30/10/2009
MADISON WORKSHOP
Samper Seizes Squash Design Tour Success in Madison
Madison
Open 2009
20-25 Oct, Madison, WI, Usa, $6k |
Round One
22 Oct |
Quarters
23 Oct |
Semis
24 Oct |
Final
25 Oct |
[1] Gilly Lane (Usa)
11-4, 11-3, 11-4 (20m)
Keith Pritchard (Can) |
Gilly Lane
11-6, 9-11, 11-13, 11-6, 11-8 (70m)
Peter Creed |
Gilly Lane
11-4, 11-8, 12-10 (40m)
Wade Johnstone |
Gilly Lane
11-7, 13-11, 11-3 (36m)
Bernardo Samper |
Peter Creed
(Wal)
11-4, 11-4, 11-5 (25m)
Luke Butterworth (Eng) |
[3] Wade Johnstone (Aus)
11-9, 11-8, 11-7 (45m)
[Q] Anthony Graham (Eng) |
Wade Johnstone
11-5, 11-7, 11-6 (36m)
Ben Coleman |
[8] Bart Ravelli (Ned)
12-10, 12-10, 5-11, 11-8 (73m)
[Q] Ben Coleman (Eng) |
Fernando Lopez (Mex)
2-11, 11-4, 11-5, 4-11, 11-6 (38m(
[6] Amr Mansi (Egy) |
Amr Mansi
11-9, 11-5, 7-11, 11-6 (58m)
Lekgotla Mosope |
Amr Mansi
11-9, 11-4, 11-3 (35m)
Bernardo Samper |
Lekgotla Mosope (Bot)
11-3, 11-9, 11-6 (25m)
[4] Mike Corren (Aus) |
[Q] Ehimen Joseph Ehalen (Ngr)
11-5, 11-6, 11-6 (25m)
[5] Bernardo Samper (Col) |
Bernardo Samper
11-5, 8-11, 11-8, 11-5 (35m)
Chris Gordon |
[Q] Mark Heather (Eng)
11-7, 11-4, 7-11, 11-8 (45m)
[2] Chris Gordon (Usa) |
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Samper Seizes Squash Design Tour Success
in Madison
Colombian Bernardo
Samper celebrated success in the first event of the Squash Design Tour
when he upset top-seeded American Gilly Lane in the final of the
Madison Open, a $6,625 PSA World Tour Super Satellite squash event at
Madison Squash Workshop in Madison, USA
The Madison Open was the
first stop on the Squash Design Tour, the recently-launched tour made up of PSA
sanctioned events across the USA which is designed to showcase the talent of
up-and-coming players in the fast-growing global game of Squash.
Samper, the fifth seed,
made his breakthrough in the quarter-finals when he upset second seed
Christopher Gordon, also from the USA, in four games.
The 27-year-old from Bogota
was in excellent form in the final. After losing the first game, local hero
Lane picked it up in the second to nearly level the match. At 10-8 and rolling,
the 24-year-old favourite from Philadelphia took his foot off and made two
unforced errors to force a tie break.
They evened at 11-all, but
Samper scampered back to finish the game 13-11. By then the US player's
confidence had gone and Samper claimed his 11-7, 13-11, 11-3 victory after 36
minutes.
The win gives the US-based
Colombian the second PSA Tour title of his career - and his second this month!
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