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Kuwait
Open 2010
Qualifying, 09-10 Sep, St George's
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10-Sept-2010 - Finals
Saurav Ghosal (Ind) bt Alan Clyne (Sco)
7/11, 11/4, 11/8, 11/4 (46m)
Ryan Cuskelly (Aus) bt Karim Abdel Gawad (Egy)
14/12, 11/4, 4/11, 11/7 (93mn)
Mohammed Abbas (Egy) bt Joey Barrington (Eng)
11/7, 11/6, 11/2 (40mn)
Nicolas
Mueller (Sui) bt Tom Richards (Eng)
11/6, 11/9, 2/11, 11/6 (40mn)
Mark Krajcsak (Hun) bt Nafiizwan Adnan (Mas)
9/11, 11/9, 7/11, 11/8, 11/8 (109mn)
Borja Golan (Esp) bt
Aaron Frankcomb (Aus)
11/9, 11/2, 11/5 (49mn)
Ali Anwar Reda (Egy) bt Robbie Temple (Eng)
9/11, 10/12, 11/9, 11/0, 1/0 ab. (86mn excl time rest)
Omar Abdel Aziz (Egy) bt Steve Coppinger (Rsa)
11/6, 11/9, 11/6 (55mn)
LL : Richards, Coppinger, Franckomb, Barrington, Gawad, Adnan |
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Qualifying for November's Kuwait Open
takes place at St
George's Hill in Surrey, with 32 players vying for one of
eight available main draw places.
Round one saw some marathon matches, just as in yesterday's
Saudi qualifying, with Alan Clyne, Karim Abdel Gawad,
Nafiizwan Adnan, Steve Coppinger and Robbie Temple all
pulling off significant upsets.
Finals day, well, Steve
on a plane off to Egypt to cover the Women's World, so Fram
typing in, with what could have been the upset of the day,
Robbie Temple leading 2/0 against Ali Anwar Reda.
Unfortunately, accident in the 3rd, 6/6, Robbie got hit on
the chin, managed somehow to win the point, gets 1 hour for
contributed injury, comes back on court after 40mn, but just
cannot compete. Bad luck, Robbie. Really bad luck.
Saurav confirms his good form by beating Mister
FiveSetter Alan Clyne, this time in 4... Abdel
Aziz just three games to oust Steve Coppinger...
Ryan Cuskelly stops the advance of the young Karim
Gawad, I'm told last point on a conduct stroke, whatever
happened there, we don't have the info yet.... But it was
obviously a tough match, 93mn for only 4 games...
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bit of a good three days for Gentleman Abbas, he
qualifies for the Worlds against
Clinton Leeuw in 4 and
yesterday, Campbell just couldn't finish
the game. Today, they must have played on the glass court,
surely, 40mn against
Joey Barrington, that can't happen on a traditional
court.
Sorry for Joey, but truly delighted to see one of the
nicest, fairest players on the circuit making a comeback
after sooooo many injuries.
Talking of injuries, how GREAT it is to see Borja Golan
back??? As you all know, the number 1 Spanish player, that
got up to no10 in the world, got a nasty surgery on his knee
that kept him a year away from the courts. Last week, he
qualified and got to the final of the Irish Open to lose
probably logically against Azlan, but qualified for the
Worlds and again for Kuwait today by beating Aaron
who basically got the short straw.... Still, that's
excellent news for the Tour to have Mr Borja back.
 Nicky
Mueller beats the man in form Tom Richards, in a
short match. As those two luuuuve attacking, I guess there
weren't too many up and down the wall rallies, bless them.
But the Palm of the Day for the "how can I lose as much
energy possible on a squash court" award goes to...
Mark Krajcsak
who eventually gets the better of Nafiizwan Adnan -
call him Wan, like we do - in a nice 109 minutes match, 11/8
in the 5th.
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Thu 9th, Round One:
Saurav Ghosal
(Ind) bt Joe Lee (Eng)
11/7, 11/8, 10/12, 5/11, 11/8 (66m)
Alan Clyne (Sco) bt Chris Ryder (Eng)
7/11, 11/8, 7/11, 11/5, 11/1 (53m)
Karim Abdel Gawad (Egy) bt Simon Rosner (Ger)
8/11, 14/12, 11/7, 5/11, 11/8 (76m)
Ryan Cuskelly (Aus) bt Laurence Delasaux (Eng)
11/9, 11/2, 11/9 (52m)
Nafiizwan Adnan (Mas) bt
Farhan Mehboob (Pak)
11/9, 11/5, 9/11, 9/11, 13/11
(88m)
Mark Krajcsak (Hun) bt Martin Knight (Nzl)
11/6, 11/4, 11/8 (46m)
Tom Richards
(Eng) bt Mathieu Castagnet
(Fra)
8/11, 11/1, 11/4, 8/11,
11/9 (71mn)
Nicolas Mueller (Sui) bt Jan Koukal (Cze)
11/8, 11/8, 5/11, 11/7 (40m)
Aaron Frankcomb (Aus) bt Julien Balbo (Fra)
19/17, 11/5, 11/9 (71m)
Borja Golan (Esp) bt
Julian Illingworth (Usa)
11/9, 11/2,
11/6 (48m)
Mohammed Abbas (Egy) bt Campbell Grayson (Nzl)
11/5, 6/1 rtd (18m)
Joey Barrington (Eng) bt Adrian Waller (Eng)
11/9, 11/8, 11/8
(50m)
Steve Coppinger (Rsa) bt
Stéphane Galifi (Ita)
8/11, 11/8, 11/2, 11/4 (42m)
Omar Abdel Aziz (Egy) bt Amr Swelim (Ita)
11/8, 11/7, 5/11, 11/6 (50m)
Robbie Temple (Eng) bt
Davide Bianchetti (Ita)
11/8, 11/9, 11/4 (52m)
Ali Anwar Reda (Egy) bt Chris Simpson (Eng)
9/11, 11/7, 5/11, 11/8, 12/10
(91m) |
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