10/05/2009
TOP END OPEN
Lee & Urquhart Triumph In Top End Open
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End Open 2009
Men's Draw
07-10 May, Darwin, $7k |
Round One
08 May |
Quarters
08 May |
Semis
09 May |
Final
10 May |
[1] Scott Arnold
(Aus)
11/7, 11/5, 11/4
[Q] Rex Kendrick (Aus) |
Scott Arnold
11/7, 11/4, 5/11, 11/8
Mike Corren |
Mike Corren
7/11, 11/9, 11/7, 11/8
Matthew Karwalski |
Mike Corren
8/11, 11/9, 11/6, 11/8
Max Lee |
[7] Mike Corren (Aus)
11/5, 11/5, 11/8
[Q] Peter Taylor (Aus) |
[3] Matthew Karwalski (Aus)
8/11, 11/4, 10/12, 11/3, 11/6
Steven Robinson (Aus) |
Matthew Karwalski
11/13, 11/9, 11/7, 11/8
Steve Finitsis |
[5] Steve Finitsis
(Aus)
12/10, 11/6, 11/9
Jacob Alexander (Aus) |
Nathan Stevenson
(Aus)
11/5, 11/4, 11/3
[8] Justin Beard (Aus) |
Nathan Stevenson
11/1, 11/9, 11/1
Zac Alexander |
Zac Alexander
7/11, 11/8, 14/16, 11/5, 11/4
Max Lee |
Nathan Turnbull (Aus)
11/4, 16/14, 11/5
[4] Zac Alexander (Aus) |
[Q] Luke Forster (Aus)
12/14, 11/6, 11/3, 11/7
[6] Max Lee (Hkg) |
Max Lee
10/12, 11/6, 9/11, 11/3, 11/8
Dick Lau |
[Q] Sam Miller (Eng)
11/9, 11/3, 2/11, 11/4
[2] Dick Lau (Hkg) |
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End Open 2009
Women's Draw
07-10 May, Darwin $6k |
Round One
08 May |
Quarters
08 May |
Semis
09 May |
Final
10 May |
[1] Donna Urquhart
(Aus)
Bye |
Donna Urquhart
11/7, 10/12, 11/4, 11/2
Amanda Cranston |
Donna Urquhart
11/5, 10/12, 11/1, 11/8
Melody Francis |
Donna Urquhart
9/11, 11/8, 8/11, 11/4, 13/11
Amelia Pittock |
[5] Amanda Cranston (Nzl)
11/2, 11/1, 11/2
Selena Shaikh (Aus) |
[3] Melody Francis
(Aus)
11/3, 11/6, 11/5
Josefa Bertilsson (Swe) |
Melody Francis
11/4, 11/4, 10/12, 13/11
Maggy Marshall |
[8] Maggy Marshall (Aus)
7/11, 14/2, 11/8, 11/6
Tamika Saxby (Aus) |
Alma Kushartanti (Aus)
11/5, 11/2, 11/3
[8] Misaki Kobayashi (Jpn) |
Misaki Kobayashi
11/9, 11/7, 11/2
Zoe Petranovsky |
Misaki Kobayashi
11/2, 6/11, 13/11, 11/9
Amelia Pittock
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Christine Nunn (Aus)
11/7, 15/13, 6/11, 11/1
[4] Zoe Petranovsky (Aus) |
Samantha Davies
(Aus)
11/6, 11/9, 13/11
[7] Sarah Cardwell (Aus) |
Samantha Davies
11/9, 14/12, 11/5
Amelia Pittock |
Bye
[2] Amelia Pittock (Aus) |
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Lee & Urquhart
Triumph In Top End Open
Hong Kong’s Max
Lee and Australian Donna Urquhart took the honours at the Top End
Open squash tournament at the Darwin Squash Centre in Darwin,
the first event on the 2009 Australian professional tour.
Urquhart claimed
the fourth title of her career when she downed fellow countrywoman Amelia
Pittock in the final of the $6,000 WISPA World Tour event 9-11, 11-8,
8-11 11-4, 13-11.
The 22-year-old
from Yamba in New South Wales had been suffering from the flu all week and was
still not feeling 100 per cent heading into the final.
But the left-hander
recovered enough to withstand everything Pittock threw at her, clinching a hard
fought match to claim her second title of the year following her success in the
Australia Day Challenge in Brisbane in January.
Urquhart looked
down and out when she faced two match balls in the fifth game, but she hung in
and saved both before claiming the narrowest of victories.
"I don’t know how I
won that," she said later. "There was one match ball when I just threw my
racket out and closed my eyes and I thought I was gone. I couldn’t believe it
when I saw the ball coming back and the rally was still going."
In the final of the
men's $7,000 PSA World Tour championship, 21-year-old Max Lee ended the
run of New Zealand-based Australian Mike Corren with a four-game victory.
Sixth seed Lee
recovered from losing the first game to a player 14 years his senior to win the
biggest title of his career, taking the match 8-11, 11-9, 11-6, 11-8.
The win - the
second Tour title of Lee's career, but his first on foreign soil - was the
culmination of a highly successful week for the Hong Kong underdog who beat
second-seeded compatriot Dick Lau in the quarter-finals then downed
fourth seed Zac Alexander in the semis.
"After I played
Dick I was very, very tired, and it was the same after I played Zac," Lee said.
"Today I tried to slow the game down, but I was still very tired. I think the
hot conditions suited me – the ball was very bouncy in the back court and I
could keep the points going."
Corren, the No7
seed, said he had peaked in his quarter-final win over top seed Scott Arnold
and had slipped in the semi-finals and the final.
“I think with all
the training behind me I should have risen to the challenge,” said the
35-year-old, celebrating his 30th Tour final. "It’s really a matter of keeping
the form going for the whole tournament -- you’ve got to be able to play four
good matches in a row."
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