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19-Sep, Round One
Women’s First Round
Today at the club in Zinacantapec we saw the start of the
women’s first round in the main draw.
Siyoli Waters bt Diana Garcia 11/7, 11/8, 11/6
 No
4 seed Siyoli Waters from South Africa started the proceedings
by winning the first match against home girl Diana Garcia, who
had done extremely well to get to this stage, and she put up an
extremely brave performance in each game before Siyoli managed
to finish each one off in good style to win in three.
Coline Aumard bt Liu Tsz-Ling 4/11, 9/11, 11/5, 11/7,
11/8
 This
match started appearing to be quite comfortable for Tsz-Ling,
taking the first game fairly comfortably 11/4, and the second
game 11/9 despite Coline saving two game points.
From this point Coline seized the initiative, taking the third
comfortably 11/5, then going on to recover brilliantly to take
the next two games 11/7 and 11/8 to win the match 3 games to 2.
Tesni Evans bt Nayelly Hernandez 11/5, 11/3, 11/4
 Wild
card entrant Nayelly did her utmost best against young Tesni
from Wales, but unfortunately was just not enough as Tesni took
the three games in comfortable fashion.
Yathreb Adel bt Kylie Lindsay (NZL) 11/2, 11/8, 11/2
 The
17 year old Egyptian Yathreb took control of this match from the
very beginning, taking the first game 11/2, the second 11/8
after a strong fightback by Kylie, and then the third quite
comfortably 11/2 in the third.
Victoria Lust bt Mariam Metwally11/3, 11/6, 17/15
 The
second half of the 17 year old Egyptian duo did not fare so
well, as Vicky took control of the first game from 0/3 down to
win 11/3, and carried on in the same vein to take the second
11/6.
Vicky, who I have just found out has recently moved to Canada to
try and improve her game, seemed to ease off in the third as
Mariam started to take control and eased into a 10/8 game ball
lead, but ‘Lusty’ showed her usual fighting spirit and took the
game eventually 17/15 , a fine win for the English girl.
Joey Chan bt Kristen Lange 12/10, 7/11, 11/9, 11/5
 Joey
took an early 6/1 lead in the first game but Kristen fought back
strongly to take game ball at 10/9, however Joey managed to hold
out to take the game 12/10.
In an up and down second game Kristen led 6/2, Joey fought back
to lead 7/6, but Kristen served out to win 11/7. From then on
Joey slowly took control to take the next two games 11/9 and
11/5 as Kristen seemed to lose her stamina.
Olga Ertlova bt Donna Urquhart 11/1, 12/10, 11/5
 The
final match of the afternoon session in the women’s tournament
brought the first major upset of the day, as Olga overcame the
No 1 seed and firm favourite of the tournament in three
excellent games of squash, simply overpowering Donna in the
first game to win in just two hands 11/1.
Donna, obviously playing below par because of her recent injury
lay-off, recovered slightly in the second to get to game ball
first at 10/8 but Olga simply played magnificently to serve out
to win the game 12/10. From then on Donna was obviously feeling
the strain as Olga, playing some fantastic squash, took the
third game 11/5 for what she described as a fabulous victory.
Samantha Teran bt Megan Craig 11/8, 11/3, 11/7
 Later
in the evening on the Glass Court the women’s first round was
completed when the home crowd favourite Samantha took the first
game eventually 11/8, after a real tough battle against young
Megan.
Samantha then went on to take the second comfortably 11/3, to
the delight of the home fans, and took the third 11/7 despite a
very gutsy performance from Megan.
Men’s First Round
Marwan El Shorbagy bt Tom Richards 11/5, 11/2, 11/4
Alfredo Avila bt Adrian Waller 8/11, 11/7, 11/7, 16/14
Gregoire Marche bt Henrik Mustonen 11/13, 11/6, 6/11, 11/4, 11/2
Being played at the same time as the women’s matches at the
Zinacantepec Club, I was unfortunately unable to see any of
these men’s matches, but the first match was obviously a quite
comfortable win for Marwan, but judging by the noise from the
small but partisan crowd the win for the young Mexican Alfredo
was obviously the match of the day for the local fans, and
another fine victory for this young player.
The third match was plainly a very up and down battle in which
Greg appeared to slowly grind down the opposition shown by
Henrik, who had used up an awful lot of energy in the qualifying
rounds.
The men’s first round matches then moved on to the Glass Court
showground in the middle of Toluca, which were fortunately not
affected by a tropical thunderstorm just before the matches were
due to start.
Gregory Gaultier bt Matthew Karwalski 11/5, 11/3, 11/3
 There
cannot be any words left to describe the majestic squash of
Gregory Gaultier, as he just simply overpowered the brave
opposition shown by qualifier Matthew, who did play some great
squash but was just not up to the level of the French master.
Miguel Angel Rodriguez bt Stephen Coppinger 11/3, 11/7, 11/8
 In
spite of there only being one place between these two players in
the world rankings, Stephen just did not have the resilience to
stop the powerful display of great squash shown by the Columbian
Miguel, who overcame the brilliant opposition eventually towin
in three games.
Omar Mossad bt Nicolas Mueller 11/9, 9/11, 11/8, 11/6
 The
surprise of last year’s tournament Omar, who came from
qualifying to reach the final, has had a fantastic year since
then, climbing to #11in the world rankings, had a very tough
battle here today against Nicolas, ranked at # 21, but
eventually managed to overcome his very tough opponent to win in
four games after 50 minutes of wonderful squash.
Borja Golan bt Karim Ali Fathi 11/5, 12/10, 11/6
 Getting
late into the night here in the centre of Toluca, No 3 seed
Borja finally overcame the strong opposition shown by the young
Egyptian Karim, with both players showing some beautiful touches
at times, but Borja managed to show his experience of coming
back from a long injury break to get to #9 in the world
rankings, but Karim will not be too long before rising to the
top of the rankings.
Mohamed El Shorbagy bt Cesar Salazar 11/5, 11/5, 11/7
 Despite
a large Mexican crowd staying late into the night to cheer on
Cesar the wild card entrant, Mohamed managed to quieten the
crowd with an awesome display of power and racquet skills,
showing why he is the no2 seed here, and #6 in the world
rankings, by winning in three straight games, even though Cesar
showed great fighting capabilities.
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