Sebastiaan Weenink (Ned)
11/3, 11/8, 11/8
[Q] Ollie Holland (Eng)
Sebastiaan Weenink
11/9, 11/3, 11/7
Evan Williams
Nathan Stevenson (Aus)
11./9, 11/3, 12/14 [2] Evan Williams (Nzl)
RESULTS: PSA Challenger 5 Queensland Open, Brisbane,
Australia
Koukal Cooks Up 25th Crown In Queensland
Czech squash star Jan Koukal notched up his 25th title on the
PSA World Tour when he beat Dutchman Sebastiaan Weenink
in today's final of the Queensland Open, the PSA
Challenger 5 squash event at Northern Suburbs Squash Center
in Brisbane, Australia.
Top seed Koukal dropped just one game en-route to his seventh PSA
Tour final appearance of the year - in a
sixth different country!
But whilst the world No80 from Prague was marking the 45th Tour
final of his career, his unseeded opponent Weenink was celebrating
his maiden appearance.
The 27-year-old from The Hague, ranked 174 in the world, made his
breakthrough in the quarter-finals where he ousted second-seeded New
Zealander Evan Williams in straight games.
Weenink tested the Czech number one in the final for more than an
hour - but Koukal ultimately emerged triumphant 14-12, 8-11, 11-5,
11-7 to become the first non-Australian to win the Queensland Open
crown this millennium.
Koukal's 25th Tour title takes him to equal sixth place in the list
of current Tour title winners - sharing the position with France's
world No2 Gregory Gaultier.