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Pioneer Junior Open Squash Championships,
Cologne, Germany
Men's U-19 quarter-finals:
[1] Rudi Rohrmuller (GER) bt [9/16] Nicholas
Hopcroft (ENG) 11-7, 11-1, 11-3
[9/16] Declan James (ENG) bt Gary Power (IRL)
7-11, 11-8, 5-11, 11-2, 11-3
[6] Nathan Lake (ENG) bt [3] Karim Ali Fathi
(EGY) 11-6, 7-11, 11-3, 1-11, 11-6
[7] Rick Penders (NED) bt [2] Charles Sharpes
(ENG) 11-7, 4-11, 3-11, 11-8, 11-7
Semi-finals:
[1] Rudi Rohrmuller (GER) bt [9/16] Declan James
(ENG) 11-7, 4-11, 11-3, 11-2
[6] Nathan Lake (ENG) bt [7] Rick Penders (NED)
11-6, 11-7, 11-6
Final:
[1] Rudi Rohrmuller (GER) bt [6] Nathan Lake
(ENG) 13-11, 11-4, 11-3
Third place play-off:
[7] Rick Penders (NED) bt [9/16] Declan James
(ENG) 5-11, 11-7, 11-8, 9-11, 11-5
Women's U-19 quarter-finals:
[1] Catalina Pelaez (COL) bt Jennifer Pelletier
(CAN) 11-7, 11-2, 11-7
[9/16] Julia Lecoq (FRA) bt Alex Sawin (USA)
11-7, 4-11, 11-9, 6-11, 11-4
[3] Julianne Courtice (ENG) bt [6] Brogan Lane
(ENG) 11-5, 8-11, 11-5, 11-4
[2] Cyrielle Peltier (FRA) bt [9/16] Agapi
Kazamia (SUI) 11-4, 11-0, 11-9
Semi-finals:
[1] Catalina Pelaez (COL) bt [9/16] Julia Lecoq
(FRA) 11-5, 5-11, 14-12, 11-4
[3] Julianne Courtice (ENG) bt [2] Cyrielle
Peltier (FRA) 13-11, 8-11, 11-5, 6-11, 11-4
Final:
[1] Catalina Pelaez
(COL) bt [3] Julianne Courtice (ENG) 11-6, 11-6, 11-8
Third place play-off:
[2] Cyrielle Peltier (FRA) bt [9/16] Julia Lecoq
(FRA) 11-8, 11-5, 11-8
Favourites Rohrmuller & Pelaez Power To Pioneer Successes
Top seeds Rudi Rohrmuller and Catalina
Pelaez emerged triumphant in the U19 finals of the 2010 Pioneer Junior
Open Squash Championships, the long-established Super Series event on
the European Squash Federation Junior Circuit in Cologne, Germany.
It was after battling through seven rounds that
Rohrmuller became the first German for four years to win the men's title.
The 18-year-old from Rosenheim had to overcome
two surprise English opponents in the final two rounds - firstly 9/16 seed
Declan James in the semi-finals, then sixth seed Nathan Lake in the
final.
Lake, 18, from Gloucestershire, celebrated his
surprise first appearance in an ESF circuit final after ditching Dutchman
Rick Penders in the semi-finals.
But Rohrmuller was too strong for Lake in the
final, winning 13-11, 11-4, 11-3.
Catalina Pelaez became the first Colombian
winner of the women's title after beating England's Julianne Courtice in
the final. And again, Courtice brought surprise English interest into the final
after upsetting France's second seed Cyrielle Peltier in the semi-finals.
But the third seed from Gloucestershire was
unable to go all the way as Pelaez, 18, from Bogota, romped to an 11-6, 11-6,
11-8 victory to claim the first ESF Junior circuit title of her career.
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