot Zac Alexander in today's
(Monday) final of the Fluidline Golden Open in
Kalgoorlie,
Western Australia.
The
25-year-old Queenslander beat 19-year-old Alexander 6-11, 11-5, 11-7, 11-4 in 40
minutes to add the Golden Open to titles he won in Darwin, Merredin (WA) and
Perth over the last month.
Despite
losing the first game to his younger opponent, Finitsis said he hadn’t
panicked: "He started well, but I knew it would be hard for him to keep the
pace up, and when he slowed down after the first game I was able to go on and
win comfortably.
"But he’ll
be a good player when he is able to keep that pace going for longer," added
Finitsis, unbeaten this year.
Originally
from Innisfail but now based in Brisbane, Finitsis said he had begun the
Australian tour “quietly confident” of doing well, so winning four tournaments
in a row had not been a complete surprise. “It’s definitely a result of all the
training I’ve been doing, both mentally and physically,” he said.
Boswell
went on to win seven in a row in 2005 and Finitsis said there’s no reason why he
can’t add to his own record this year.