29-Mar, Women's Quarters:
 
Dominique Lloyd-Walter bt Suzie King           11/6, 11/4, 11/5
Deon Saffery bt Rachel Willmott                   7/11, 11/7, 11/6, 11/9
Victoria Lust bt Katherine Quarterman           11/9, 11/2, 11/5
Emma Beddoes bt Isabelle Tweedle              11/3, 11/5, 11/1

Women's seeds safely into semis
Phil Rushworth reports

Susie King started brightly in her match against top seed Dominique Lloyd-Walter, match hitting some excellent forehand kills to take a 5-2 lead in the first. Dominique then stepped up the pace & controlled the rest of the match, stretching Susie out around the court confidently in what turned out to be a comfortable 3-0 victory for the top seed.

“I get myself some good leads in games & then I lose my concentration unfortunately," said Susie, "… frustrating!”

Dominique will play Deon Saffery in this evening's semi-finals after the 3/4 seed beat Rachel Willmott in four games. Rachel was the first to find her rhythm and taking advantage of Deon’s high error count managed to take the first game 11/7. In the second it was nip and tuck all the way until 7-all but Deon played the important points better and closed out the game 11/7.

Deon started to take control using her superior ball control and stung together 7 unanswered points to take the third 11/6. In the final game both players were both taking good leads but were unable to take advantage of their leads and at 9 all Deon was able to close out the match 11/9.

Second seed Emma Beddoes and Victoria Lust - fresh from helping England retain their European U19 team title - will contest the other semi-final after both won in straight games.

Beddoes' win over Isabelle Tweedle was closer than the score line suggests with some good hard fought rallies at the beginning of each game, but Emma was able to hold the ‘T’ for longer periods of time and built the pressure on her opponent.

Towards the end the pressure was to much for Isabelle and Emma was able to take the last game easily.

Lust's first game against Katherine Quarterman was evenly matched up to 6-all when Katherine hit 5 unforced errors to hand the game to Victoria, who controlled the next two games and showed some great finishing from the front to take the match.

29-Mar, Men's Quarters:
Peter Barker bt Tim Vail                      11/5, 11/7, 8/11, 11/4
Steve Meads bt Chris Ryder                 11/9, 2/11, 11/9, 11/8
Joey Barrington bt Ben Ford                 11/5, 11/7, 8/11, 11/4
Jesse Engelbrecht bt Adrian Grant        11/5, 11/6, 14/12

Meadsy & Jesse continue their runs
Phil Rushworth reports

Joey Barrington took control of his match with Ben Ford right from the off putting Ben under plenty of pressure which led to a number of errors from Ben. The first game went quick 11/5. Joey carried on the 2nd where he left off from the first taking the ball early & moving Ben around the court from corner to corner, again forcing Ben into a few unforced errors.

Ben then got himself into the match early in the third & built on his 6/3 lead playing 3 or 4 outright winners on the volley to take the game 11/8. Barrington got his width & length back under control in the 4th & punished Ben’s loose balls to take the final game 11/4.

Chris Ryder shot into a 6/0 lead in the first game against Steve Meads with some fantastic winners that Steve could do nothing about, and then Steve did what he does best! Retrieved everything until he worked his way back to 7all frustrating Chris along the way. The end of game was fiercely contested with both players playing some fantastic squash but it was Steve he got back what looked like a winner from Chris which Steve got his racket underneath & spun up in the air only to hit a millimetre above the tin & as short as possible much to Chris’ amazement.

Chris came out in the 2nd in the same way he did for the first only this time he was going to let Steve claw himself back into it & took the game comfortably 11/2. The 3rd game was nip & took all the way point for point, with both players fighting like mad to get every ball back they started to have many collisions with both players finding it hard to get through to their shots. It was Steve who held his nerve to take the close game 11/9.

The fourth game was much the same as the 3rd up until 7 all but Steve edged away to 10-8 & won the match at the first time of asking. A great game to watch for the spectetors.

Top seed Peter Barker controlled his match against Tim Vail by playing good solid squash absorbmng everything that Tim threw at him, apart from a brief lapse in concentration in the third game and Tim playing some of trademark nicks. The first was close with some long rallies with Tim doing most of the work with peter holding the ‘T’ and volleying strongly.

The second was one way traffic with Peter continuing to build the pressure, playing some superb straight kills helped with a few tins from Tim.

The roles were reversed in the third with Peter struggling to find his length and width with Tim dominating and attacking at will. Tim started the forth as he left off in the third attacking and finding winning shots. However, Peter was able to work his way beck into the game with some superb retrieving causing Tim to find the tin more times than he found the nick and was eble to take out the game easily.

Jesse Engelbrecht looked up for his match against second seed Adrian Grant match right from the start, displaying great shot making abilities mixed with some excellent retrieving to take the first game 11/6, but it was hard fought with Jesse getting a run of points from 6 all.

It was a similar story in the second with Adrian starting to find his rhythm but Jesse still dominated not allowing Adrian to get in front and dominate. Adrian had a short lived lead in the middle of the game but Jesse played some excellent rallies to get the lead back and take the game 11/6.

At the beginning of the third it looked as if Adrian had finally found his length and rhythm and raced into a 7/0 lead thanks to some loose shots from Jesse resulting in strokes. The Jesse started playing some the squash that had won him the first two games bringing it back to 6/8. However Grant was able to pick up a few points to get to game ball but Jesse didn’t give in and got it back to force a tiebreak. Jesse still didn’t give in and saved 3 game balls and took out the game on the second attempt, giving him a well earned victory.