Frost
Denies Schoor In Tenerife
RESULTS: PSA Challenger 5 XIII Canary Islands Open, Santa Cruz,
Tenerife, Spain
Jens Schoor
suffered his first ever defeat in a PSA World Tour final when he
lost to Kristian Frost Olesen in the climax of the XIII Canary
Islands Open at Centro Insular de Squash de Tenerife in
Santa Cruz on the Spanish island of Tenerife.
The
final of the PSA Challenger 5 event was a clash between the
event's top two seeds. Olesen, the favourite from Denmark overcame
fourth-seeded German Raphael Kandra in straight games in the
semi-finals to reach his second Tour final of the year without dropping
a game.
Second
seed Schoor, the German number two, despatched England's No3 seed
Charles Sharpes 3/0 in the other semi to make it to his fifth Tour
final.
Since
August 2010, the 24-year-old from Koblenz has appeared in finals in
Australia, Greece, Spain and Ukraine - with 100% success in all four.
And
underdog Schoor survived the first game after a tie-break to open up an
early lead in the final.
But
Olesen, ranked six places higher, battled back to regain control before
finally closing out the match 11-13, 11-6, 11-7, 11-8.
"I am
very, very, very happy about my performance today," exclaimed the
exuberant Dane after winning the second Tour title of his career.
"I
managed to get through in the end. I lost the first game after being up
10-8. That was very disappointing, but I stepped up the court from that
point and gave it my best.
"It
was close all the way, but I just got a couple of points ahead toward
the end of the three last games," added the 22-year-old from Odense.
Schoor
is already planning revenge: "All credit to Kristian - he played really
well today. Congratulations for winning the tournament - but next time I
will try to beat him again.
"He
got pretty much all my attacking shots back and made it really hard for
me to get any points off him. The same happened in the third. We were
even to the end of the game and then Kristian pulled away a couple of
points and won the game from there.
"In
the fourth I got a little lead of two points in the beginning, but I
couldn't keep that lead to the end."
1st
round:
[1] Kristian Frost Olesen (DEN) bt [Q] Jamie Mathews (ENG)
11-8, 11-2, 11-9
Matias Tuomi (FIN) bt [Q] David Vidal (ESP) 11-9, 9-11,
11-6, 11-6
Ben Coleman (ENG) bt [Q] James Simpson (ENG) 11-6, 11-0,
11-6
[4] Raphael Kandra (GER) bt Leandro Romiglio Fernandez
(ESP) 12-14, 11-6, 11-4, 11-9
[3] Charles Sharpes (ENG) bt Martin Mosnik (SLO) 11-5,
11-8, 11-1
Alejandro Garbi Caro (ESP) bt Alex Ingham (ENG) 11-7,
11-7, 11-5
[Q] Andrew Birks (ENG) bt Rory Pennell (ENG) 11-5, 12-10,
4-11, 11-5
[2] Jens Schoor (GER) bt Jose Facchini (ITA) 11-8, 6-11,
11-2, 11-9
Quarter-finals:
[1] Kristian Frost Olesen (DEN) bt Matias Tuomi (FIN)
11-6, 11-7, 11-4
[4] Raphael Kandra (GER) bt Ben Coleman (ENG) 11-8, 11-5,
8-11, 11-8
[3] Charles Sharpes (ENG) bt Alejandro Garbi Caro (ESP)
14-12, 11-7, 8-11, 11-8
[2] Jens Schoor (GER) bt [Q] Andrew Birks (ENG) 11-3,
11-8, 11-6
Semi-finals:
[1] Kristian Frost Olesen (DEN) bt [4] Raphael Kandra
(GER) 11-8, 11-9, 11-5
[2] Jens Schoor (GER) bt [3] Charles Sharpes (ENG) 11-7,
11-6, 11-7
Final:
[1] Kristian Frost Olesen (DEN) bt [2] Jens Schoor (GER)
11-13, 11-6, 11-7, 11-8
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