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Florida State Open 2011
06-11 Dec, Boca Raton, $12k |
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11-Dec, Final:
Rodriquez edges past Khan in Florida
Final
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tremendous final. Athleticism was on full display and the final game
was quite the nail biter all the way through with Miguel prevailing
on a couple of stroke calls against Kamran to end the match.
The Colombian thus claims his 19th PSA title, with a second
consecutive 12-10 in the fifth victory!
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 Florida
State Open 2011
06-11 Dec, Boca Raton, $12k |
Round One
08 Dec |
Quarters
09 Dec |
Semis
10 Dec |
Final
11 Dec |
[1] Miguel Angel Rodriguez (Col)
3/?
Fabien
Verseille (Fra) |
[1] Miguel Angel Rodriguez
11-7, 11-6, 11-9
Dylan Bennett |
[1] Miguel Angel Rodriguez
10-12, 8-11, 13-11, 11-3, 12-10
Yasir Butt |
[1] Miguel Angel Rodriguez
11-8, 3-11, 11-3, 10-12, 12-10 (130m)
[3] Kamran Khan |
Dylan Bennett (Ned)
11-3, 11-2, 11-7
[Q] Geoffrey Demont (Fra) |
Anthony Graham (Eng)
11-5, 12-10, 12-14, 11-9 (90m)
[Q] Peter Creed (Wal) |
[Q] Peter Creed
11-7, 11-9, 11-13, 10-12, 11-5
Yasir Butt |
[4] Wade Johnstone (Aus)
11-8, 11-7, 10-12, 11-7
Yasir Butt (Pak) |
Alfredo Avila (Mex)
11-8, 11-9, 12-10 (70m)
[3] Kamran Khan (Mas) |
[3] Kamran Khan
12-10, 3-11, 11-2, 11-5
Erik Tepos Valtierra |
[3] Kamran Khan
11-8, 11-2, 11-5
[2] Yann Perrin |
Erik Tepos Valtierra (Mex)
11-5, 11-8, 7-11, 11-4 (38m)
[Q] Tom Pashley (Eng) |
Clinton Leeuw (Rsa)
12-10. 11-7, 5-11, 11-8 (55m)
[Q] Karim AGA Samy (Egy) |
[Q] Karim AGA Samy
11-9, 11-4, 4-0 rtd
[2] Yann Perrin |
Joan Lezaud (Fra)
8-11, 11-4, 11-9, 11-5 (60m)
[2] Yann Perrin (Fra) |
Thanks to Geoffrey Demont for the results ...
Qualifying Finals:
Karim AGA Samy (Egy) bt (7) Josh Cardwell (Aus)
3/1
Tom Pashley (Eng) bt Thomas Brinkman (Can)
3/0
Geoffrey Demont (Fra) bt Fred Reid
3/0
Peter Creed (Wal) bt Kam Hing Choong (Mas)
3/0
Qualifying Round One:
Josh Cardwell (Aus) bt Khaled
Abdel Fatah Ghoniem (Egy) 11/6, 11/5, 9/11, 5/11, 11/4
Tom Pashley (Eng) bt Le Roy Leong (Mas)
11/5 11/7 11/5
Fred Reid bt Coline Ramasra (Tri)
11/6 11/9 11/4
Geoffrey Demont (Fra) bt Salvador Martinez
11/3, 11/6, 11/5
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10-Dec, Semis:
Rodriquez survives,
to face Khan in Florida Final
Top seed Miguel Angel Rodriguez survived by the skin of
his teeth in Florida, coming from two games down to beat Pakistan's
Yasir Butt 12-10 in the fifth to set up a final against
third-seeded Malaysian Kamran Khan. Kevin Jullion reports
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Miguel was down 2 games to nil and drew to 2-2 when Yasir went for a
series of winners in the 3rd and 4th game to try and stem the Miguel
tidal change. There was a definite swing to the momentum of the
match in the 4th when Yasir took some early-in-the-rally chances
that only paid off about 20% of the time.
In the 5th game Yasir had several match balls starting at 10-6 and
it looked to everyone watching that it was just a matter of time
before he hit another of his amazing overhead nick winners (he hits
them with impunity from both the forehand and backhand sides); but
none of these particular ones were perfect “rollers” and Miguel
showed some cat-like reflexes on more than a few occasions to stay
alive in points that he really had no chance at winning and yet he
scraped, scratched and clawed his way back to 10-10 and the eventual
win when Yasir hit a few very tense drop-shots that appeared to be
much more conservative than the ones he was hitting earlier in the
match and alas those drops didn’t put Miguel under any difficulty.
I recall one rally where there were 5 shots taken in less than 1.5
seconds…thrilling hand-eye coordination that made this one the
“match of the tournament” thus far.
 Kamran
continued his fine form of his prior matches, his court movement is
cat-like as well (Miguel displayed the same hand down technique),
many times using his non-playing hand to retain his balance while
scraping along the court floor and springing back to two feet nano-seconds
later.
I recall a series of drop-shot front court rallies that had Yann on
his back foot a bit and guessing that a cross-court off-speed
counter drop might be coming only to find that Kamran had pushed a
straight drive to impeccable length at the back of the court.
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09-Dec, Quarters:
Normal Order Restored in Florida
After a series of upsets in the first round, normal order was pretty
much restored in the quarter-finals of the Florida State Open at the
top thee seeds progressed to the semi-finals.
Top seed Miguel Angel Rodriguez beat Dutchman Dylan Bennett
in straight games, and now meets unseeded Pakistani Yasir Butt,
who saw a two-game lead disappear before beating Welshman Peter
Creed in the fifth.
In the bottom half France's Yann Perrin was two and a half
games up against Karim AGA Samy when the Egyptian retired with an
injury, and his semi-final opponent will be Kamran Khan, the
third seeded Malaysian who beat Erik Tepos Valtierra in four. |
08-Dec, Round One:
Upsets abound in Florida
 Fourth
seed Wade Johnstone crashed out and two qualifiers prevailed in the
first round of the Betty F Griffin Memorial Florida State Open on an
opening day of shocks at Lifetime Athletic Club in Boca Raton,
Florida, USA.
Unseeded Pakistani Yasir Butt produced the biggest upset when he
despatched fourth-seeded Australian Johnstone 11-8, 11-7, 10-12,
11-7.
The world No71 from Lahore will now face qualifier Peter Creed
following the Welshman's marathon 11-5, 12-10, 12-14, 11-9 victory
over higher-ranked Englishman Anthony Graham in 90 minutes.
 Egyptian
Karim AGA Samy also claimed a surprise quarter-final berth. The
22-year-old qualifier from Cairo overwhelmed Clinton Leeuw, a South
African ranked more than 20 places higher, 2-10, 11-7, 5-11, 11-8 in
55 minutes.
But top seed Miguel Angel Rodriguez needed only 37 minutes to
register his place in the last eight. The world No36 from Bogota
defeated Frenchman Fabien Verseille 11-5, 11-0, 11-7 and will now
face Dutchman Dylan Bennett for a place in the semi-finals.
 Title-holder
Alfredo Avila will not be on the winner's podium for the second year
in a row. The 20-year-old Mexican who upset the top seed en-route to
success in the event last year, battled for 70 minutes against
Kamran Khan - but it was the third-seeded Malaysian who triumphed
11-8, 11-9, 12-10 to reach the quarter-finals.
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