Home Advantage Lifts El Tayeb
To Third Title
Nour El Tayeb defeated top
seed Joey Chan in straight games to claim her third career title in the
WSA Silver Atlantis Open 2012.
The second seeded Egyptian made
short work of Czech Lucie Fialova in round one, before beating compatriot
Heba El Torky in four games to book her semi-final place. There she
faced fourteen-year-old local qualifier Nouran Ahmed Gohar, who
demonstrated remarkable resilience for her age in defeating Emily Whitlock
and Aisling Blake, before taking a game but understandably falling short
of the world No.21’s standard.
At the top end of the draw, Hong
Kong’s Joey Chan beat Nouran El Torky in round one, before dismissing the
English contingent of Sarah Kippax followed by Lauren Briggs, each
in four games.
El Tayeb started the quicker of
the pair in the final, running out a comfortable 11-6 first game before Chan was
able to form any semblance of threat. The second game was a closer contest with
both players hitting full stride, a tiebreak was forced but the Egyptian still
held the upper hand to extend her lead to two games. At this stage, El Tayeb
was well into her stride and finished off the contest in straight games to win
her first title of 2012 and third of her career.
Final:
[2] Nour El Tayeb bt [1] Joey Chan
(HKG) 11-6, 12-10, 11-3
Semi-finals:
[1] Joey Chan (HKG) bt [8] Lauren
Briggs (ENG) 11-3, 6-11, 16-14, 11-3
[2] Nour El Tayeb (EGY) bt [Q]
Nouran Ahmed Gohar (EGY) 11-2, 11-9, 9-11, 12-10
Quarter finals:
[1] Joey Chan (HKG) bt [5] Sarah
Kippax (ENG) 11-8, 6-11, 11-5, 11-9
[8] Lauren Briggs (ENG) bt [Q]
Habiba Mohamed Ahmed Alymohmed (EGY) 13-11, 11-8, 11-9
[Q] Nouran Ahmed Gohar (EGY) bt
[4] Aisling Blake (IRL) 11-8, 11-8, 11-8
[2] Nour El Tayeb (EGY) bt [7]
Heba El Torky (EGY) 11-8, 5-11, 11-9, 11-9
1st round:
[1] Joey Chan (HKG) bt Nouran El
Torky (EGY) 11-6, 12-10, 11-6
[5] Sarah Kippax (ENG) bt [Q]
Mariam Ibrahim Metwally (EGY) 8-11, 6-11, 11-4, 11-6, 11-6
[Q] Habiba Mohamed Ahmed Alymohmed
(EGY) bt [3] Emma Beddoes (ENG) 11-4, 9-11, RTD
[8] Lauren Briggs (ENG) bt Siti
Munirah Jusoh (MAS) 11-4, 5-11, 11-7, 11-4
[Q] Nouran Ahmed Gohar (EGY) bt
[6] Emily Whitlock (ENG) 11-2, 13-11, 7-11, 11-4
[4] Aisling Blake (IRL) v [Q]
Salma Hany (EGY) 11-4, 11-9, 11-4
[7] Heba El Torky (EGY) v Milou
van der Heijden (NED) 11-4, 6-11, 11-3, 11-7
[2] Nour El Tayeb (EGY) v Lucie
Fialova (CZE) 11-7, 11-7, 11-7
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