1st round:
[1] Rex Hedrick (AUS) bt Joshua Stack-Masula (AUS) 11-6, 11-3,
11-1 Yuta Fukui (JPN) bt Will John (WAL) 11-5, 11-4, 11-4 Lance James Beddoes (NZL) bt [Q] Andrew Pringle (AUS) 11-8, 11-6,
9-11, 11-7 Cameron Stafford (CAY) bt [8] Chris Lloyd (NZL) 12-10, 11-5, 15-13
[7] Nathan Stevenson (AUS) bt [Q] Bradley Freeme (AUS) 6-11,
13-11, 11-4, 7-11, 12-10 Sunil Seth (AUS) bt [Q] Dominic Mobbs (AUS) 13-11, 11-2, 11-8 Joshua Larkin (AUS) bt [Q] Andrew Fraser (AUS) 6-11, 5-11, 11-4,
11-9, 13-11
[4] Lewis Walters (ENG) bt Sehyun Lee (KOR) 11-6, 8-11, 11-9, 11-8
[3] Eddie Charlton (ENG) bt [Q] Sheng Kai Chen (TPE) 11-1, 11-0,
11-5
[Q] JaeJin Yoo (KOR) bt T J Rarere (AUS) 11-8, 11-8, 11-5 Joshua Southwell-Nobbs (AUS) bt Thomas Calvert (AUS) 11-7, 10-12,
8-11, 12-10, 11-5
[5] Paul Coll (NZL) bt James Skiffington (NZL) 11-3, 11-6, 11-7
[6] Jamie McErvale (AUS) bt Tim Cowell (AUS) 11-9, 11-5, 11-9 Courtney West (AUS) bt Corey Sergeant (AUS) 11-7, 11-8, 11-1 Rory Pennell (ENG) bt Joseph Watts (NZL) 11-6, 15-13, 10-12, 11-5
[2] Mike Corren (AUS) bt [Q] SungYoung Kim (KOR) 11-6, 12-10,
12-10
Fifth For Hedrick In Queensland
Australian Rex
Hedrick claimed his fifth PSA World Tour squash title of the year
when he wore down third-seeded Englishman Eddie Charlton to win the
Hitachi Queensland Open in straight games at the Sandgate Squash Centre
in Brisbane, Australia.
The top seed from
Melbourne was able to absorb everything Charlton tried in the climax of the
PSA Challenger 5 event - then turned the screws in the third game to win the
final 11-7, 11-6, 11-5 in a match that lasted just over an hour.
Charlton had reached
the final - the ninth of his career - after a five-game upset over Mike
Corren, the second-seeded Australian who was bidding the win the 44th Tour
title of his career.
Hedrick now heads to
Canada for two tournaments before he attempts to qualify for the PSA World
Championship in Qatar in December.
He leaves Australia in
a rich vein of form, having won the ACT, NSW and South Australian Opens this
year as well as the Australia Day Challenge in January.
"I started the year
with the plan to win some tournaments, because I was runner-up for quite a few
before I finally broke through, and now they're coming a bit more often," said
the world No70. "It's probably time now to start going for some bigger events
and trying to break in a bit further by playing the higher-ranked boys."
Hedrick has always been
known for his pace and conditioning and he used both to full effect against
Charlton.
"I've been working a
lot on my speed and fitness and in such hot conditions you kind of just have to
rally up and down the wall a little bit," he said.
"He played the type of
game I expected, although I thought he would try and take me in short a little
bit more than he did because he's got nice racket skills.
"But again because the
ball was so hot it was hard to do that because I could counter him quite
quickly."
Queensland
Open 2012
Women's Draw 25-28 Oct, Deagon, Australia, $5k