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 Flowerbulb
Open 2009
11-13 Dec, Hillegom, Netherlands, $4k |
Round One
12 Dec |
Quarters
12 Dec |
Semis
13 Dec |
Final
13 Dec |
[1] Emma Beddoes (Eng)
11-4, 11-7, 11-8
Sina Wall (Ger) |
[1] Emma Beddoes
11-7, 11-5, 11-4
[5] Lotte Eriksen |
[1] Emma Beddoes
11-8, 14-12, 9-11,
11-9
[3] Victoria Lust |
[1] Emma Beddoes
11-8, 11-2, 11-6
[2] Annelize Naudé |
[5] Lotte Eriksen (Nor)
11-6, 11-8, 11-2
Dagmar Vermuelen (Ned) |
[3] Victoria Lust (Eng)
7-11, 11-2, 11-3, 11-7
[Q] Carrie Ramsay (Eng) |
[3] Victoria Lust
11-2, 11-5, 11-3
[6] Adel Weir |
[6] Adel Weir (Rsa)
11-8, 11-7, 11-6
Milou Van Der Heijden (Ned) |
[Q] Melissa Meulenbelt (Ned)
11-2, 11-4, 9-11, 11-5
[7] Stephanie Edmison (Can) |
[7] Stephanie Edmison
11-8, 9-11, 12-10,
9-11, 11-2
[4] Lauren Selby |
[4] Lauren Selby
11-3, 12-10, 8-11,
11-3
[2] Annelize Naudé |
[Q] Muqaddas Ashraf (Pak)
11-6, 11-1, 11-7
[4] Lauren Selby (Eng) |
[Q] Margriet Huisman (Ned)
11-6, 9-11, 15-13, 8-11, 11-8
[8] Coline Aumard (Fra) |
[8] Coline Aumard
11-9, 13-15, 11-2,
11-6
[2] Annelize Naudé |
Leonie Holt (Eng)
11-9, 11-6, 11-2
[2] Annelize Naudé (Ned) |
Qualifying:
Muqaddas Ashraf (Pak) Bt.
Lisette Eschweiler (Ned)
14-12, 11-2, 11-8
Carrie Ramsey (Eng) Bt. Tessa Van Der Kamp (Ned)
11-2, 11-2, 11-5
Melissa Meulenbelt (Ned) Bt. Patricia Van Geest (Ned)
11-1, 11-2, 11-1
Margriet Huisman (Ned) Bt. Zephanie Curgenven (Eng) 9-11,
11-1, 11-4, 11-5
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12-Dec-09:
All seeds through to
Flowerbulb quarters
Tommy Berden reports
The Flowerbulb Open started today with eight first round matches,
five of them featuring Dutch players. Unfortunately for the home
crowd there was only one that progressed to the next round as all
top seeds proved the seeding committee right.
Second seed Annelize Naudé - a former winner of the WISPA
Tour 4 event in the Dutch city of Hillegom - beat Leonie Holt of
England in straight games. On the adjacent court Margriet Huisman
was battling hard for a place in the quarter-finals against her much
more experienced compatriot. The 25-year old was denied though by
France’s Coline Aumard, who managed to outlast Huisman in the
closest match of the day. At 1-1 in games there was a crucial game
which was extended to 15-13 in the favour of the French girl.
Huisman fought her way back to win the fourth, but quickly found
herself 9-2 down in the fifth. Although she threatened to make an
unthinkable comeback - closing the gap to only one single point - it
was Aumard who eventually took the decider and therefore the match.
Earlier in the day, Norwegian Lotte Eriksen had already
beaten Dagmar Vermeulen. After dropping the first easily, Vermeulen
played a good second game in which she made a crucial mistake at 7-7
with a reverse boast off the serve which landed right in the middle
of the court. The error proved very costly as the Dutch woman was
only able to score three more points in the rest of the match with
Eriksen looking more and more confident in the third. Meanwhile on
the court next door top seed Emma Beddoes was up against
Germany’s Sina Wall. This match was a lot more closely contended
then the scores suggest. Wall worked the rallies well with some good
drives and working boasts but was unable to really threaten the
retrieval and volleying skills of Beddoes.
Netherland’s Milou van der Heijden played some great squash in
patches against Adel Weir making sure the South African had
to use her retrieval skills to cover the entire court, but it was
the unforced errors of the Dutch junior which proved to be
detrimental to the match. Weir now takes on England’s Victoria
Lust, who overcame compatriot Carrie Ramsey in four games,
winning quite convincingly after having dropped the first to her
younger opponent.
England’s Lauren Selby defeated Muqaddas Ashraf in a
straightforward match. The Pakistani who was competing in her very
first International WISPA event was outplayed by a more experienced
Selby, who goes on to play Stephanie Edmison. The Canadian
seemed too powerful for Holland’s Mellissa Meulenbelt in the early
stages of the match, but the Dutch girl fought hard to get a game
before Edmison took back full control in the fourth.
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All
top four seeds, three from England and one from the host country the
Netherlands, moved into the semi finals of the Squash Hillegom
Flowerbulb Open 2009 today in the Dutch city of Hillegom in
contrasting style. 
In
the bottom of the draw Dutch ace Annelize Naudé and England’s Lauren
Selby had to work harder to clinch their expected place in the
semi’s. 