06/07/2011
WISPA des PYRAMIDES
Serme Steals The Show On Home turf
WISPA
des Pyramides 2011
28 Jun - 03 Jul, Port Marly, France , $26k |
Round One
30 Jun |
Quarters
01 Jul |
Semis
02 Jul |
Final
03 Jul |
[1] Camille Serme (Fra)
11/8, 11/4, 11/3 (28m)
[Q] Stephanie Edmison (Can) |
Camille Serme
11/2, 11/2, 11/8 (27m)
Lucie Fialova |
Camille Serme
11/6, 11/4, 11/9 (42m)
Dipika Pallikal |
Camille Serme
11/4, 11/4, 6/11, 11/9 (60m)
Natalie Grinham |
[7] Lucie Fialova (Cze)
13/11, 2/11, 11/7, 11/6 (37m)
Sina Wall (Ger) |
[3] Dipika Pallikal (Ind)
11/2, 15/13, 11/2 (45m)
Dominique Lloyd-Walter (Eng) |
Dipika Pallikal
11/9, 11/3, 11/9 (18m)
Tenille Swartz |
[8] Tenille Swartz (Rsa)
11/3, 11/0, 11/2 (20m)
[Q] Lotte Eriksen (Nor) |
Emily Whitlock (Eng)
4/11, 11/4, 11/5, 11/8 (41m)
[6] Joshna Chinappa (Ind) |
Joshna Chinappa
11/9, 11/7, 9/11, 11/3 (47m)
Aisling Blake |
Joshna Chinappa
12/10, 11/4, 11/2 (29m)
Natalie Grinham |
[Q] Celia Allamargot (Fra)
11/9, 11/4, 11/8 (33m)
[4] Aisling Blake (Irl) |
[Q] Coline Aumard
11/9, 8/11, 11/13, 11/9, 11/5 (74m)
[5] Line Hansen (Den) |
Line Hansen
11/9, 11/7, 11/8 (30m)
Natalie Grinham |
Adel Weir-Nunan (Rsa)
11/6, 11/4, 11/3 (19m)
[2] Natalie Grinham (Ned) |
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Serme Steals The Show On Home turf
French star Camille Serme collected her sixth
WISPA title on home turf this week at the Silver 20 WISPA des Pyramides
tournament in Le Port Marly.
The popular stop on the tour, which is just
on the outskirts of Paris, saw some incredibly high level of squash all week
and the fans were treated to some great matches. The main draw featured
sixteen players from eleven different nations, a real international flavour
to the tournament.
Serme, 22, was making her return after being
a semi finalist back in 2009. She had the pressure of the home fans on her
but she started the tournament well, easing past Canadian qualifier
Stephanie Edmison. The rest of the top eight seeds all made it through to
the quarters without too many problems, although it took Line Hansen over
seventy minutes to see off local girl Coline Aumard, recovering from 2-1
down.
Onto the quarter finals and Serme continued
to delight the home fans by dispatching Lucie Fialova without any problems.
Former champion and number two seed Natalie Grinham ran past Hansen in
straight games and this was closely followed by Indian number one Dipika
Pallikal who dismantled Tenille Swartz. However, Aisling Blake couldn't
complete the semi final line for the top seeds as she was upset by Joshna
Chinappa in four closely fought games.
The semi finals showcased two matches with
contrasting styles in both. Serme and Grinham, with their athletic and solid
games up against Indian stars Pallikal and Chinappa, two of the best
attackers in the game. It was the consistency and retrieving of the top two
seeds that won out in both matches with Serme and Grinham both coming
through in straight games to set up a mouth watering final.
Grinham, the former world number two , was
making her 34th showing in a tour final and a second appearance
in a final in two weeks after losing out to Samantha Teran in Mexico last
week. Serme was featuring in her first final since losing out at home to
Nour El Tayeb in the Open International Feminin de Creteil in February 2010.
Their head to heads were tied at one each, although Serme's victory came as
the result of a walkover.
Serme started the final superbly controlling
the first two games. Grinham hit back to steal the third. The pressure was
on the home player now as the fourth game became very tight, in the end
though she held her nerve and closed the match out 11-9 in one hour of
gruelling squash. For Grinham it was a second final loss to the home
favourite in consecutive tournaments. For Serme it was sweet revenge as she
lost out in the semi final here two years ago to Grinham. It was also her
first title in over two years.
A wonderful tournament in it's fifth
addition. I am sure we will see it back next year, even bigger than before!
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