Mahesh Mangaonkar (Ind)
10/12, 11/7, 11/6, 11/7 (54m) [2] Olli Tuominen (Fin)
RESULTS:
Savcor
Finnish Open,
Mikkeli, Finland
Nicolas
Nicks Olli's Finnish Open Crown
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Home hero
Olli
Tuominen
was denied a sixth Savcor
Finnish Open
title when he lost out to event favourite
Nicolas Mueller
in a hard-fought final of the PSA
World Tour Challenger 15
squash event at
Shopping Center Stella
in
Mikkeli,
Finland.
Second seed Tuominen, the World No.24 from Helsinki who won a record
15th successive Finnish National title earlier this month, earned his
sixth appearance in the Finnish Open final since 2008 after beating
Egypt's third seed Omar
Abdel Aziz
in the semi-finals.
The straight games win notched up the 34-year-old's 20th appearance in a
Tour final.
Mueller, the World No.28 from Switzerland and also his country's
national champion for the previous seven years, had a tougher assignment
in the other semi – needing four games to see off fifth seed
Fares Mohamed Dessouki,
also from Egypt.
"Tuominen started in a promising way and took a 5-3 lead - but Mueller
came back with five consecutive points to turn the score to 8-5,"
reported event spokesman Poku
Salo.
"Then Tuominen took three points and equalled the score at eight-all.
At 10-9 Tuominen saved one game ball but Mueller took the game 12-10,
in 18 minutes.
"The second game was all about Mueller, who went from 8-2 to take the
game 11-5. In the third game Tuominen got a slight control and came
through 11-9 and was back in the match.
"The fourth game started with Mueller taking an early lead but Tuominen
came back to equal the score at seven-all and continued to two game
balls at 10-8. After a few let-balls, Mueller got match ball at 11-10
and took the match and the Finnish Open title with a stroke in his first
match ball."
The 12-10, 11-5, 9-11, 12-10 success in his 10th final marks the eighth
PSA Tour title of Mueller's career – but his first for four years.
