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Savcor Finnish Open 2011
08-13 Feb, Mikkeli, Finland, $15k |
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Coppinger claims
Finnish title in Mikkeli
Poku Salo reports
Third seed Stephen Coppinger from South Africa is the new Finnish
Open champion. In Sundays final Coppinger defeated first seed Joey
Barrington from England in four games.
Barrington got a good start to the match and took 5-0 and 7-3 leads
before Coppinger got his game sorted. He saved two game balls and
got one himself before Barrington managed to take the game 15-13.
In the second game Coppinger was in there already from the beginning
and kept the lead all the way to equal the match at 1-1. The third
game was closely fought until 6-6 when Barrington started to show
some problems with the back of his thigh. The movement was not quite
the same as so far and Coppinger could take charge.
In the fourth Barrington was not anymore able to challenge the South
African and he took the Finnish Open title.
"Of course I'm happy with the title, but it's never nice to win when
your opponent is injured", said the Champion at the after match
interview.
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 Savcor
Finnish Open 2011
08-13 Feb, Mikkeli, Finland, $15k |
Round One
10 Feb 14.00-21.00 |
Quarters
11 Feb |
Semis
12 Feb |
Final
13 Feb |
[1] Joey Barrington (Eng)
11/5 11/3 11/3 (33 min)
[Q] Leandro Romiglio (Esp) |
[1] Joey Barrington
11/7 11/9 11/2 (46 min)
[Q] Jonathan Harford |
[1] Joey Barrington
4/11, 11/13, 11/6, 11/4, 11/6
Bradley Hindle |
[1] Joey Barrington
15.00
[3] Steve Coppinger |
[Q] Matthew Karwalski (Aus)
11/5 11/7 11/9 (39 min)
[Q] Jonathan Harford (Eng) |
Kashif Shuja (Nzl)
11/5 11/6 6/11 11/8 (49 min)
Bradley Hindle (Mlt) |
Bradley Hindle
8/11 11/4 8/11 11/7 11/8 (111 min)
Davide Bianchetti |
Davide Bianchetti (Ita)
11/7 11/13 8/11 11/6 11/5 (94 min)
[4] Mark Krajcsak (Hun) |
[3] Steve Coppinger (Rsa)
11/3 rtd.
Robbie Temple (Eng) |
[3] Steve Coppinger
11/4 11/3 11/4 (37 min)
Henrik Mustonen |
[3] Steve Coppinger
11/7, 11/9, 14/12
[2] Omar Abdel Aziz |
Kristian Frost (Den)
11/8 11/5 11/3 (32 min)
Henrik Mustonen (Fin) |
Campbell Grayson (Nzl)
9/11 11/9 11/7 11/8 (55 min)
[Q] Rasmus Nielsen (Den) |
[Q] Rasmus Nielsen
11/4 12/10 11/2 (42 min)
[2] Omar Abdel Aziz |
Matias Tuomi (Fin)
11/6 9/11 11/2 9/11 11/9 (57 min)
[2] Omar Abdel Aziz (Egy) |
9-Feb-2011,
Qualifying Finals:
Matthew Karwalski AUS
bt Jonas Daehler SUI
11/2 11/6 12/10 (25m)
Rasmus Nielsen DEN bt Reiko Peter SUI
11/0 11/5 11/8 (20m)
Leandro Romiglio Esp bt Khawaja Adil Maqbool Pak
10/12 11/8 11/1 7/11 14/12 (53m)
Jonathan Harford ENG bt Nathan Lake ENG
11/6 11/3 11/5 (27m)
8-Feb-2011,
Qualifying First round:
Matthew Karwalski AUS bye
Jonas Daehler SUI bt Jonathan Geekie SCO
11/5 11/6 11/7 (29 min)
Reiko Peter SUI bt Alejandro Garbi Caro ESP
11/5 14/12 11/7 (34 min)
Rasmus Nielsen DEN bt Justin Beard AUS
12/10 11/7 11/5 (37 min)
Adil Maqbool PAK bt Caspar Grauball Nielsen NED
9/11 12/10 7/11 11/2 11/5 (47m)
Leandro Romiglio ESP bt Arttu Moisio FIN
11/6 11/7 11/5 (27 min)
Nathan Lake ENG bt Alex Ingham ENG
11/9 11/8 11/9 (43 min)
Jonathan Harford ENG bt James Simpson ENG
11/5 11/8 11/7 (29 min)
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Semi-Finals in Mikkeli
Poku Salo reports
The first semifinal was between the top seeded Joey Barrington
and unseeded Bradley Hindle.
Hindle, whose nearly two hours quarterfinal ended 16 hours ago
started the match strongly. He went to a 8-0 lead and took the game
11-4. In the second game Barrington started to get into the match
and it looked as he was going to take it at game ball 10-9. Hindle
fought back and took the game 13-11, but the quarterfinal marathon
started to take its toll. Barrington started to take charge of the
match in the third and marched on to take the match.
"Bradley's recovery from yesterday's marathon was amazing. I knew
it's going to be a tough match. He was a lot more relaxed than me
but I managed to settle down in the third", said Barrington after
the match.
"I think I played well and it was a good match. I was mentally
fitter than yesterday, but the harder I pushed the harder it
seemed", commented Hindle .
Third seed Steve Coppinger's performance yesterday against
Henrik Mustonen promised a tight fought battle today against second
seed Omar Abdel Aziz. The match started with Coppinger taking
charge and he went from 9-2 to a 11-7 win in the first. In the
second game Aziz came into the game, but Coppinger was able to win
it 11-9. In the third Aziz managed to get to game ball before
Coppinger took the match with his third match ball.
"I saw the top players in the Swedish Open last week and that
inspired me. I was lucky in the first round and yesterday I played
well. I haven't played in a final for a while so I'm looking forward
to tomorrow's final", said Coppinger.
"He played better than me and deserves to be in the final. He was
pushing me to the corners and I was not patient enough. I hope the
crowd will enjoy tomorrows final and I come back next year for a new
try", was Aziz's comment.
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One seed falls in
Finnish First Round
The first round of the Savcor Finnish Open saw one of the four seeds
falling out.
Fourth seed Mark Krajcsak from Hungary was the victim as Italy’s
Davide Bianchetti took a five games win in the longest match of the
night. Topseeded Joey Barrington had no problems in overcoming
qualifier Leandro Romiglio in three games and third seed Stephen
Coppinger had it even easier, as Robbie Temple had to retire with an
injury after the first game.
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seed Omar Abdel Aziz on the other hand was in trouble with local
wild card Matias Tuomi. Matias put on an excellent performance
pressing Aziz to five games. In the fifth Matias was 9-8 up when a
very questionable shot from Aziz was accepted and turned the score
to 9 all instead of two matchballs to Tuomi.
Finnish hopes now lay on Henrik Mustonen who moved Kristian Frost
Olesen all over the court and had him gasping for air already in the
first game.
The lineup for the quarterfinals promises an interesting day on
Friday.
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