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05/07/2010
WISPA PYRAMIDES
Annie Au Wins Port Marly Prize
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WISPA
Pyramides 2010
29 Jun - 04 Jun, Port Marly, France, $17k |
Round One
01 Jul |
Quarters
02 Jul |
Semis
03 Jul |
Final
04 Jul |
[1] Annie Au (Hkg)
11/8, 11/3, 11/4 (27m)
[Q] Lotte Eriksen (Fin) |
Annie Au
11/4, 11/4, 11/3 (24m)
Sina Wall |
Annie Au
11-7, 11-9, 13-11
(51m)
Emma Beddoes |
Annie Au
11-6, 10-12,
11-7, 11-2 (52m)
Dominique
Lloyd-Walter |
[6] Nour El Tayeb (Egy)
13/11, 3/2 rtd
[Q] Sina Wall (Ger) |
[4] Emma Beddoes (Eng)
11/4, 11/7, 9/11, 7/11, 11/3 (71m)
Heba El Torky (Egy) |
Emma Beddoes
11/7, 11/7, 11/7 (29m)
Amanda Sobhy |
[5] Amanda Sobhy (Usa)
11/7, 11/6, 11/2 (26m)
Lucie Fialova (Cze) |
Olivia Blatchford (Usa)
11/9, 10/12, 11/6, 11/3 (45m)
[7] Nour El Sherbini (Egy) |
Nour El Sherbini
w/o
Tenille Swartz |
Tenille Swartz
11-7, 11-7, 11-8
(43m)
Dominique
Lloyd-Walter |
[Q] Tenille Swartz (Rsa)
8/11, 11/8, 11/8, 11/6 (37m)
[3] Joshna Chinappa (Ind) |
Maud Duplomb (Fra)
11/5, 11/5, 11/5 (30m)
[8] Kanzy El Dafrawy (Egy) |
Kanzy El Dafrawy
11/3, 12/10, 11/8 (50m)
Dominique
Lloyd-Walter |
[Q] Laura Hill (Eng)
11/7, 11/2, 11/3 (35m)
[2] Dominique Lloyd-Walter |
Annie Au Wins
Port Marly Prize
The top two
seeds battled for almost an hour in the final of the Des Pyramides Open
in France before favourite Annie Au emerged triumphant in the $17,250
WISPA World Tour squash event at Squash Pyramides in Le Port Marly,
near Paris.
Au, the world
No16 from Hong Kong, reached the tenth Tour final of her career after beating
England's fourth seed Emma Beddoes - while Dominique Lloyd-Walter,
the second seed from England, ended the courageous run of South African
qualifier Tenille Swartz in the other semi.
Left-hander Au
was calm throughout the final - her fast and attacking game ultimately proving
decisive against her more experienced 29-year-old English opponent.
Lloyd-Walter
drew level after losing the first game, but 21-year-old Au struck back to win
the next two to record her title-winning 11-6, 10-12, 11-7, 11-2 triumph.
The win sees
Au increase her career WISPA Tour title tally to seven - but it also marked
Lloyd-Walter's first ever defeat in a Tour final since reaching her first in May
2004.
Juniors Reach
End Of The Road In Port Marly
Just days
after winning the Women's World Junior Squash Championship title in
Germany, Amanda Sobhy bowed out of the Des Pyramides Open in
France after losing to fourth seed Emma Beddoes in the quarter-finals of
the $17,250 WISPA World Tour event at Squash Pyramides in Le
Port Marly, near Paris.
Sobhy, the
17-year-old fifth seed from the USA, began her maiden senior campaign as world
junior champion in convincing style, seeing off Czech number one Lucie
Fialova in straight games.
But
experienced Beddoes, the world 24-year-old world No33 from England, proved too
strong for the New York teenager, winning 11-7, 11-7, 11-7 in 29 minutes.
It was the end
of the road too for former world junior champion Nour El Sherbini, whom
Sobhy beat in the Cologne semi-finals.
The
14-year-old Egyptian also survived the first round in Port Marly, but was forced
to concede her quarter-final against Tenille Swartz - giving the South
African qualifier a trouble-free passage through to the last four.
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