Day two, Fri 21st Feb

Willstrop leads British charge
into Tournament of Champions
James Willstrop, the 19-year-old World Junior Champion from Yorkshire, led a group of three Englishman who survived the qualifying finals  to join eleven further Britons in the first round of the first PSA Super Series event of the year in New York.

The teenager, who reached last week's British Nationals semi-finals against the odds, beat Canada's Shahier Razik 15-8 13-15 15-8 13-15 15-9 - and now meets Egypt's former world junior champion Karim Darwish in the first round.

Compatriot Adrian Grant, also based in Yorkshire, overcame fellow English player Peter Genever 17-16 15-13 2-15 15-12 to earn a first round clash with seventh-seeded Australian Anthony Ricketts. The third Englishman through was Essex's Del Harris, whose reward for a 15-7 15-9 15-8 victory over Irishman Liam Kenny is an opening round encounter with his Edgbaston Priory English National League club team-mate Stewart Boswell, the fifth seed from Australia.

Men's Qualifying finals (New York Athletic Club):
Olli Tuominen (Fin) bt Davide Bianchetti (Ita) 15/7, 7/15, 15/1, 15/10
Wael El Hindi (Egy) bt Viktor Berg (Can)  15/9, 15/13, 15/10
Del Harris (Eng) bt Liam Kenny (Irl)  15/7, 15/9, 15/8
Rodney Durbach (Rsa) bt Jonathan Kemp (Eng)  15/11, 15/9, 15/8
Mohammad Abbas (Egy) bt Jean-Michel Arcucci (Fra) 15/9, 15/8, 15/13
Adrian Grant (Eng) bt Peter Genever (Eng) 17/16, 15/13, 2/15, 15/12
James Willstrop (Eng) bt Shahier Razik (Can) 15/8, 13/15, 15/8, 13/15, 15/9
Gregory Gaultier (Fra) bt Dan Jenson (Aus) 16/17, 15/2, 15/5, 15/13

updated men's draw

Women's qualifying Finals(Yale Club):
Omneya Abdel Kawy (Egy) bt Ellen Petersen (Den) 9/1, 1/9, 9/5, 9/4
Vicky Botwright  (Eng) v Madeline Perry (Irl)  9/3, 9/6, 9/3
Jenny Duncalf (Eng) bt Shelley Kitchen (Nzl)  10/8, 9/5, 9/6
Isabelle Stoehr (Fra) bt Pamela Nimmo  (Sco) 9/3, 9/4, 3/9, 9/7

updated women's draw

Women's qualifying round one (Yale Club):
[1] Omneya Abdel Kawy (Egy) bt Meredith Quick (Usa) 9/6, 9/4, 9/1
[5] Ellen Petersen (Den) bt Vicky Lankester (Eng)  9/0, 9/7, 9/1
[3] Vicky Botwright (Eng) bt Eman El Amir (Egy)  10/8, 9/2, 9/1
[7] Madeline Perry (Irl) bt Lilly Lorentzen (Usa)  w/o
Jenny Duncalf (Eng) bt [6] Annelize Naude (Ned)  4/9, 9/2, 9/4, 9/3
[4] Shelley Kitchen (Nzl) bt Salma Shabana (Egy)  10/9, 9/7, 9/1
[8] Isabelle Stoehr (Fra) bt Julia Beaver (Usa)  9/1, 9/4, 9/4
[2] Pamela Nimmo (Sco) bt Heidi Mather (Aus)  9/3, 9/1, 9/6

Day one, Thu 20th Feb

Men's Qualifying round one:
Olli Tuominen (Fin) bt Chris Gordon (Usa) 15/5, 15/4, 15/1
Davide Bianchetti (Ita) bt Matthew Guiffre (Can) 15/12, 15/11, 15/4
Viktor Berg (Can) bt James Rogers (Aus) 15/12, 15/12, 15/12
Wael El Hindi (Egy) bt Karim Yehia (Egy) 15/5, 15/9, 15/12
Del Harris (Eng) bt Erik Galvez (Mex) 17/15, 15/11, 9/15, 12/15, 15/4
Liam Kenny (Irl) bt Patrick Chifunda (Zam) 15/8, 15/7, 15/8
Rodney Durbach (Rsa) bt Julian Wellings (Eng) 15/10, 11/15, 15/5, 13/15, 15/7
Jonathan Kemp (Eng) bt Stefan Casteleyn (Bel) 15/5, 15/13, 15/6
Mohammad Abbas (Egy) bt Tim Wyant (Usa) 15/7, 15/6, 15/3
Jean-Michel Arcucci (Fra) bt Andrea Bianchetti (Ita) 15/11, 15/7, 15/8
Peter Genever (Eng) bt Ben Garner (Eng) 15/13, 15/9, 15/5
Adrian Grant (Eng) bt Matt Jenson (Aus) 15/9, 15/7, 15/3
Shahier Razik (Can) bt Mark Heather (Eng) 15/7, 15/9, 15/5
James Willstrop (Eng) bt Alister Walker (Eng) 15/13, 15/13, 9/15, 15/9
Dan Jenson (Aus) bt Brett Martin (Aus) 15/11, 15/7, 15/8
Gregory Gaultier (Fra) bt Rob McFadzean (Usa) 15/4, 15/7, 15/6

Quality qualifying in New York
First day of action at the New York Athletic Club saw the exit of all the local players, in a qualifying competition whose strength would be welcomed by many a PSA tournament promoter.

Biggest shock was the exit of Belgium's Stefan Casteleyn at the hands of England's Jonathan Kemp, while the biggest disappointment was the, not unexpected, failure of Australian legend Brett Martin to progress.

World Junior Champion James Willstrop outfought fellow-Englishmen Alister Walker to set up a qualifying final with Canada's Shahier Razik.