RESULTS:
PSA Challenger 5 Club Esportiu XV Internacional d'squash Rocafort Open,
Barcelona, Spain
In an historic
first ever all-German PSA World Tour final, Jens Schoor upset
second seed Raphael Kandra to win the Club Esportiu Rocafort XV Open
Internacional d'squash Esportiu Rocafort in Barcelona, Spain.
Schoor, the
third seed from Koblenz, made his breakthrough in the semi-finals of the PSA
Challenger 5 event when he beat Muhammad Saqib Yousaf, the Pakistan
qualifier who ousted top-seeded Englishman Olivier Pett in the previous
round.
The unexpected
Barcelona final saw the fifth Tour meeting between the German pair.
Higher-ranked Kandra, the 22-year-old world No83 from Essen, built up a 2/1
lead.
But, in
fittingly the longest match of the event, 25-year-old Schoor fought back to
claim his 11-5, 7-11, 5-11, 11-6, 12-10 victory after 91 minutes - and pick up
the fifth Tour title of his career