GoodLife Open,
Ottawa, Canada
1st round:
[1] Julian Illingworth (USA) bt Rasmus Nielsen (DEN) 11-8, 11-8,
11-1 (30m)
[8] Andrew McDougall (CAN) bt Maxym Leclair (CAN) 11-3, 11-2,
7-11, 11-5 (32m)
Peter Creed (WAL) bt [3] Laurence Delasaux (ENG) 11-4, 11-8, 5-2
ret. (14m)
[5] David Phillips (CAN) bt Adrian Dudzicki (CAN) 11-5, 11-4, 11-2
(18m)
[6] Robin Clarke (CAN) bt Tyler Hamilton (CAN) 9-11, 11-4, 7-11,
11-4, 11-6 (54m)
[4] Joe Lee (ENG) bt Matthew Serediak (CAN) 11-6, 11-4, 11-9
[7] Shawn Delierre (CAN) bt Tom Pashley (ENG) 11-5, 11-4, 10-12,
11-8 (55m)
[2] Gilly Lane (USA) bt Nathan Stevenson (AUS) 11-8, 9-11, 11-8,
11-0 (42m)
Quarter-finals:
[1] Julian Illingworth (USA) bt [8] Andrew McDougall (CAN) 11-9,
11-6, 12-10 (45m)
[5] David Phillips (CAN) bt Peter Creed (WAL) 11-4, 11-3, 11-5
(31m)
[4] Joe Lee (ENG) bt [6] Robin Clarke (CAN) 10-12, 12-10, 11-8,
9-11, 11-0 (72m)
[7] Shawn Delierre (CAN) bt [2] Gilly Lane (USA) 10-12, 12-10,
11-5, 11-4 (63m)
Semi-finals:
[1] Julian Illingworth (USA) bt [5] David Phillips (CAN) 11-7,
11-8, 11-5 (35m)
[4] Joe Lee (ENG) bt [7] Shawn Delierre (CAN) 11-6, 9-11, 11-6,
11-7 (66m)
Final:
[1] Julian Illingworth (USA) bt [4] Joe Lee (ENG) 11-6, 11-7, 11-6
(54m)
Illingworth
Celebrates The GoodLife In Ottawa
US number one
Julian Illingworth celebrated his first PSA World Tour title
success on foreign soil when he won the GoodLife Open in Ottawa,
Canada.
Top-seeded in
the $10,000 Tour event in its sixth year at the city's Goodlife Fitness Club,
Illingworth reached the final without dropping a game - despatching Canadians in
the penultimate two rounds.
But awaiting
the 26-year-old record six-time national champion in the final was fourth seed
Joe Lee. The 21-year-old Englishman had claimed his unexpected place in
the climax after overcoming twice former champion Shawn Delierre, the No7
seed from Canada who had ousted second seed Gilly Lane, from the USA, in
the earlier round.
Lee fully
tested the American, ranked more than 40 places higher, for almost an hour - but
Illingworth stuck to his task and eventually closed out the match 11-6, 11-7,
11-6 after 54 minutes to become the first US winner of the Canadian title.
The triumph
takes New York-based Illingworth's career tally to four titles, following
previous Tour successes in Rhode Island, Baltimore and California.
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