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Harrow Sports
Charlottesville Open
2017
20-23 Sep, Charlottesville, USA, $25k |
23-Sep, Final:
Mueller victorious in Virginia
Top seed Nicolas Mueller came from a game down to beat
Greg Lobban in the final in Virginia, to collect his biggest PSA
title to date.
 22-Sep,
Semis:
Mueller & Lobban through to final
Top seed Nicolas Mueller will meet
fifth seed Greg Lobban in the final in Charlottesville after two
tough semi-final wins.
Mueller beat Mohamed Reda in three games that all went to extra
points, while Lobban came from one-two down to bear Mazen
Hesham.
21-Sep, Quarters:
Lobban
and Hesham set up surprise semi
The Harrow Charlottesville Open licked off at the Boar's
Head Squash Centre with all eight seeds winning their first
round matches, but there were two upsets in the quarter-finals.
Greg Lobban won a five game thriller against Abdulla Al
Tamimi, and the sixth seeded Scot now meets Mazen Hesham,
the eighth seeded Egyptian who took out second seed Adrian
Waller in straight games.
No upsets in the top half as Nicolas Mueller and
Mohamed Reda moved into the semi-finals with wins over Lucas
Serme and Arturo Salazar.
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Charlottesville Open
2017
20-23 Sep, Charlottesville, USA, $25k |
Round One
20 Sep |
Quarters
21 Sep |
Semis
22 Sep |
Final
23 Sep |
[1] Nicolas Mueller (Sui)
11/8, 11/6, 11/9 (31m)
Jens Schoor (Ger) |
[1] Nicolas Mueller
11/8, 11/8, 11/3 (35m)
[5] Lucas Serme |
[1] Nicolas Mueller
12/10, 12/10, 18/16 (52m)
[4] Mohamed Reda |
[1] Nicolas Mueller
6/11, 11/5, 11/7, 11/5 (47m)
[6] Greg Lobban |
[5] Lucas Serme (Fra)
8/11, 11/6, 15/13. 11/6 (52m)
Jaymie Haycocks (Eng) |
[7] Arturo Salazar (Mex)
11/3, 11/5, 11/3 (26m)
Chris Hanson (Usa) |
[7] Arturo Salazar
11/3, 11/8, 8/11, 11/8 (48m)
[4] Mohamed Reda |
[4] Mohamed Reda (Egy)
11/3, 11/8, 11/7
Adam Murrills (Eng) |
Chris Gordon (Usa)
11/9, 11/6, 11/9
[3] Abdulla Al Tamimi (Qat) |
[3] Abdulla Al Tamimi
11/6, 11/9, 8/11, 4/11, 11/8 (66m)
[6] Greg Lobban |
[6] Greg Lobban 11/4, 8/11, 8/11, 12/10,
11/8 (71m)
[8] Mazen Hesham |
Piedro Schweertman (Ned)
11/8, 11/5, 11/5
[6] Greg Lobban (Sco) |
[wc] Timothy Lasusa (Usa)
114/, 11/8, 11/9
[8] Mazen Hesham (Egy) |
[8] Mazen Hesham
11/6, 11/6, 11/8 (34m)
[2] Adrian Waller |
Alister Walker (Bot)
12/14, 12/10, 12/10, 11/5
[2] Adrian Waller (Eng) |
No
clear favourites for 2017 edition
Preview by Alister Walker
The Harrow Charlottesville Open has cemented itself as
one of the important early fixtures on the PSA world tour. It is
an event that has now developed a devoted following and loyalty
from the PSA players who continue to return to Charlottesville
as repeat visitors.
As in the previous editions of the
Charlottesville Open—and, indeed, increasingly throughout PSA
events—there is no clear favourite for this year’s tournament.
Nicolas Mueller heads the seeding and there is no doubt
he has the talent to win the event and push his ranking up on
the PSA world rankings from his current position of
#30--especially if he can keep himself injury free for the next
10 months. He will need to be on top form mentally and
physically to win the event and achieve his season goals. But
make no mistake, he certainly has all the tools to do so.
If things go to seeding Mueller will meet the exceptionally
quick and talented world #40 from Qatar, Abdulla Al Tamimi.
Tamimi will be one to watch this season, as he has been working
and pushing with all diligence in an extended off season of
training with his current coach and former World Champion,
Rodney Martin. Martin’s stable of players must currently be the
most successful in North America with Ryan Cuskelly, Chris
Binnie, 2017 US National Champion Chris Hanson (also in the
draw) and Abdulla.
With his calypso performances, Abdulla is one of the players who
could glide through to the title or go crashing out well early
to a terrible performance or go on to win the event. It must be
said that Qatari has showed signs of the consistency and
maturity his performances will need to become less erratic.
Adrian Waller, the tournament’s #2 seed, has probably
been the most consistent player in the draw over the last couple
of years. We can expect a steady and accurate level of play from
the first point of his tournament to his last. Again, the final
point of the event could involve Adrian winning the title if he
has a good week.
Mazen Hesham, aka “The Black Falcon,” will really fancy
winning this event and has a strong chance to do so even though
not highly seeded. Hungry and back from a long injury break,
Hesham is widely considered to be the tour’s most exciting
player to watch and surely will be a crowd a favorite after his
first round.
Greg Lobban is also back from an injury break and has
added a few titles to his list over the summer in the southern
hemisphere. He will definitely be a contender in a very
interesting bottom half of the tournament.
In 2014 Frenchman Lucas Serme came through qualifying
reach the final but has not reached the same form since. On
several other occasions, he has looked ready to make a
breakthrough to emulate countrymen Gregoire Marche and Mattheiu
Castagnet. With his prior success in Charlottesville, this event
might just be his time to shine.
At the risk of getting slightly redundant, I will stress once
again that all of the players will be capable of going deep into
the draw and even lifting the trophy at the end of the weekend.
In an early-season tourney such as this, after the opportunity
to put in a large volume of quality work, players can return to
the tour transformed and ready to win titles that may not have
been within their physical and mental grasp previously.
Anything can happen at Charlottesville and the upcoming season.
Let’s hope that it does!
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