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Texas Open 2005
04-09 April, Dallas, Texas, $50k

Sat 09 Apr, FINAL:

 

Here, though, the factors coming into the final would have seemed to be a very definite uplift in the form of Grinham, looking very steady and effective, set against the strong but slightly more unpredictable Atkinson. However, since she contrived to lose to Grinham from 2/0 and 7/2 in the semi finals of the British Open the Dutchwoman had reasserted herself by beating her 3/0 in the Qatar Classic a month later and won the Tournament of Champions in New York in February.

Perhaps another facet would be Atkinson’s ankle as a twist in the quarters required her to strap it before semi and final.

Grinham would have the benefit of sister Natalie in her corner. The Dutch cast list for the final would be completed by Amsterdam based Nicol David in Atkinson’s corner.

The accompanying amateur event had been completed and the stands at Plaza of the Americas were filled with tournament players and spectators. Overfilled in fact, with so many more hanging over balconies on floors overlooking the ice rink.

The match started with the world champion (now back in her own skirt having solved her laundry issue) having to get close up and personal with all corners of the court while Grinham would push and prod the ball into them. But Atkinson is fit and willing, and confident of her resilience these days. Not only that but hungry for the win that would take her to the rankings peak if she could avoid an early loss in Qatar.

Both though, were clearly a little ragged as their nerves were settling.

Grinham, so often fairly slow to settle into her rhythm was floating. Waif-like, she doesn’t appear to make a sound as she treads the court boards, while Atkinson, simply a bigger frame, moves in a stronger way. Both work very efficiently, though.

Grinham was using her trademark volley boast, starting high on the side wall before drifting into the opposite front corner. Atkinson was stretching, reaching and returning high. Sometimes the roles would be reversed, at others exchanges would be straighter.

The end of the first saw Grinham poised at 8/7 only to tin. Atkinson then found two telling drops to reach her own game ball, only to hit a streaky backhand drop down. Grinham levelled and won the game when her opponent gave away a weak mid court stroke. She was disappointed, Grinham relieved.

In the second the Cairo based Australian was clearly more confident, and aided by an error strewn stretch of play from Atkinson, ran away with the game.

All over? It certainly looked like it but as the third started Grinham had tightened a little. A little anxiety, tension in her play and Atkinson having a final fling. Grinham was making too many errors to end her well constructed rallies, and after 41 minutes the score had been pegged back to 2/1.

Natalie Grinham was in close and earnest conversation with her sister on one side of the court, while Nicol David was probably only needing to tell Atkinson to keep going on the other side.

The momentum had now shifted, and try as she might, Grinham could not wrest it back. Atkinson had never come back from two down to beat Grinham but as she comfortably levelled the match it seemed likely that she would this time.

The players entered the court for the fifth to a big ovation, but the cheers at the end were for the Dutch player as she raised her hands in triumph. Boasts and overheads that the Australian had slotted in earlier were finding the tin too often, and she could only rally rather than find answers in the decider. After 61 minutes she had lost.

Addressing the spectators the winner could only exclaim “That took everything I had to come back. It must have been one of our best matches”. After she had cooled down she added a more considered response to reporters, “Once I lost the first I lost my focus and concentration to go two down quickly, but then I thought I would simply keep it together and see what happens. Things that were working for her earlier began to hit the tin”.

As for the loser, Grinham commented, “Vanessa’s head went down but then she relaxed and started to play well again. She was a different person and I panicked a bit”.

This title has gone from Grinham, a holder vanquished, and as of now Atkinson has the world number one world ranking in her grasp for the first time if she can stay the course at the next event. May 1st probably cannot come soon enough for Vanessa Atkinson, World champion, Texas Open winner and world number one in waiting.

After this very successful event masterminded by Susan Morrison and her Dallas SRA team the event will continue its alternation with the baton being passed back to Houston in 2006 where Atkinson will attempt to defend her Lone Star State open title.

DRAW &
RESULTS

2004/3/2




 

Texas Open 2005
04-09 April, Dallas, Texas, $50k

9/4, 9/5, 9/1 (46m)

Natalie Grinham

Rachael Grinham



 

9/10, 0/9, 9/4,
9/3, 9/2 (61m)



 

Vanessa Atkinson

9/1 9/7 9/2 (35m)

Nicol David

Vanessa Atkinson

Fri 08 Apr, Semi-Finals:

[1] Rachael Grinham (Aus) bt [3] Natalie Grinham (Aus)
        9/4, 9/5, 9/1 (46m)

[2] Vanessa Atkinson (Ned) bt [7] Vicky Botwright (Eng)
       9/3, 9/2, 10/8 (44m)

Toowomba meets Texas
WISPA reports from Dallas

Toowomba is a town in Australia. Not on the tourist circuit, nor famous, but it does have a well known annual flower carnival. It also has two exports, the Toowomba Twosome - Rachael & Natalie Grinham.

Standing at one and three in the world, whether they meet in matches on the WISPA Tour tends to depend upon which half of the draw they are picked into. When they are in opposite sides one or both seem to fall before the final (they haven’t played one since 2001), but when they are on the same side as at the 4th Texas Open being played in Dallas this week they do regularly play off to ensure that the family has one representative on the last day.

The atrium ice rink at the Plaza of the Americas was the bearpit that the sisters would do battle upon. A lightweight contest between two featherweights who feint and move rather than hope to progress based upon weight of shot.

Ordinarily matches shot for the WISPA international TV highlights programmes need the players to wear different coloured clothing to ease recognition. In the case of the Twosome it is absolutely essential as they are so similar!

Rachael (in red) started the stronger, while Natalie (in white) seemed less able to get in front to control rallies. Of course they know each other’s game very well – it is so similar to the other one’s – but they do not regularly train together as they live in different continents; Natalie in the Netherlands, Rachael in Egypt.

They both boast and float the ball more than most players. Taken together it meant a feast of all court play. Front to back, side to side and in tangents around each other they progressed. Rachael picked up more opportunities to finish rallies, sometimes with overhead kills that brought immediate and excited applause. Natalie was making occasional mistakes, perhaps the product of trying even harder to outwit her knowing opponent.

This was enough to take Rachael to the first game, and she maintained her edge in the second and what turned out to be the third and last. Try as she might, Natalie could run and fight but not impose herself on the match. Rachael, the senior by one year at 28 had won and would be in the final.

Interviewed afterwards the winner commented “For Natalie and I it depends who is on their game on the day. We are close and she was just a little off and it tipped the balance my way”

Natalie, meanwhile, ruefully told a reporter “Usually I can rely on my running but today everything was going in for her”.

Vanessa Ends Vicky's Run

For Vanessa Atkinson, her major problem occurred before rather than during her semi final match with Vicky Botwright. Only as she dressed to play did she realise that her remaining skirt was not in her drawer but instead with the rest being laundered. Fortunately for her the problem was solved by a loan from Natalie Grainger, who maintained that she was still waiting to get one back from the last time it happened!

Botwright, surprise winner over fourth seed Nicol David, was also clearly thinking about her skirt. The previous evening she had worn black to match the angry ball bruise on her thigh. For the semis, now that the bruise had turned blue she was able to continue the matching with a navy one!

World champion Atkinson had beaten her English opponent 3/0 in the semis of the Tournament of Champions in February and managed to maintain her record in this match. Botwright, who entered the world top ten at the start of the year and is now up to seven is becoming a serious contender at the age of 27 (two years younger than Atkinson) but found herself chasing the game too much. Atkinson comes forward so strongly these days, and though she may lose her focus for odd games as she did against Linda Elriani in the quarters, tends not to drop whole matches very often.

Here, it was only in the third game that Botwright began to find a rhythm that was in any way unsettling to the Dutchwoman. Until then she had spent too much of the match pinned to the back wall. However, getting forward more than once she turned the ball across the front wall to take a point. Strangely enough though it was a dose of Botwright’s medicine that saw Atkinson caress a similar winner to save the game ball that Botwright had acquired at 8/7 before going on to take the match by pushing her opponent back into a rear corner without room to dig out the ball.

If you had offered Botwright two semis berths this year she would doubtless have enthusiastically accepted, but now she is beginning to hope for even more. “I am disappointed, but she put me under so much pressure that I wasn’t allowed to produce anything except in the do or die third” she said.

Atkinson was complimentary in victory. “I was very scared coming into the game to be honest. She hadn’t dropped a game before today and is playing well”

Now she looks forward to another world one and two battle – with a win taking her very close indeed to the top ranking spot that Grinham holds and she covets. On the last couple of occasions they have played Grinham was not quite at her best but this week has been looking strong again. As Atkinson said “I will really have to dig in to have a chance” Dallas waits to see how deep she needs to go.

  
Quarter-Finals:
 
[1] Rachael Grinham (Aus) bt [8] Jenny Tranfield (Eng)    walkover
[3] Natalie Grinham (Aus) bt [6] Natalie Grainger (USA)   9/3, 9/5, 9/4 (36m)
[7] Vicky Botwright (Eng) bt [4] Nicol David (Mas)           9/1, 9/7, 9/2 (35m)
[2] Vanessa Atkinson (Ned) bt [5] Linda Elriani (Eng)       9/3, 1/9, 9/5, 0/9, 9/6 (51m)

Natalies Take Their Time in Texas

Ask any top sportsman or woman and they will tell you that timing is everything. They may be referring to stroke production but the same holds true for preparation………and in this respect Natalie Grainger’s timing was horribly off.

She had looked less than convincing in reaching the quarter finals of the Texas Open and when she took to the glass court against third seed Natalie Grinham there was little spark. It could be seen in her face and her play. Although she had beaten Grinham 3/0 in the last eight of the Kuwait Open a month ago there seemed no prospect of a repeat this time.

Grinham was clearly adopting a different approach in Dallas than she had I the Gulf. Then she had played defensively allowing her opponent to set the agenda. This time from the moment the racket had been spun she was attacking.

Although Grainger has racketwork to die for, Grinham was relentless in chasing down every ball, hustling for points and generally acting like a wasp that simply will not be dislodged from circling. Too often Grainger dominated a rally only to lose it at the end with a frustrated tin. Too often, Grainger could only turn away wondering why she was not doing better.

The answer emerged after she had been beaten 3/0. “I got carried away last week and simply overtrained. Things were going so well I couldn’t bring myself to stop.” She said. “Mind you, Natalie was playing very well and was very quick” she added. Not tapering off properly had left her a pace too slow.

Rank bad planning.

The lunchtime crowd had only one match to enjoy as their pastramis on rye were munched and lattes sipped as Jenny Tranfield was forced to concede her tie to the older Grinham. She had felt ankle tendon twist in a way that they are not designed to when sent the wrong way during the first game of her match against Shelley Kitchen the night before. While she managed to ignore it and complete the win, morning practice indicated that all was not right – a diagnosis confirmed by the England Squash physio who prescribed a few days rest to settle it down.

So, a sister act in the semi finals; something that has occurred fairly regularly. Indeed in this event two years ago on the same court Natalie registered her first ever win against Rachael. Strangely though, the last time they played a WISPA Tour final was over four years ago, a fact explained away by Natalie, “Whenever we are in different halves of the draw one or both of us stuffs it up!”

Victory for Vicky

As the last vestiges of sun dropped away the second set of semis began with fourth seed Nicol David was pitted against Vicky Botwright who has become a solid top ten member in recent months. Sporting a skirt and large bruised thigh in matching black.

David had been on-form, winning the Kuwait Open last month, but on-form bowed to on-fire. Gone were Botwright tentative strokes, present were an array of tight drops and strong volleys. She raced ahead with David seemingly not settled, took the first and then held her own as David began to strike the ball with a little more conviction and fewer bemused shakes of her head. When Botwright took the second with a straight drop that David couldn’t quite prise away the side wall it still seemed likely that there was going to be more episodes in the series. Yet the fightback never materialised. David was demoralised and Botwright not faltering. Had the Malaysian won the second there was a lingering thought that she may have eased herself back into contention, but the supposition was not tested.

With a whoop Botwright saluted her success and left the court to put ice back on her thigh. David wandered away wondering how it had all gone so wrong. When asked this very question she mustered up the thought that she hadn’t focused properly and fed her opponent too much. “She stopped me playing my game and she didn’t make many errors. She deserved it” David said.

Botwright, still grinning from ear to ear about having made the last four, was reliving the unexpected lack of fightback from her opponent. “ Nicol has a tendency to be down in games then win them. Maybe this court suited me better as it holds a shot” she said before celebrating with a trip to watch the Dallas Mavericks basketball team.

Elriani tests Atkinson

The final match was all that was expected from an on-song Linda Elriani and top performing Vanessa Atkinson. Both blended lobs with volley boasts to stretch their opponent and slotted in telling drives to further their aim of leaving their opponent in a corner. Very little changed throughout the high quality match. Atkinson took the first, but Elriani got away in the second, Atkinson regained the initiative in the third. The crowd simply enjoyed the fare.

However, in the fourth game Elriani was able to dictate the play more, sending the world champion back and dropping well. Taking it she levelled the scores to send the match into a decider. Here positions were reversed as Atkinson piled on the first four points. A moment of concern as she started hobbling was resolved by a little flexing and Atkinson resumed the fight; and battle it really was. Elriani picked up points, wiped her handle on her waistband towel and dragged herself back into contention, but two overhead attacking boasts and an Elriani tin took the second seed to match ball. This was saved, as was the next, but at the third time of asking Atkinson crept home at the end of the rollercoaster ride.

“My lapses of concentration were ridiculous! Linda was so on top when I did and played really good squash” Atkinson said after. Meanwhile Elriani was philosophical in defeat knowing that her solid run of form was continuing. “I’m really enjoying playing again even though I lost today. I just want to keep it going – ideally right through to the Commonwealth Games” she said.

This leaves a semi final menu of a Grinham match up followed by Atkinson against Botwright looking for the chance to play the winner.

Round Two:
Grainger Wins Dallas Cracker

Action in the Texas Open moved onto the WISPA glass court for the round of sixteen – and opened with a lunchtime cracker as sixth seed Natalie Grainger soon found herself two games down to 22 year old Jenny Duncalf, seeded ten.

The arena in the Plaza of The Americas in downtown Dallas was thronged with lunching office workers intrigued with the proceedings. And just as they thought that their home player would be shown the door she seemed to give up on the idea that she could win with a combination of loose play and peppered tins! Instead, Washington based Grainger began to take the pace off the ball, hold shots a little longer and wait until genuine openings appeared.

These tactics brought her back into contention and then ahead 7/3 in the fifth. But Duncalf is nothing if not dogged. She saved a match ball at 8/6 with a dying drive, won the next point and felt that she had a clear stroke to take the game to setting but the referee decided otherwise. This evened up the contested decisions at the end and left Grainger to close out the match.

Duncalf, who had beaten Grainger in five at the Tournament of Champions in February was understandably disconsolate. “I was playing well and hitting the back corners for the first couple of games, but then she slowed it down and I started slashing at the ball,” she explained.

Natalie take two Takes Longer

The match had taken 62 minutes; and next up was another winning Natalie, taking a minute longer to complete the job, in one less games.

Natalie Grinham was cruising against Omneya Abdel Kawy and seemed to have everything under control for a quick finish. But having kept her nose in front for the whole of the third and reached match ball the Egyptian produced one of her outrageous and deadly volley drops off serve to cling on. The next four points were reeled off with a series of kills and she had squeezed the game. She continued to compete strongly in the fourth but Grinham had been stung. Her drops were shorter, lobs longer and she resumed normal control.

“I had taken off well and I thought her head would go down. She really surprised me, she got really steady went for shots and made them” Grinham said before exiting to contemplate the battle of the Natalies that would take place in the quarters.

Tranfield to take on Rachael

Jenny Tranfield joined them in the last eight with a straight games win over Shelley Kitchen. Kiwi athleticism versus English obduracy, with the latter prevailing. Kitchen fought out every rally but just couldn’t dent the defences of the 30 year often enough to discomfort her.

Tranfield’s reward, if that is a fair description, is a meeting with holder and world number one Rachael Grinham who followed her sister into the quarters via a 42 minute victory over a disbelieving Tania Bailey. “She played so well, everything she did was perfect. I played 120% and there was nothing I could do!” Bailey despairingly reported. When the ball was not tight, dying or drifting into a nick it was placed out of reach in a far flung area of the court. Grinham was showing that a spell of slightly indifferent form since she took over the burden of top ranking may now be behind her.

Vicky & Linda add English interest

In the fourth of six ties involving English players Vicky Botwright stifled the challenge of surprise package Samantha Teran who had put out Rebecca Chiu the night before. The Mexican raced to a five point lead in the first but then slowly found that Botwright getting to grips with her driving and general lack of interest in going short, and became able to stretch her a little too far in response. The only black spot of her day was that which angrily formed on her thigh after being struck by the ball as she moved across Teran a smidgen too early!

Botwright will face fourth seed Nicol David, victor over Isabelle Stoehr. The French miss was getting on court for the first time having had a walkover in the first round, but being fresh could only earn her a game as Duracell David powered on. Only in the second game did she falter, not keeping the ball deep enough and allowing Stoehr too much room at the front.

As dusk descended and offices emptied, departing staff were able to enjoy the spectacle of Linda Elriani driving full bore into the quarters. Her year of consistent quality brought about by a sustained spell of fitness shows no sign of letting up and Madeline Perry, no slouch herself at present, was left flailing. Deep driving, feathered floating; she was unstoppable, and her comment “I felt really good out there” was nothing more than stating the obvious.

Atkinson tested by Waters

The final match up of the evening seemed likely to be a straightforward passage for world champion Vanessa Atkinson despite her opponent being the burgeoning WISPA Tour talent that is Alison Waters. WISPA Player and Young Player of the Year in competition. While Atkinson settled into her game from the start Waters was not overawed and as she started to slot overheads home across court and generally pressure the Dutchwoman she took both to second and third game to become improbably ahead. However, Atkinson then started to become more difficult to shift from the tee, volleying early and deeply, and causing the Waters error ratio to rise as she was stretching further and further to lay string on ball.

Atkinson had regrouped and both the fourth and fifth fell to her without undue alarm – though the episode as a whole had been a trifle worrisome. “Alison was on fire. I felt pretty good but sometimes being the underdog brings out the best in an opponent. She was volleying so well that I had to keep her back and get better width to pull through” the winner said.

Atkinson now plays Elriani and must hope that she is not caught in the teeth of yet another volleying storm.

05-Apr, Round One, bottom half:
Dallas Delight for
Teran and Waters

After missing a year on the WISPA Tour following a bad knee injury, the extensive training that Mexican Samantha Teran got under her belt in the last six months finally began to pay dividends as she outlasted sixteenth seed Rebecca Chiu in their first round tie in the Texas Open.

The 23 year old from Mexico City has a game which contrasts sharply with her opponent from Hong Kong. Hitting the ball heavily, straight and deep, she slowly induced mistakes from Chiu, who has a fine all round game but found an opponent all too willing to chase down drops and everything else she was hit with. In the fifth game of the 73 minute clash Teran, currently ranked 37, came out stronger and was cheered home by her parents who had picked a fortuitous occasion to travel north of the border to watch her.

“After I saw the draw I thought I had a chance and was excited”, the winner excitedly said! “I thought that if we would play five games I would have an advantage because I am fit now” she continued.

Teran now plays seventh seed Vicky Botwright who had a more straightforward win over Pakistan's Carla Khan to book a place on the glass court in the Atrium of Plaza of the Americas in Dallas tomorrow. Indeed, this match was similar to others which followed where the loser couldn't do enough to discombobulate her opponent but could keep her on court working hard before being finished off. Khan lasted 37 minutes but couldn't win a game. Shortly afterwards Canadian Runa Reta’s neat precise squash forced twelfth seed Madeline Perry just beyond forty minutes for her 3/0 win.

Isabelle Stoehr did have a very much easier day though; finding out during the morning that her opponent Fiona Geaves had been forced to withdraw having woken up to find that the right Achilles tendon strained in practice the previous day had tightened further overnight. She will play fourth seed Nicol David whose all court coverage drained the life out of Latasha Khan.

Fifth seed Linda Elriani was another player who was delayed rather than derailed. Stephanie Brind started strongly, volleying well while Elriani was struggling to find her length. Brind served for the first game twice at 9/8 but could convert neither as Elriani had by now began to settle. When the first was gone then she began to struggle against the better length and high balls that Elriani served up.

The last two matches of the day featured Dutch seeds against English opposition. Annelize Naude would have expected a struggle against in form Alison Waters and ended in a tussle from which she emerged second best. Having won the first she raced to 7/2 up in the second before being pegged back. When this was lost after a claim for a traffic stroke which would have taken the orange spiky haired player to game ball her confidence ebbed away as Waters began to take control.

“I lost focus at 7/2 up and that probably gave Alison the confidence to get back in” Naude ruefully commented afterwards.

England Squash coach Paul Carter had nursed Waters home but couldn't repeat the success when Dominique Lloyd Walter was pitted against World Open champion Vanessa Atkinson straight after. However, she certainly played steadily, applied herself and was able to pinch the third game.

Atkinson was complimentary about her opponent afterwards “She’s drawn me so many times it’s untrue, and again today even when she went two down her head didn’t go down. You have to credit her mental strength.”

Tomorrow Carter will be trying once again to undo Atkinson when Waters plays her in the last sixteen.

04-Apr, Round one, top half:
Seeds Start Well In Dallas
WISPA reports

As the WISPA glass court was completing its build in the atrium of the Plaza of the Americas the first day of the initial round of the Texas Open was taking place at the nearby Downtown Dallas YMCA.

It was a good day at their court office for the seeds but an unsuccessful southern incursion for the trio of competing Canadians.

Matches were competitive and much enjoyed by an animated crowd who began looking at the possibility of an upset as Sharon Wee demonstrated again how her Belgian training is improving her all round game. Jenny Tranfield, seeded eight and celebrating her return to the England team for the forthcoming European Team Championships, was battling but outgunned in the first. Then she tightened up and despite a heavy fall managed to wrest control to book a last 16 slot on the glass. She matches up against Shelley Kitchen who had a more comfortable time against Dane Line Hansen.

The other top quarter tie will feature top seed Rachael Grinham who wasted little time dispatching Alana Miller back to Canada, and Tania Bailey who could call on a little too much variety for Laura Lengthorn.

Another Canadian, Katie Patrick, had been voted on to the WISPA Board the day before and found fellow member Natalie Grinham less welcoming on court. Sheer speed and delightful deception for 20 minutes and it was job done for the Netherlands based Australian.

Her last sixteen opponent turned out to be ninth seed Omneya Abdel Kawy, but only after a stirring encounter with Pamela Nimmo. The Scot got close in the first and then reached 8/2 in the second on a tide of effective play set against Egyptian errors. But then the world junior champion lowered her error ratio amidst her wonderfully wristy play that is so difficult to counter. She levelled having saved two game balls before a drop played across the front only to die in the opposite nick clinched the game.

Nimmo was frustrated but managed to channel it into aggressive play in the third and was palpably relieved to take it at the first opportunity, perhaps fearing another comeback. But this was as far as Nimmo could take her opponent. Now the ball was dancing to the Egyptian’s tune and she ran away with the fourth.

The third of the Canadian musketeers at least left with a game; nearly two.

Melanie Jans Burke took until the second game to win her first point – accompanied by a whoop and arms held high – but then visibly relaxed and began to compete more strongly. While Natalie Grainger stepped on the gas again to take the third, the resident pro at the Vancouver Lawn Tennis, Badminton and Squash Club was still moving smoothly and stood at 8/7 in the fourth before Grainger finally reeled her in.

The last tie of the top half saw Jenny Duncalf book her place in the next round, but she was another who found that there is great depth in the WISPA draws these days. Australian Amelia Pittock, ranked 29, was battling hard against the English team member. She got to 7/3 up in the first and although she lost that one and the two following games it was a stern test for Duncalf

Only one more Canadian left to try her luck tomorrow in the bottom half – Runa Reta will up against Madeline Perry.

PREVIEW:
Top Women Depart For Dallas

The fourth running of the Texas Open features a 32 draw with all the world's top players competing for the $50k prize fund in what is fast becoming one of the most important events on the WISPA world tour.

Alternating between Houston and Dallas, this year's event is to be staged at Dallas's spectacular Plaza of the Americas.

Defending champion and world number one Rachael Grinham is top seed, and if it goes to seeding will meet sister Natalie in and all-Aussie semi-final. In the bottom half Dutch world champion Vanessa Atkinson is seeded to meet Malaysia's world no four Nicol David in the semi-finals.

  Texas Open Finals:

  2004:  [2] Rachael Grinham (Aus) bt [1] Cassie Jackman (Eng)  9/5, 9/5, 9/5 (53m)
  2003:  [1] Carol Owens (Nzl) bt [2] Natalie Pohrer (Usa) 9/10, 9/1, 9/4, 9/1
  2002:  [1] Carol Owens (Nzl) bt [2] Cassie Campion (Eng)   8/10, 9/4, 6/9, 9/4, 9/3  (69m)