Frenchman Lucas Serme survived the longest match of his
professional career when he beat Mexico's Eric Galvez in the
final of the Layer 3 Technologies & Hazlow Electronics Rochester
Pro-Am to win the PSA World Tour Challenger 5 squash event
celebrating its ninth successive year at the University of Rochester
in Rochester, NY, USA.
Third
seed Serme, a 21-year-old student at the University of the West of
England in the UK, reached the final after ending the impressive run of
Peruvian wildcard Andres Duany, a student at Rochester
University.
But
No4 seed Galvez, the 29-year-old former Mexican number one, rolled back
the years in the other semi by upsetting higher-ranked 21-year-old
compatriot Alfredo Avila, the top seed and the 2011 champion, in
straight games.
And
Galvez twice led in the final before Serme ultimately took control of
the match to win 10-12, 11-2, 8-11, 11-8, 11-6 after 102 minutes.
The
victory makes Serme the first French winner of the Rochester title - and
marks the Creteil-born world No87's third PSA World Tour title of the
year.
