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Inno Wood Open 2015
21-24 May, Kriens, Switzerland, $5k |
Top seed Reiko Peter takes the title
On the final day in Kriens the
last four players met at 12pm to battle for a place in this year's
PSA Inno Wood Final.
The top-half semifinal was dominated by Reiko Peter. Peter
showed a very solid performance against his compatriot Beni
Fischer and took it in three plain sets in only 45 minutes.
The bottom-half semifinal, running at the same time, was the clear
opposite of the all-swiss affair. Georger Parker and Jan
van den Herrewegen gave all they had and more. After Parker took
the first two games with some good attacking Squash, van den
Herrwegen fought back hard and was able to equal in games, before
Parker finished the nailbiting match in the fifth.
 Parker
was afterwards the one who seemed a bit more sore after the short
break between semis and final. Peter who came through the semifinal
pretty easily was able to keep up the high pace until the end of
each game, where on the other hand Parker was struggling way more.
Peter was able to pull off the first two games 11-9 and after that,
you could see the match was more a less decided. Parker showed not a
lot of resistance anymore in the third, while Peter kept on going
with the high pace. That is how it came that Peter won the last game
without losing a point and retained the PSA Inno Wood Open title.
Peter was delighted by his win in front of the homecrowd wrote after
the match:
"I'm really happy to win my first home tournament and my second
PSA title. I would like to thank all my supporters and sponsors.
"The first two games of the final match were pretty close. I had to
play well to win them. I think his energy was gone after these two
games. Anyway he played a good tournament, so congrats to him."
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  Inno
Wood Open 2015
21-24 May, Kriens, Switzerland, $5k |
Round One
23 May |
Quarters
23 May |
Semis
24 May |
Final
24 May |
[1] Reiko Peter (Sui)
11-13, 8-11, 11-7, 11-2, 11-1
Iker Pajares (Esp) |
[1] Reiko Peter
11-3, 11-7, 11-7
[8] Jonas Daehler |
[1] Reiko Peter
11-7, 11-5, 11-6 (45m)
[4] Benjamin Fischer |
[1] Reiko Peter
11-9, 11-9, 11-0 (50m)
[7] George Parker |
[8] Jonas Daehler (Sui)
7-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-8
[Q] Dimitii Steinmann (Sui) |
[5] Patrick Miescher (Sui)
11-8, 11-6, 6-11, 13-15, 11-5
Manuel Wanner (Sui) |
[5] Patrick Miescher
12-10, 11-9, 11-8
[4] Benjamin Fischer |
[4] Benjamin Fischer (Sui)
11-8, 11-8, 12-10
[Q] Remo Handl (Sui) |
[wc] Amadeo Costa (Sui)
11-5, 7-11, 11-4, 11-4
[3] Tim Weber (Ger) |
[3] Tim Weber
15-13, 11-5, 11-6
[7] George Parker |
[7] George Parker
11-7, 11-8, 6-11, 11-13, 11-9 (71m)
[4] Jan Van Den Herrewegen |
Batiste Masotti (Fra)
11-13, 11-6, 12-10, 11-2
[7] George Parker (Eng) |
[Q] Tarek Shehata (Egy)
8-11, 11-7, 11-4, 11-1
[4] Jan Van Den Herrewegen |
[4] Jan Van Den Herrewegen
11-8, 10-12, 11-3, 6-11, 11-6
[2] Chris Fuller |
[Q] Cedric Kuchen (Sui)
11-8, 11-5, 11-6
[2] Chris Fuller (Eng) |
22- May, Qualifying Finals:
Tarek Shehata (Egy) 3-0 Ben Coates (Enh)
11-6, 11-4, 11-0
Remo Handl (Sui)n3-0 Roman Allinckx (Sui)
11-5, 11-7, 11-8
Cedric Kuchen (Sui) 3-2 Yuri Farneti (Ita) 6-11, 11-7,
14-12, 4-11, 11-7
Dimitri Steinmann (Sui) 3-0 Dani Pascual (Esp)
11-3, 11-8, 13-11
21-May,
Qualifying Round One:
Ben Coates (Eng) 3-2 Jan Kurzmeyer (Sui)
11-6, 7-11, 9-11, 11-9, 11-8
Tarek Shehata (Egy) 3-1 Andreas Dietzsch,(Sui)
11-2, 9-11, 11-8, 11-5
Roman Allinckx (Sui) 3-0. Fabio Fuchs (Su)
11-9, 11-1, 11-7
Remo Handl (Sui) 3-0 Nils Roesc (Sui)
11-7, 13-11, 14-12
Yuri Farneti (Ita) 3-1 Christoph Zust (Sui)
11-6, 9-11, 11-8, 11-4
Cedric Kuchen (Sui) 3-1 Luca Wilhelmi (Sui)
11-9, 11-7, 8-11, 13-11
Dani Pascual (Esp) 3-0 Dennis Grüter (Sui)
11-2, 11-4, 11-6
Dimitri Steinmann (Sui) 3-0 Mario Tschopp (Sui)
11-3, 11-8, 11-4
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Down to the semis in Kriens
A match-packed Saturday had to bring up the semifinalists for this
years Inno Wood Open - the first of three PSA Challenger events in
Kriens.
Today's first matches started early at 10am. First thing to say: all
seeded players were the winners in th end. But many of them had
serious problems with their younger opponents.
Especially Iker Pajares Bernabeu showed some superb squash. He
managed to take off from Reiko Peter a two-games lead, before he was
struggling with a back injury and had to more a less give up in the
deciding game.
A Swiss duell was the second encounter which went into a fifth game.
Manuel Wanner and Patrick Miescher battled everything out from each
other in four close game until Miescher could pull of a fast lead in
the fifth - what was the end for Wanner.
Other players which where close to an upset were Tarek Shehata,
Baptiste Masotti and Dimitri Steinmann. Also wildcard receiver
Amadeo Costa was able to take one game from number three seed Tim
Weber.
After five hours break the winners of the first round already came
back on court to battle for a semifinal spot.
George Parker and Tim Weber gave everything in the first game and
Parker won it in a nailbiting result of 15-13. After that Weber
seemed to be a bit out of energy and Parker used his advantage to
close out the next two games and with them the match. First small
upset of the day.
The second upset was produced simultaniously on the court next to it
by Jan van den Herrewegen. He took out second seed Fuller in close
five games.
While Reiko Peter had his problems in the morning, he showed a much
better performances in the quarterfinal against his best friend
Jonas Dähler. He closed out in three straight sets and saved some
energy for tomorrows semis - once again it had to be a Kriens based
player.
After Patrick Miescher won against him in the Swiss Champs play-off
for the bronce medal, revenge was Benjamin Fischers purpose today.
As Miescher seemed to be a bit tired from the though morning match,
Fischer succeeded in his aim in three close games.
So tomorrows semis bring up another "Krienser"-battle as Reiko Peter
is up against Benjamin Fischer. In the bottom half the two
upset-producers from today Jan van den Herrewegen and George Parker
will fight for a place in the final. Action begins at 12pm followed
by the final at 5pm.
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Qualifying complete in Kriens
The final round of qualifying was on today's programme. In three of
four matches a Swiss qualifier was still possible.
But the first match started with an all foreigner affair: "Shehata
vs. Coates" - or more a less as Tarek Shehata lives and studies in
the french part of Switzerland. From the beginning Shehata was more
dominant than his opponent Coates. He was able to keep up the
dominance through the whole match and won it in three plain games.
Second on court was Dimitri Steinmann against Dani Pascual.
Steinmann started fast and attacking and succeeded in having a good
lead in a short time. After winning the first game things got a bit
closer - but still Steinmann managed to play always a bit better
than Pascual and won also the next two games. A seventh Swiss player
in the maindraw guaranteed.
A nailbiter was the third match of today. Cedric Kuchen and Yuri
Farneti fought as long as they were able to and really pushed each
other to the limit. In the end Kuchen was the one who could leave
the court with the head held high. After 1-2 in games Farneti was
yet able to equal in score but Kuchen took the deciding fifth 11-7.
That made eight swiss players in the maindraw.
And the ninth was to follow in the last qualification match of this
years PSA Inno Wood Open. Roman Allinckx was up against Remo Handl,
two players based in Kriens. Handl was able to keep the pace high
enough to see his opponent struggling a bit. Allinckx still showed
some nice shots but was not able to do more than keep up with the
pace until the midst of each set. Handl took each game after several
errors of his opponent in the end of each game.
The winners of the qualification were alloted to their opponents in
the main event as follow: Steinmann faces Daehler, Handl-Fischer,
Shehata-van den Herrewegen and Kuchen-Fuller.
To be pointed out is the fact that just one player in the top half
of the main draw is not a Swiss player! Iker Pajares Bernabeu is the
only player which is able to prevent a Swiss finalist. And he is
facing a though task against top seeded and in-form Reiko Peter.
Will he be able to stop the Swiss guys? We will see in the upcoming
day which seems to bring once again some good matches to the
Sportpark Pilatus in Kriens...
Day One:
The first day of action here in Kriens at the PSA Inno Wood Open,
and almost every match went according to the seedings.
Just one upset - Cedric Kuchen managed to win a close encounter
against compatriot Luca Wilhelmi in four games.
However, all the local swiss players showed their talent and some of
them even succeeded in taking games against their professional
opponents.
Jan Kurzmeyer's performance against top seed Ben Coates has to be
pointed out.
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