04-Mar, Finals:
Krajcsak passes French test
to take Persian Gulf title

Hungary's Mark Krajcsak claimed the PSA $10k Persian Gulf Open title when he beat a second successive French opponent in the final in Kish Island, Iran.

Having faced qualifiers in the opening two rounds, the Hungarian champion, ranked 77 in the world, beat fourth seed Fabien Verseille in the semi-final, then took on the 74th-ranked top-seeded Frenchman Yann Perrin - who had won his all-French semi with fourth seed Joan Lezaud - in the final.

Krajcsak made a good start, taking the first two game 11/6, 11/7, Perrin pulled one back as he took the third 11/5 but Krajcsak closed it out 11/5 in the fourth to collect his 9th PSA career title.

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11-3, 13-11, 11-8 (50m)

[3] Joan Lezaud

11-6, 11-7, 8-11, 11-5 (40m)

[2] Mark Krajcsak

11-4, 15-13, 14-12 (49m)

[2] Mark Krajcsak

29-Feb, Qualifying Finals:

Nathan Lake (Eng) bt Reuben Phillips (Eng)                               11-5, 11-7,1 1-3 (28m)
Alireza (Sanaei (Iri) bt Jonathan Geekie (Sco)                11-5, 4-11, 11-8, 13-11 (42m)
Erfan Jamshidi (Iri) bt Alireza (Sanaei (Iri)                             11-8, 11-3, 12-10 (28m)
Zeyad Tareq Alowaesh (Kuw) bt Aamir Khan (Uae)  11-5,4 -11, 11-6, 7-11, 11-9 (34m)

28-Feb, Qualifying Round One:
 
Nathan Lake (Eng) bt Samiollah Ghased Abadi (Iri)                  11-6, 11-3, 11-7
Reuben Phillips (Eng) bt Amir Hossein Jamalzadeh (Iri)           12-10, 11-2, 11-3
Mohammad Sanaee (Iri) bt Abbas Ali (Pak)                             11-7, 11-5, 11-9
Jonathan Geekie (Sco) bt Masoud Gharehzyaldini (Iri)              11-6, 11-6, 11-9
Alireza (Sanaei (Iri) bt Ali Reza Shameli (Iri)                         15-13, 11-9, 11-9
Erfan Jamshidi (Iri) bt Mohammed Jafari (Iri)                         w/o
Aamir Khan (Uae) bt Sayed Reza Zia Kashani (Iri)          11-8, 7-11, 11-7, 11-6
Zeyad Tareq Alowaesh (Kuw)                                               bye

03-Mar, Semi-finals:
Krajcsak set to face another French test

Having beaten one Frenchman ion the semi-finals of the Persian Gulf Cup in Kish Island, second seeded Hungarian Mark Krajcsak will need to beat another to claim the PSA $10 title.

Krajcsak beat fourth seed Fabien Verseille 11/4, 15/13, 14/12 and now faces top seed Yann Perrin, who beat fellow Frenchman Joan Lezaud, the third seed, in a similar scoreline of 11/3, 13/11, 11/8.

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03-Mar, Semi-final results

02-Mar, Quarter-Finals:
Three French in Kish Island semis

Second seed Mark Krajcsak is on course to reach the final of the Kish Persian Gulf Cup in Iran, but a trio of Frenchmen stand in the Hungarian's way of winning the PSA $10kin its fourth year at Kish Sports Centre at Kish Island.

The 28-year-old from Budapest ended Nathan Lake's run when he beat the English qualifier 11-2, 11-4, 11-7 in 30 minutes.

Krajcsak will now face Fabien Verseille, the fourth seed from Aix-en-Provence who ousted in-form Pakistani Muhammad Saqib Yousaf 11-5, 13-11, 11-5.

Top seed Yann Perrin offers Krajcsak's stiffest resistance in the lower half of the draw. The 2010 champion defeated Kuwait's Ammar Al-Tamimi 11-7, 13-11, 11-9.

The 26-year-old world No74 - ranked just three places higher than the Hungarian number one - will line up against fellow countryman Joan Lezaud in the other semi-final.

Lezaud, 26 and also based in Aix, was taken the full distance before overcoming Finn Matias Tuomi 11-9, 7-11, 11-9, 2-11, 11-6 in 47 minutes.

01-Mar, Round One:
Seeds sail  into Persian Gulf Quarters

There were no upsets in the first round of the PSA $10k Persian Gulf Cup in the Iranian resort of Kish Island - which is apparently the fourth most visited place in the middle east.
 

It was a good day for the France as Yann Perrin, Joan Lezaud and Fabien Verseille all made the quarter-finals, along with Hungary's second seed Mark Krajcsak.

The most notable match though, was that between Englishmen Nathan Lake and Reuben Phillips. Lake, a qualifier, beat Phillips, who got a 'lucky loser' spot, for the second time in two days to reach the last eight.

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