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20-Dec:
Rosner takes Majorca title
Top seeded German Simon Rosner claimed the Fernando Vidal Salva
Memorial title in Majorca with an impressive victory over Scotland's
Alan Clyne in the final.
Rosner was in control, finding a good length and volleying nearly
everything and, of course, playing at the front his stunning winners
as always.
On the other hand, Clyne was not completely there. He was moving
fast like he usually does, but he clipped the tin so many times
today. It seemed that he wanted to play to accurate and he just
couldn't under the pressure the german was putting on the ball.
There were very good rallies with some unbelievable pick ups and
winners from nowhere, specially at the beginning of each game, but
in the end, it was Rosner who raised his fist after the last rally.
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 Fernando
Vidal Salva Memorial
Trofeo Barcelo Resorts
16-20 Dec, Majorca, $10k |
Round One
17 Dec |
Quarters
18 Dec |
Semis
19 Dec |
Final
20 Dec |
[1] Simon Rosner (Ger)
11-7, 11-7, 11-9 (35m)
[Q] Ben Coleman (Eng) |
[1] Simon Rosner
9-11, 11-9, 12-10, 7-11, 11-5) 60
[5] Dylan Bennett |
[1] Simon Rosner
11-6, 11-7, 11-8 (32m)
[3] Kashif Shuja |
[1] Simon Rosner
11-7, 11-7,
11-6 (30m)
[6] Alan Clyne |
[5] Dylan Bennett (Ned)
1-8, 6-11, 12-10, 11-9 (38m)
Johan Bouquet (Fra) |
[3] Kashif Shuja (Nzl)
8-5 rtd
Shaun Le Roux (Eng) |
[3] Kashif Shuja
-11, 11-7, 11-9, 11-8 50m)
[7] Steve Finitsis |
[7] Steve Finitsis (Aus)
11-9, 11-7, 10-12, 12-10 (55m)
Chris Truswell (Eng) |
[Q] Jethro Binns (Wal)
3-11, 5-11, 11-9, 2-11 (44m)
[8] Adrian Waller (Eng) |
[8] Adrian Waller
11-5, 11-5, 11-4 (40m)
[4] Jens Schoor |
[8] Adrian Waller
11-4, 11-5, 11-7 (30m)
[6] Alan Clyne |
[Q] Leandro Romiglio (Arg)
11-7, 6-11, 8-11, 2-11 (45m)
[4] Jens Schoor (Ger) |
[Q] Amr Khaled Khalifa (Egy)
9-11, 11-8, 5-11, 6-11 (50m)
[6] Alan Clyne (Sco) |
[6] Alan Clyne
11-5, 11-1, 11-7 (52m)
David Vidal |
David Vidal (Esp)
11-8, 12-10, 11-5 (40m)
[2] Julien Balbo (Fra) |
In Memoriam
Fernando Vidal Salva died in a tragic accident on August 3
2001.
Most of you did not know him, in fact it should say you did not have
the luck to have known him, because to meet Fernando was quite a
good luck.
From him I stress that was a person committed all that he did, in
his work as a social worker he was it with all those people who
attended and to all those he worked with, with his family and of
course with the sport in general and in particular with the squash,
He practiced mostly enjoying it. Fernando would listen and had an
enormous capacity to understand why each one is as is and does what
he does.
He listened, understood and approached people to reign in its
interior no rancour and in this way they projects the good of
everyone and thus make live of each and of people around us
something worth enjoying.
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History
From the first edition, this tournament had different formats. It
normally was a local Masters, and once it was the Spanish
Championship. And, this last edition has become a PSA tournament.
National players as Albert Codina, Salvador Miró, Alex Garbí and
Oriol Salvia had played this tournamnent. But the most
representative player in this tournament has been always Borja Golán,
who has come there every year. Unfortunately he is injured right now
and cannot participate.
But, the most important thing, is the friendship feeling and healthy
competitiveness that all the players had here. |
19-Dec:
Rosner to meet Clyne
in Majorca final
Top seed Simon Rosner controlled his semi-final with Kashif Shuja
completely, volleying at will and finding some stunning winners that
made Kashif suffer a lot. The pace that Rosner put on the ball was
just unbelievable and Shuja could not do anything against it. After
32 minutes the match was closed and Rosner claimed his place in the
final.
Then it was the turn of Alan Clyne and Adrian Waller. Adrian was
trying to attack the ball and finish of the rallies, but
unfortunately he clipped the tin too often.
And Clyne just played a better game today. Crossing the ball low and
hard making his opponent turn so quickly that he just could defend.
Alan was controlling the pace of the match and find some lovely
straight dropshots glued to the wall that forced Waller's mistakes.
Half an hour later we had the second finalist ...
Vidal beats Balbo
in first round upset
Seven of the eight seeds progressed to
the quarter-finals in Majorca, with Spain's David Vidal
generating the only upset as he beat seed number two Julien Balbo in
the first match of the day.
Vidal took the first game and clawed back from 6-0 down in the
second to 6-6. Then Balbo woke up again and took three points in a
row and got a 10-7 lead. The spaniard came back and forced the tie
break to win the game by 12-10. After that game the frenchman lost
his concentration in the third and made too many unforced errors and
lost by 11-5.
Adrian Waller looked in control against Jethro Binns, and was
managing to control the first and the second games quite
comfortably, but in the third Jethro made a great push and took it
11-9. That push took a lot of energy from him and he was out of the
court in the last game.
Top seed Simon Rosner had the control against qualifier Ben
Coleman. He always seemed to have an answer to Ben's attacking
shots, and never looked under real pressure as he took the match
with a consistent 3-0. Congrats to Ben who did a great tournament.
Jens Schoor against Leandro Romiglio was quite a physical
match, specially Leandro, who was doing the hard job running from
corner to corner. In the end he got tired and could not do anyhing
in the last game.
Alan Clyne and Amr Khaled Khalifa showed a great performance.
The first two games were really close, although the egyptian got
really tired as Clyne's counter dropshots were killing him and paid
dividends in the third and fourth game as Alan took them quite
comfortably.
Kashif Shuja and Shaun Le Roux had a short match, as
unfortunately Shaun got injured at 8-5 in the first game.
After he played a lob, Shuja played a boast from the back and Le
Roux just crouched down and felt an intense pain in the ligament of
the abductor muscle. He tried to continue but finally he retired.
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16-Dec, Qualifying Finals
Ben Coleman beat
Piedro Pchweeterman
7-11, 12-10, 11-6, 9-11, 9-11 (75m)
Jethro Binns beat Mathias Toumi
7-11 11-7 11-1 11-5 (43m)
Leandro Romilglio beat Alex Ingham
8-11, 4-11, 7-11, 13-15 (55m)
Amr Hhaled Khalifa beat Charles Sharpes
6-11, 11-9, 9-11, 10-12 (50m)
15-Dec, Qualifying Round
One:
Ben Coleman won a very physical match to Phil Nightingale.
Especially,
the last game was a very hard push from both, playing at a
very fast pace.
Matias Tuomi played very well agains Chris Fuller. Both of
them were playing a lot to the back hitting the ball hard
and try to volley a lot.
Jethro Binns and Fausto Gomez, our junior local, played a
very close match with a few too many lets sometimes. But
Fausto did a great match in patches.
Alex Ingham won a very close match against Alex Garbi. He
was picking up nearly everything until Garbi got tired and
clipped the tin. There were some discussion about the
referees decisions with the crowd not very happy, but you
know... Garbi was the local hope. In the end, Ingham got his
revenge from the last week in Tenerife.
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