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14-Nov, Finals:
[3] Fiona Moverley (Eng) bt[1] Lauren Siddall (Eng)
6/11, 11/8, 11/8, 9/11, 11/7 (29m)
[1] Peter Barker (Eng) bt
[2] Adrian Grant (Eng)
11/9, 11/7, 9/11, 11/9 (78m)
English double in Santiago
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seeds had mixed successes in the Santiago Open "Trofeo Concello de
Santiago" where Fiona Moverley upset favourite Lauren Siddall in the
women's final, but No1 seed Peter Barker prevailed in the men's
climax to produce an English squash double in the international
events at Shopping Center Area Central in Santiago de Compostela,
Spain.
Third seed Moverley, from Hull in East Yorkshire, reached the final
of the women's event after upsetting New Zealand's No2 seed Kylie
Lindsay.
After dropping the first game in the final to experienced Yorkshire
compatriot Lauren Siddall, the 22-year-old battled back to take the
lead - but world No39 Siddall recovered to take the match into a
fifth game decider.
However, Moverley stuck to her task and closed out the match to
record her maiden title triumph on the WISPA Tour.
Peter Barker faced his England team-mate Adrian Grant, the No2 seed,
in the climax of the men's event - in a match that was not only the
fifth Tour meeting of the pair's career, but also their second in a
Tour final this year.
Predictably, the two left-handers from London fought out an
evenly-contested encounter - with only two world ranking positions
separating the pair.
But it was eventually world number nine Barker who clinched victory,
beating Grant in 78 minutes.
The triumph marked the 14th Tour title of Barker's career, his
second of the year - but the Londoner's first in Spain.
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 Santiago
Open 2009
09-14 Nov, Spain, $41k |
Round One
11 Nov |
Quarters
12 Nov |
Semis
13 Nov |
Final
14 Nov |
[1] Peter Barker (Eng)
11/1, 11/5, 5/11, 8/11, 11/0 (56m)
[Q] Stéphane Galifi (Ita) |
[1] Peter Barker
11/9, 11/8, 11/6 (42m)
[8] Davide Bianchetti |
[1] Peter Barker
10/12, 11/2, 11/5, 11/7 (53m)
[3] Stewart Boswell |
[1] Peter Barker
11/9, 11/7, 9/11, 11/9 (78m)
[2] Adrian Grant |
[8] Davide Bianchetti (Ita)
11/5, 9/11, 11/4, 11/9 (44m)
[Q] Alejandro Garbi (Esp) |
[3] Stewart Boswell (Aus)
11/7, 11/5, 7/11, 11/5 (33m)
[Q] Adrian Waller (Eng) |
[3] Stewart Boswell
11/3, 11/5, 11/9 (26m)
[5] Hisham Ashour |
[5] Hisham Ashour (Egy)
10/12, 11/2, 11/3, 11/6 (24m)
[Q] Clinton Leeuw (Rsa) |
Renan Lavigne (Fra)
12/10, 7/11, 2/11, 11/9, 11/7 (57m)
[7] Tom Richards (Eng) |
Renan Lavigne
10/12, 11/8, 11/9, 11/9 (49m)
[4] Olli Tuominen |
Renan Lavigne
11/3, 11/7, 13/11 (30m)
[2] Adrian Grant |
Eric Galvez (Mex)
9/11, 8/11, 11/6, 12/10, 11/5 (53m)
[4] Olli Tuominen (Fin) |
Saurav Ghosal (Ind)
11/5, 11/8, 11/6 (33m)
[6] Miguel Angel Rodriguez (Mex) |
Saurav Ghosal
11/6, 2/11, 5/11, 14/12, 11/5 (59m)
[2] Adrian Grant |
Carlos Cornes Ribidas (Esp)
11/7, 11/7, 11/5 (25m)
[2] Adrian Grant (Eng) |
10-Nov, Qualifying Finals:
Clinton Leeuw (Rsa) bt Jan
Koukal (Cze) 11/7, 8/11, 11/7, 12/10 (38m)
Alejandro Garbi (Esp)
bt Siddarth Suchde (Ind)
12/10, 8/11, 11/8, 11/4 (44m)
Stéphane Galifi (Ita) bt Shaun Le Roux (Eng)
11/4, 11/5, 11/13, 11/8 (52)
Adrian Waller (Eng) bt
Campbell Grayson (Nzl)
11/9, 11/8, 7/11, 11/9 (42m)
 
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 Santiago
Open 2009
09-14 Nov, Spain, $6k |
Round One
11 Nov |
Quarters
12 Nov |
Semis
13 Nov |
Final
14 Nov |
[1] Lauren Siddall (Eng)
12/10, 11/5, 9/11, 11/9 (31m)
[Q] Sina Wall (Ger) |
[1] Lauren Siddall
11/3, 11/5, 11/7 (15m)
[5] Birgit Coufal |
[1] Lauren Siddall
11/9, 11/8, 5/11, 11/6 (40m)
Nicolette Fernandes |
[1] Lauren Siddall
6/11, 11/8, 11/8, 9/11, 11/7 (29m)
[3] Fiona Moverley |
[5] Birgit Coufal (Aut)
11/13, 11/9, 11/9, 11/5 (34m)
[Q] Lisa Aitken (Sco) |
[4] Deon Saffery (Wal)
11/8, 11/9, 11/8 (34m)
Nicolette Fernandes (Guy) |
Nicolette Fernandes
14/12, 11/2, 11/6 (23m)
Laura Pomportes |
[7] Jenna Gates (Eng)
10/12, 11/9, 6/11, 12/10, 11/8 (44m)
Laura Pomportes (Fra) |
Dorletta Lopez Lopez (Esp)
11/2, 11/2, 11/4 (13m)
[6] Josefa Bertilsson (Swe) |
[6] Josefa Bertilsson
11/2, 11/3, 11/2 (10m)
[3] Fiona Moverley |
[3] Fiona Moverley
11/3, 9/11, 11/7, 11/7 (25m)
[2] Kylie Lindsay |
[Q] Milja Dorenbos (Ned)
11/6, 11/1, 9/11, 11/5 (25m)
[3] Fiona Moverley (Eng) |
[Q] Salma Hatem Youssef (Egy)
9/11, 11/1, 11/4, 11/9 (34m)
[8] Coline Aumard (Fra) |
[8] Coline Aumard
11/8, 11/7, 14/12 (27m)
[2] Kylie Lindsay |
Tatiana Damasio Borges (Bra)
11/8, 11/5, 11/6 (25m)
[2] Kylie Lindsay (Nzl) |
All-English finals in Santiago
A pair of English players will contest both finals in the Santiago
Open “Trofeo Concello de Santiago” after Fiona Moverley defied the
seedings to upset second-seeded New Zealander Kylie Lindsay in the
semi-finals of the women's event at Shopping Center Area
Central in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
The 22-year-old from Hull, seeded three, stemmed a second game
fightback by Lindsay to win in 25 minutes - and reach the second
Tour final of her career.
Moverley will face favourite Lauren Siddall, who also took four
games to end Nicolette Fernandes' giant-killing run, beating the
unseeded 26-year-old from Guyana.
Siddall, the 25-year-old world No39 from Pontefract in Yorkshire, is
celebrating the sixth final of her career.
England team-mates Peter Barker and Adrian Grant, both left-handers
from London, will contest the predicted final of the men's $41k
event.
Top seed Barker, ranked nine in the world, battled through to the
19th Tour final of his career by beating third-seeded Australian
Stewart Boswell in 53 minutes.
Second seed Grant had an easier ride against surprise package Renan
Lavigne. The unseeded Frenchman, who celebrated his 35th birthday at
last week's World Open in Kuwait, reached the last four against the
odds after upsetting both fourth seed Olli Tuominen and seventh seed
Tom Richards.
But the semi-final was a match too far for the world No35 from
Marseille as Grant closed out the match in 30 minutes.
The Leeds-based 29-year-old is marking his 24th Tour final and
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12-Nov, Quarters:
Lavigne takes out Tuominen
France's Renan Lavigne
joined the top three seeds in the Santiago Open semi-finals when
he ousted fourth-seeded Finn Olli Tuominen in four games in the
first of the evening's quarter-finals.
Lavigne's semi-final opponent is second seed Adrian Grant,
but the Englishman came close to coming a cropper against Saurav
Ghosal, coming from 2/1 down .
In the top half top seed Peter Barker will meet third seed
Stewart Boswell.
It's a similar story in the women's event, where the three highest
seeds, Lauran Siddall, Kylie Lindsay and Fiona Moverley, are joined
in the semis by unseeded Nicolette Fernandes.
11-Nov, Round One:
Ghosal & Lavigne
Score Santiago Upsets
Unseeded Renan Lavigne and Saurav Ghosal secured surprise places in
the men's quarter-finals of the Squash Santiago Open after beating
seventh seed Tom Richards and sixth seed Miguel Angel Rodriguez,
respectively, in the opening round at Shopping Center Area Central
in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
There were also twin upsets in the women's event, where France's
Laura Pomportes and Nicolette Fernandes, from Guyana, claimed
unexpected places in the last eight.
Frenchman Lavigne, who celebrated his 35th birthday last week at the
World Open in Kuwait, maintained the same form which saw him earn a
surprise first round win in Kuwait City. The world No35 from
Marseille fought back from 1/2 down to defeat Englishman Richards,
ranked four places higher, 12-10, 7-11, 2-11, 11-9, 11-7 in 57
minutes.
Ghosal, the PSA Tour's highest-ranked player from India, subdued his
higher-ranked Colombian opponent in straight games, beating
Rodriguez 11-5, 11-8, 11-6 in 33 minutes.
At the top of the draw, England favourite Peter Barker was taken the
full distance before beating dangerous Stephane Galifi. Londoner
Barker, a quarter-finalist in Kuwait, squandered a two-game lead to
allow the France-based Italian qualifier to draw level – but the
left-hander brushed Galifi aside in a whitewash decider to claim his
11-1, 11-5, 5-11, 8-11, 11-0 victory.
Nicolette Fernandes, the former world No27 who is fighting back to
top form after a two-year layoff following knee surgery, showed her
fighting spirit as she dismissed Deon Saffery, the fourth seed from
Wales, 11-8, 11-9, 11-8.
The 26-year-old now faces fellow outsider Laura Pomportes, the world
No95 from France who twice came from behind to overcome England's
No7 seed Jenna Gates 10-12, 11-9, 6-11, 12-10, 11-8.
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