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MARYLAND
CLUB OPEN 2012
11-14 Oct, Baltimore, $20k |
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14-Oct,
Final:
[1] Mudge/Gould 3-2 [2] Mathur/Badan
12-15, 15-13, 15-13, 12-15, 15-7
Mudge
And Gould Capture Maryland Club Open
by Rob Dinerman
Picking up where they left off at the end of last season, top seeds
Damien Mudge and Ben Gould christened the brand-new Squash
Doubles Association (SDA) tour in style by charging to victory this
past weekend in the eighth annual $20,000 Maryland Club Open.
In so doing, Mudge and Gould won their 20th tournament in 21
attempts over the last two-plus seasons, though the stern
challenge they received in a sensational route-going (12-15 15-13
15-13 12-15 15-7) Sunday morning final from second seeds Manek
Mathur and Yvain Badan constitutes a compelling augury of a
rivalry that well may define the entire upcoming 2012-13 campaign.
All but one of the seven main-draw matches either went to at least a
fourth game or had one or more 15-14 tallies, which was also the
case in five of the seven matches contested in the qualifying
flights.
John Russell and former PSA No. 1 John White saved a
third-game triple-match-point-against them and wound up pushing
Preston Quick and Matt Jenson to 13-all in the fifth, before
White unaccountably slipped to the floor in the middle of the
ensuing exchange, costing his team that point and giving his
opponents the momentum to close the match out immediately
thereafter.
Quick and Jenson then played Mudge and Gould
(first-round 3-0 winners over 2009 U. S. Pro champs Chris Walker
and Mark Chaloner much closer in the semis than the 15-9, 12 and
11 score implies, staying even through the first half of each game
before the eventual champs made quick three- and four-point runs and
closed each game from there.
Meanwhile, in the bottom half, former mid-2000’s Trinity College
teammates Mathur and Badan first out-lasted qualifiers
James Stout and Greg McArthur in four and then faced the newly
formed pairing of Clive Leach and Paul Price, quarterfinal
15-13 in the fifth winners over Greg Park and Jonny Smith, in
a semifinal match marked by contentious battling on the left wall,
where Mathur noticeably out-played his veteran counterpart Price,
who unsuccessfully tried everything he could to throw Mathur off his
game, including refusing to shake hands with him at the match’s
conclusion.
The outcome of the ensuing final appeared in severe doubt until the
outset of the fifth game, during which Mudge and Gould, who had
tinned more than usual in the early part of the match, each
contributed front-side nicks to the 7-1 early margin that
effectively sealed the eventual 15-7 outcome.
13-Oct - Semis
[1] Mudge/Gould 3-0 Quick/Jenson
15-9, 15-12, 15-11
[2] Mathur/Badan 3-1 Price/Leach
15-9, 15-12, 11-15, 15-8 |
Top seeds Mudge and
Gould only needed three games to get to the final
against Quick/Jenson, while it took a bit longer for Mathur/Badan,
the other favorites, against Price/Leach.
12-Oct - Quarters
Busy day this Friday for the qualifiers John White and
John Russell, who played twice to finally bow to third seeds Preston Quick
&
Matt Jenson in a very hard fought 5 setter.
The three other encounters also went according to seedings, which
means that we have top seeds Damien Mudge/Ben Gould to play
[3] Preston Quick/Matt Jenson at 6pm on Saturday, while [4]
Paul Price/ Clive Leach will face the Manek Mathur/Yvain
Badan pair at 7pm at the Maryland Club... |
MARYLAND
CLUB OPEN
2012
11-14 Oct, Baltimore,
$20k |
Quarters
12-Oct |
Semis
13-Oct |
Final
14-Oct |
[1] Damien Mudge [Aus]
Ben Gould [AUS]
3/0
[6] Chris Walker [Eng]
Mark Chaloner [Eng] |
[1] Damien Mudge
Ben Gould
3/0
[3] Preston Quick
Matt Jenson |
[1] Damien Mudge
Ben Gould
12-15, 15-13, 15-13, 12-15, 15-4
[2] Manek Mathur
Yvain Badan |
[Q2] John Russel
John White
3/2
[3] Preston Quick [Usa]
Matt Jenson [Usa] |
[4] Paul Price [Aus]
Clive Leach [Eng]
3/2
Jonny Smith [Eng]
Greg Park [Usa] |
[4] Paul Price
Clive Leach
3/1
[2] Manek Mathur
Yvain Badan |
[Q1] Greg McArthur
James Stout
3/1
[2] Manek Mathur [Ind]
Yvain Badan [Swi] |
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Semis |
Finals |
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[1]
Raj Nanda (Aus)
Bernardo Samper (Col)
15/12, 15/8, 15/13
Jacques Swanepoel (Rsa)
Shaun Johnstone (Zim) |
[1]
Raj Nanda
Bernardo Samper
3/2
[Q1]
Greg
McArthur
James Stout |
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Greg
McArthur (Sco)
James Stout (Ber)
15/14, 15/8, 15/12, 15/12
[3]
Imran Khan (Pak)
Carl Baglio (Can) |
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[4]
John Russel (Eng)
John White (Sco)
15/5, 15/9, 15/9
Brett Erasmus (Rsa)
Ned Marks (Usa) |
[Q2]
[4]
John Russel
John White3/0
[2]
Dan Roberts
Graham Bassett |
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Francis Johnson
(Usa)
Doug Hoffberger (Usa)
3/?
Adam Bews
(Sco)
Travis Judsen (Usa) |
Francis Johnson
Doug Hoffberger
13/15, 15/4, 15/11, 15/10
[2]
Dan Roberts (Irl)
Graham Bassett (Usa) |
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SDA Tour Ready To Roll In Baltimore
By Rob Dinerman
The brand-new Squash Doubles Association (SDA) will launch
its inaugural 2012-13 Tour in style with all the big guns heading to
Baltimore on the second weekend of October for the $20,000 Maryland
Club Open.
Two-time defending champions Damien Mudge and Ben Gould will
be the top seeds, with Manek Mathur and Yvain Badan, who gave
Mudge/Gould their only defeat last season en route to winning the
Briggs Cup, seeded second.
Mudge and Gould will face 2009 U. S. Pro champions Mark Chaloner
and Chris Walker in their opening match, with the victor to then
face whoever wins between last season’s Cambridge Club Doubles
finalists Preston Quick and Matt Jenson and whichever team
survives a ferocious qualifying bracket led by the John
Russell/John White and Dan Roberts/Graham Bassett
tandems.
In the bottom half of the eight-team main draw, first-time partners
Paul Price and Clive Leach will take on Jonny Smith and Greg
Park, while former mid-2000′s Trinity College teammates
Mathur and Badan will take on whoever emerges from the other
qualifying playoff, in which Raj Nanda and Bernardo Samper
are the highest-seeded duo.
This tournament will kick off an active autumn slate, with tour
stops to follow in St. Louis, New York and Toronto heading into
Thanksgiving.
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