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TODAY at the BJO
Day Two, Thu 3rd:
Daily reports from
Sheffield ...
No letup in the action, with twelve
courts on the go from 9am to 10pm, another 200+ matches to play -
including two rounds for the U19 boys - but by the close we were down
to the last eight in many events ...
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Draws & Results
ChitChat:
Tecnifibre #1
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Girls
U19 |
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Top eight through at Abbeydale
No upsets in the last sixteen of the Girls U19, but England's
Sarah-Jane Perry came closest as she couldn't hold on to a 2-0 lead
against Nour Baghat.
It wasn't a pretty match, with the Egyptian taking every second she
could - and more - between points, and at one point even resorted to
shirt-pulling. The pattern of play seemed to break Perry's
concentration as her earlier winners started hitting the tin.
Perry took a 6/2 lead in the decider but Baghat fought back to take
the match after 75 minutes to the delight of the Egyptian party.
Baghat now faces top seed Camille Serme who saw off the
challenge of the much-improved Maria Toor Pakay. The
Pakistani's deception, combined with exceptionally hard hitting,
didn't make much impression in the first two games but took her to an
8/3 lead in the third before the European Junior Champion staged a
recovery.
British champion Victoria Lust kept home hopes alive, beating
Natalie Pritchard in four in a match that was slightly extended when
the ball burst at 9/8 match ball in the fourth. Lust now faces
Germany's Sina Wall.
Despite being a year younger than her sister who is playing in the U17
event, Nouran El Torky fulfilled her seeding when she proved
too fast and too accurate for France's Coline Aumard. The Egyptian now
meets second seed Annie Au who wasted no time in beating Jackie
Moss.
Also in the quarters - which start at 13.40 tomorrow -are Malaysia's
Wee Wern Low and New Zealand's Amanda Cranston, both
straight game winners.
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Serme bt Pakay
9/3, 9/3, 10/8
Baghat bt Perry 5/9, 3/9, 9/2, 9/1, 9/6
Cranston bt Ballman 9/1,
9/7, 9/0
Low bt VD Heijden
9/2, 9/2, 9/4
Lust bt Pritchard 9/1, 1/9, 9/2, 10/8
Wall bt Gilles
9/3, 9/3, 9/4
El Torky bt Aumard
9/5, 9/2, 9/4
Au bt Moss
9/1, 9/1, 9/2
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Boys U19 |
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Farag ousts Mueller
on a good day for Egypt
Two seeding upsets in the Boys U19 last 16 as Hong Kong's Leo Au
overcame Malaysia's Ivan Yuen in three games. Both very quick, Au
was just that bit quicker and was pretty much in control from start to
end.
Au now meets British Champion Adrian Waller who also looked
comfortable despite third-game lapse against Denmark's Christian
Olesen.
Joe Lee secured a second English spot in the quarters with a
hard-fought win over Indian Harinderpal Singh. After two long opening
games Lee pushed on to take the third in double-quick time. Lee meets
last year's surprise package Rudi Willemse who just edged out
Kamran Khan in a match that could have gone either way.
France's last representative Greg Marche kept their hopes alive
with a straight-games win over Michael Harris. Plenty of
well-contested rallies but the Frenchman's speed and retrieving forced
errors from the Englishman to end many of those rallies.
Marche meets the day's big upset winner Wael Farag. After
squeezing home in a tight first game against second seed Nicholas
Mueller, the Egyptian took advantage of an injury to the Swiss as he
swept into the quarters.
The top quarter-final will be all-Egyptian. Henrik Mustonen couldn't
match the pace, power and retrieving ability of top seed Mohamed El
Shorbagy, while Andrew Wagih weathered a storm of attacking
squash - in front of a packed and very noisy crowd - from Pakistan's
Shoaib Hassan, eventually prevailing in 88 minutes of intense squash.
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B19
Round 3:
Shorbagy bt Mustonen 9/0, 9/2, 9/2
Wagih bt Hassan 6/9, 9/5, 9/7, 9/5
Waller bt Olesen 9/3, 3/9, 9/1,
9/4
Au bt Yuen
9/3, 9/5, 9/4
Lee bt Singh
10/8, 9/7, 9/2
Willemse bt Khan 9/4, 9/7, 7/9, 9/7
Marche bt Harris
9/1, 9/3, 9/3
Farag bt Mueller
10/9, 9/4, 9/1
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Speedsters reach last 16
The day started at Abbeydale with 16 Boys U19 matches, and there are
some seriously speedy performers in this lineup. Leo Au, Ivan Yuen
and Harinderpal Singh are three whose speed around court is
particularly impressive, and all three won in straight games even if
it took Yuen and Singh over 50 minutes to complete their three games.
Home interest was kept alive as Adrian Waller, Joe Lee and Michael
Harris progressed smoothly enough - Lee winning 27/0 - and Egypt
are well represented too with top seed Mohamed El Shorbagy and
Andrew Wagih also coming through in straight games, s did
second-seeded European junior champion Nicolas Mueller.
Also through to the last sixteen are Henrik Mustonen (Fin),
Kristian Oleson (Den), Rudy Willemse (Rsa), Shoahib
Hassan (Pak), Kamran Khan (Mas), Wael Farag (Egy)
and Greg Marche (Fra).
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B19 Round 2:
Shorbagy bt Letourneau 9/3, 9/5, 9/1
Mustonen bt Malhotra 9/3, 9/4, 9/1
Wagih bt Petrucci
9/2, 9/7, 9/6
Hassan bt Fuller
9/3, 9/0, 9/3
Waller bt Dabad
9/2, 9/3, 9/2
Oleson bt Graham 9/1,
9/0, 9/4
Yuen bt Vauzelle
9/7, 9/7, 9/6
Au bt Saqib
9/2, 9/1, 9/3
Singh bt Widdison
9/2, 10/9, 9/6
Lee bt Avron
9/0, 9/0, 9/0
Khan bt Murrils 9/6, 8/10, 9/2,
9/2
Willese bt Williams
9/6, 9/3, 9/6
Harris bt Bilal
9/6, 7/9, 9/3, 9/5
Marche bt Shannon 9/2,
9/2, 9/8
Farag bt Mehboob 9/2, 9/0, 6/9, 9/6
Mueller bt Ingham
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Two extreme times ...
Over at Hallamshire the day started with 16 matches in the Boys U17.
No major upsets to report, but two extremes as second seed Farhan
Zaman won in ten minutes while fellow-Pakistani Hamza Bakhan
took a massive 134 minutes to overcome India's Ravi Dixit.
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Hazma Bakhan (Pak) bt
Ravi Dixit (Ind)
7/9, 10/8, 9/4, 5/9, 9/7 (134m)
In what everyone
here believes is the longest BJO match on record, the Hallamshire
schedule was thrown out of kilter as the first match took well over
two hours. Cyrus Poncha relates the match from Ravi's viewpoint
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He was 5/7 down in the
first, then won two consecutive points on the serve - one into the
nick, one into the body - toi take the lead after 20 minutes.
He blew it from 8/3 up in the second - he really should have won that
one - then played rubbish in the third to go 2/1 down.
The fourth was very close all the way, but he pulled away at the end
to level the match.
They were both playing safe, 90% of Hazma's shots were to the back,
and Ravii was trying for a few winners, some working some not.
Ravi started the fifth 1-0 after a conduct stroke for being late on
court, went 4/0 and then 5/2 up was pulled back to 5-all.
At 7-all they both started cramping in the same rally - neither of
them were really suffering though, they both kept going well.
In the end it was just a couple of unforced errors that decided the
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Amr Wagih gets agitated ... |
Egypt's U13 team ... |
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Boys U15 |
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Marwan El Shorbagy (Egy)
bt Greg Mason (Wal)
9/0, 9/2, 9/1
He had to wait a day, but once the
younger Shorbagy got onto court there was no holding him back.
Displaying many similarities to his brother, Marwan kept his opponent
on a tight leash, moving him from corner to corner before delivering
the finishing blows.
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Girls U15 |
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Julia Le Coq (Fra) bt
Victoria Temple-Murray (Eng)
9/7, 6/9, 9/4, 3/9, 9/4 (42m)
One of those matches that could have
gone either way, with both girls taking runs of points as one then the
other gained the upper hand.
At one point Julia slipped at the front of the court and lay sprawled
by the tin. With the whole court at her mercy Victoria slammed the
ball into the tin, just missing Julia!
In the decider it was the French girl who stepped up the pace to take
a winning lead.
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Menat Nasser (Egy) bt
Sachika Balvani (Ind)
5/9, 9/1, 9/4, 9/3
Having lost in the semi-finals of the
Scottish last weekend, hopes were high for Sachika Balvani. The small,
nimble Indian got off to a good start, but slowly the added power and
weight of shot of Menat Nasser began to tell as the Egyptian ran out
the winner in four games.
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