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So the semis commenced last night with Borja winning the first 3-0 against Stacey although the first 2 games could have gone either way. Then Tarek beat myself, 3-1. I felt I played pretty well but he just played at the top of his game and was attacking everything he could which was so effective on the glass court.

Today was the final of what has been a superbly run tournament. I cannot stress enough how well Dimitris and his team have run the event, with TV there today, a DJ all week to put on some music in between games, a Porsche and BMW behind the court (not for the winner and runners up prizes apparently?!) and looking after the players extremely well.

The final started and people wondered whether Tarek's tough run and his  young age would be a factor in the match. The first few points he looked a bit slower than yesterday (so still rapid!) and Borja found his length and good movement straight away. At 8-4 Tarek produced some fine rallies and winners and brought the score back to 7-8, but a lucky backwall nick for Borja stopped the run, and Borja finished with some great touch drops to finish the first 11-8.

The second started in similar fashion with some long even rallies, not tedious rallying because both players were moving each other out of position, but these 2 players are very good movers so a lot was being retrieved. At 8-3 you sensed Borja was going to close out the game and that would be it, but credit to Tarek he is gutsy as well as talented and he produced some good holds and flicks which Borja didn't read.

Coupled with a few mistakes from Borja, Tarek found himself 10-9 game ball up. You don't win 10 out of 11 PSA finals without a good reason, and Borja showed all his experience to save game ball and push to win the game on a tie-break.

In the third Borja got off to a flyer and you could see Tarek was a bit despondent and tired finding himself 2-0 down when it could have been 1-1. The game finished 11-5, and a deserving Borja picked up another tour title to add to his collection.

Daryl Selby 

DRAW & RESULTS

Hi everybody ,

On my behalf I would like to thank and give all the credits for the success of the tournament to Mr Dimitris Issaris ,the man who worked so hard for this.

In a country that is so difficult to promote squash he did the best he could for this year and I am sure he'll give his best again for the next.

THANK YOU DIMITRIS, all the credits to you.

Also a big thanks to you, the players who represented squash and PSA in the best way. All of you were very helpful with your attitude and presence. I've never seen such a amazing group of personalities and polite players in my entire career so far. I am proud to be a PSA member along with them.

Thank you Anna and all the PSA office and its girls for their great co-operation and also to Steve Cubbins and Daryl for their great support to the tournament and the reports feed.

See you all back next year and on the tour !

Kind regards,

Petros

I would like to draw your attention in order to THANK YOU PETROS TZAMALOUKAS for his support all these years and specially on the last PSA Squash Tournament.

Petros is a value for the squash in Greece because he works hard and gives a lot of personal time. On the last tournament we co-operate very closed in order to get all the details on time and his experience was very very helpful

Once again thank you Petros and looking forward to see you next year in a bigger tournament ...

Dimitris Issaris
Club Olympus Manager

11/9, 11/9, 11/3

 Stacey Ross

11/8, 11/10, 11/5

8/11, 11/3, 11/5, 11/9