Pioneer Junior Cup 2012, Mon
25th, Finals:
One of the biggest events on the European Junior Calendar,
the Pioneer Cup concluded in Cologne today with eight
champions crowned from six different countries.
England claimed two titles, Elize Lazarus winning the
U13 Girls' round robin and Tom Ford winning the
all-English U19 Boys' final, while Finland can also boast
two champions in Miko Aijanen and Emilia Soini
in the B15 and G17 categories.
Belgium's Gilis sisters just missed out on a double as
Tina Gilis took the U15 title but Nele lost out in an
hour-plus five-setter to US top seed Maria Ubina in the G19
final.
Egypt's title came from Mostafa Montaser in the B13
and Diego Elias won the B17 title for Peru.
Next up for many of the competitors is the Dutch Junior
Open in Amsterdam, followed, for the older ones, by the
World Junior Championships in Doha.
Finals:
G13: [1] Elize
Lazarus (Eng) bt [3] Raneem Alaa El Tork (Egy)
11/4, 11/5, 5/11, 8/11, 12/10
B13: [4] Mostafa Montaser (Egy) bt Akasham Rajagopaul
(Can)
11/3, 11/5, 11/9
G15: [1] Tine Gilis (Bel) bt [3] Cindy Merlo (Sui)
12/10, 11/6, 11/7
B15: [2] Miko Aijanen (Fin) bt [Q] Yeyha Essam (Usa)
11/5, 11/8, 11/3
G17: [1] Emilia Soini (Fin) bt [5/8] Lindsey Scott (Usa)
5/11, 11/5, 11/7, 11/1
B17: [3] Diego Elias (Per) bt Youssef Abouelmakarem (Egy)
11/8, 11/9, 11/9
B19: [1] Tom Ford (Eng) bt [3] Richie Fallows (Eng)
11/7, 11/5, 11/6
G19: [1] Maria Elena Ubina (Usa) bt [2] Nele Gilis (Bel)
11/8, 11/9, 9/11, 8/11, 11/8 (62m)
Fiona on the Finals
Outstanding performance by Tom Ford today against
Richie Fallows in the BU19 final. Tom controlled the
ball and court superbly today not allowing Richie into the
match what so ever. Excellent weight of shot, length and
exquisite balls into the front.
Richie was unable to stay in the rallies long enough before
making far too many unforced errors playing straight into
Tom's hands losing 3-0 and became the Pioneer Cup Champion
in his last season as a junior.
Next stop Qatar for the World Open.
Good luck to all the English players going to the Dutch
Open.
Well done to all the organisers running a very smooth and
successful event this year at the Pioneer.
English Update
Fiona Geaves
reports
Finals day here in Cologne. Some excellent performances from
England's top U19 juniors Tom Ford and Richie Fallows
against A Al Tamimi from Qatar and Jan Van Den Herrewegen
from Belgium last Night. Tough 3-0 wins for both of the
English boys with excellent control and awareness to set up
an all English final to drown out the sorrows of England's
loss on penalties to Italy last night.
Elise Lazarus won comfortably to set up her final
pool match cum final against Egypt's Raneem Alaa El Tork.
So to today............
Lazarus won in five over El Tork, looked comfortable at 2-0
up playing super sensible and structured squash. Lapse of
concentration was all El Tork needed to get in the match
which is what happened and the match went into the fifth
game. A tense affair from start to finish, Elise did very
well to control her emotions and played the important points
well to see the match out cutting out the unnecessary
errors.
James Wyatt was the second match of the day, this
also turned into a five setter against another Egyptian Aly
Hesham Tolba. Tolba came out firing after going 2-0 down ad
clawed his way back into the match with some sensational
retrieving. Too many errors again by the English player made
winning so much harder. But again some sensible squash
nearer the end of the match saw James taking 3rd here in
Cologne.
Fiona Geaves
Sun 24th, Semi-Finals:
B13:
[4] Mostafa Montaser (Egy) bt [1] James Wyatt (Eng)
11/5, 11/7, 11/7
Akasham Rajagopaul (Can) bt Aly Hesham Tolba (Egy)
11/9, 7/11, 11/9,
12/14, 11/6
B15:
[Q] Yeyha Essam (Usa) bt [5/8] Hessam El Tokhy (Egy)
8/11, 13/11,
11/9, 5/11, 11/4
[2] Miko Aijanen (Fin) bt Omar Badr (Egy)
11/4, 11/5,
10/12, 11/4
B17:
[3] Diego Elias (Per) bt [1] Claudio Pinto (Por)
11/6,
11/9, 11/6
Youssef Abouelmakarem (Egy) bt [3] Lucas Wirths (Ger)
11/8,
9/11, 11/8, 11/7
B19:
[1] Tom Ford (Eng) bt [5/8] Abdullah Al Tamimi (Qat)
11/8, 11/2, 11/4
[3] Richie Fallows (Eng) bt [2] Jan Van Der Herreweggen
(Ned)
15/13, 11/5, 11/9
G15:
[1] Tine Gilis (Bel) bt [5/8] Elise Romba (Fra)
14/12, 11/5,
11/13, 13/11
[3] Cindy Merlo (Sui) bt [2] Elin Harlow (Wal)
11/8, 11/9,
11/7
G17:
[1] Emilia Soini (Fin) bt Latifa Zakaria (Egy)
11/5 11/3 11/6
[5/8] Lindsey Scott (Usa) bt [3] Jenny Haley (Wal)
12/10, 11/5, 9/11, 9/11
11/6
G19:
[1] Maria Elena Ubina (Usa) bt [4] Caroline Sayegh (Ger)
11/5, 11/1, 11/4
[2] Nele Gilis (Bel) bt [5/8] Tessa Ter Sluis (Ned)
11/5, 11/5,
11/9 |
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