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 Magdalena
Open 2009
01-05 Apr, Castellon, Spain, $4.5k |
Round One
02 Apr |
Quarters
03 Apr |
Semis
04 Apr |
Final
05 Apr |
[1] Joe Lee (Eng)
3/0
Bart Ravelli (Hol) |
[1] Joe Lee
11/3 11/3 11/8 35m
[LL] Lyall Patterson |
[1] Joe Lee
3/0
[4] Neil Hitchens |
[1] Joe Lee
3/0
[2] Alan Clyne |
[8] Jakob Dirnberger (Aut)
3/1
[LL] Lyall Patterson (Sco) (Esp) |
[4] Neil Hitchens (Eng)
3/2
Peter Creed (Wal) |
[4] Neil Hitchens
11/8 11/6 11/3 46m
Deigo Lopez |
[6] Stefan Brauneis (Aut)
3/2
Deigo Lopez (Esp) |
[Q] Gonzalo Miranda (Esp)
3/1
[5] Kristian Frost Olesen (Den) |
[5] Kristian Frost Olesen
11/6 7/11 3/11 11/9 10/12 75
[3] James Snell |
[3] James Snell
3/2
[2] Alan Clyne |
[Q] Stephen Siveter (Eng)
3/0
[3] James Snell (Eng) |
[Q] Rory Pennell (Eng)
3/0
Carlos Ribadas (Esp) |
[Q] Rory Pennell
11/6 11/4 11/8 23m
[2] Alan Clyne |
[Q] Stuart Crawfird (Sco)
3/0
[2] Alan Clyne (Sco) |
Qualifying Finals:
Stuart Crawford bt Marc
Soriano
11/4 11/1 11/6
Gonzalo Miranda bt Lyall Patterson
10/12, 7/11, 12/10, 11/5, 11/3
Stephen Sivieter bt Andrew Birks
12/10 11/6 11/7
Rory Pennell bt Eduardo Gonzalez
11/9 11/6 11/4
Qualifying First Round:
Stuart Crawford bye
Eduado gonzalez bye
Gonzalo miranda bye
David Blanco/ Marc Soriano 6/11 4/11 8/11
Richard Birks/ Lyall Petterson 13/11 13/11 7/11 9/11 9/11
Andrew Birks/ Alex Garbi 9/11 11/9 11/3 11/7
Javier Suarez/ Stephan Siveter 11/3 11/6 11/3
Rory Pennell/ Dani Pascual 11/6 11/6 11/8
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03-Apr, Quarters
Quarters in Castellon
Carlos Cornes
Ribidas reports
The fourth day of tournament in Castellon was very funny for
the people came to Periesport Club. The players showed their
best squash and the results reveal it.
Joe Lee advanced in draw with a game sure and funny. Lyall
finished his first psa tournament, he played 10 games in the
qualy, and in main draw played against Jakob Dirnberger and
won in 4 games and against Lee he added up 3 games more.
Finally tomorrow Patterson will go back home with 17
gamesunder his belt.
Neil Hitchens finished Spanish hopes by beating local star
Diego Lopez. There were a lot of people on court number 1 of
Periesport Club but people couldn’t see the Diego´s victory
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Neil won his match in three hard games, during the 46
minutes of the match he show better squash and was very
concentrated. On the other hand, Diego also played good
squash showing good shots and playing with a lot of
consistency. This is the personal impression of Diego Lopez,
local star:
“Yesterday I played good against Stefan but the match was
too long, then today Neil was a better player in front me
and I wanted play my balls perfectly to the back of the
court”
“I am improving my basic game and I hope to climb in the
rankings soon.”
In the other match of the day, Danish Kristian Frost played
against Englishman, James Snell who won in five spectacular
games.
“WOW, It was a good game close all the way," said Kristian.
"In the end I really thought I had it, Leading 10/7 in the
fifth – so annoying!!!
"Well, that’s squash, thanks to the organizer. It has been a
good tournament!!!!.
The Danish player goes back to Paris after showing the best
squash that Castellon people can remember.
On the other side was James Snell who played concentrated at
the end and won maybe miraculously.
“”ery Lucky to win, 10-7 down in thth. I didn't feel
comfortable on court today, never relaxed. Thought he played
well, whoever had the better length was winning the points.
Thankfully I had some luck and managed to scrape a win!!”
Finally Alan Clyne, the Scottish number one, beat Rory
Pennell. The Scottish player played with good rhythm, and
the spectators enjoyed the games of both players.
At the end of the match Rory said: “I played reasonably well
this evening. I just wasn’t quite fresh enough to try and
keep up with Alan’s ridiculously fast pace.”
And Alan said: ”I managed to put in a few hard rallies at
the start of the match, after that I fell quite comfortable.
He was dangerous if I gave him anything loose so I tried to
move him to all four corners.”
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01-Apr, Qualifying Finals:
Qualifying complete in Castellon
Carlos Cornes
Ribidas reports
The second day of the qualifying is over, good crowds, good
squash and good players …
The afternoon started with a 5 pm match between seed number
1 Stuart Crawford and the young Spaniard Marc Soriano
… good match for the Scot he played
just 20 minutes of
squash, with an easy win…
"It was a fairly easy match,
he hit some good shots in the third, but, apart from that I
felt in control. I don't mind who I get tomorrow, I've been
playing well recently, so hopefully I can keep it going."
The second match gave us a
good 60 minutes of squash, between Lyall Patterson and
“speddy” Gonzalo Miranda. The Scot dominated the
first two games, but tired in the third and the Argentinean
came back from 9-7 with a couple of tough rallies, and took
the third, and eventually the last two games went easy for
the South American player…
"Bottled it
… again!!! 2-0 and 9-7 up playing quite well and felt in
control, then I got a bit excited and Gonzalo started
playing much better. He's fast, and didn't seem to get tired
at all, and in the fourth and fifth game I became a bit
impatient and made too many errors. It's my first PSA event
and I enjoyed the experience…it's been a GOOD TOURNAMENT!"
"The match started
tough, he took the important points in the important
moments, but after getting the third I felt perfect and in
good shape, and I think that, that was the key of the game,
he played a long match yesterday…. Very happy to get
through… we'll see tomorrow…"
The following match was all-English, with a 3-0 win for
Stephen Siveter over Andrew Birks, with a long first
game of 20 minutes that finally went to Stephen, and the
match was over then .. it's going to be tough to beat
Stephen in this tournament, he is quit fit and has a lot of
experience.
 "The
match started out quite hard, and I was able top lay steady
squash to scrape the first game 12-10. The following games
where easier as my opponent made more mistakes, which took
the pressure off me. I was pleased to win 3-0, and make it
through to the main draw."
Last match of the evening
was at 8 pm…with a win for the Englishman Rory Pennell
over the Spaniard Eduardo Gonzalez. The Spanish dropped a
lot of energy in the first game but finally didn't manage to
take the game, while the next two with an efficient game
went for the English…
"He started
at a very high pace, I just managed to keep in front of him
all the time. I was able to ply my game, I took a Spanish
siesta and felt revitalised and raring to go ... we'll see
tomorrow ..."
"I started ok, good shots, playing my game but not deep
enough, and he was able to take the T, and I wasn't able to
come back… a bit disappointed with my game and with my mind
..."
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31-Mar, Qualifying Round One:
Under way in Castellon
Carlos Cornes
Ribidas reports
The first day of the competition, is over in Castellon, with byes
for the top three seeds in the qualifying competition.
The matches started at 4pm with a local match between Marc Soriano
and David Blanco with the victory of the first in a easy match in 20
minutes, 3/0.
The second match of the afternoon was a great britain match between
Lyall Patterson and the English player Richard Birks, a 65 minute
match that finally the Scot won, coming back from a 2-0 down he took
the fifth 11-8.
Alter this came the local and the home hope, Alex Garbi. The crowd
was awesome in this match between the Spaniard and the Englishman
Andrew Birks. A good match by the English who became the winner with
a 3-1 result finally.
The 7pm match was between the Spaniard Javier Suarez and the English
Stephen Sivieter, with an easy win of the second 3/0 in 20 minutes
The last match of the evening left us with another easy English win
for Rory Pennell against Daniel Dascual, 3/0 in 35 minutes.
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