Frost Denies Schoor In Tenerife
by Howard Harding
19 December 2011 - Jens Schoor suffered his first ever defeat in a PSA World Tour final when he lost to Kristian Frost Olesen in the climax of the XIII Canary Islands Open at Centro Insular de Squash de Tenerife in Santa Cruz on the Spanish island of Tenerife.
The final of the PSA Challenger 5 event was a clash between the event's top two seeds. Olesen, the favourite from Denmark overcame fourth-seeded German Raphael Kandra in straight games in the semi-finals to reach his second Tour final of the year without dropping a game.
Second seed Schoor, the German number two, despatched England's No3 seed Charles Sharpes 3/0 in the other semi to make it to his fifth Tour final.
Since August 2010, the 24-year-old from Koblenz has appeared in finals in Australia, Greece, Spain and Ukraine - with 100% success in all four.
And underdog Schoor survived the first game after a tie-break to open up an early lead in the final.
But Olesen, ranked six places higher, battled back to regain control before finally closing out the match 11-13, 11-6, 11-7, 11-8.
"I am very, very, very happy about my performance today," exclaimed the exuberant Dane after winning the second Tour title of his career.
"I managed to get through in the end. I lost the first game after being up 10-8. That was very disappointing, but I stepped up the court from that point and gave it my best.
"It was close all the way, but I just got a couple of points ahead toward the end of the three last games," added the 22-year-old from Odense.
Schoor is already planning revenge: "All credit to Kristian - he played really well today. Congratulations for winning the tournament - but next time I will try to beat him again.
"He got pretty much all my attacking shots back and made it really hard for me to get any points off him. The same happened in the third. We were even to the end of the game and then Kristian pulled away a couple of points and won the game from there.
"In the fourth I got a little lead of two points in the beginning, but I couldn't keep that lead to the end."
RESULTS: PSA Challenger 5 XIII Canary Islands Open, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Spain
1st round:
[1] Kristian Frost Olesen (DEN) bt [Q] Jamie Mathews (ENG) 11-8, 11-2, 11-9
Matias Tuomi (FIN) bt [Q] David Vidal (ESP) 11-9, 9-11, 11-6, 11-6
Ben Coleman (ENG) bt [Q] James Simpson (ENG) 11-6, 11-0, 11-6
[4] Raphael Kandra (GER) bt Leandro Romiglio Fernandez (ESP) 12-14, 11-6, 11-4, 11-9
[3] Charles Sharpes (ENG) bt Martin Mosnik (SLO) 11-5, 11-8, 11-1
Alejandro Garbi Caro (ESP) bt Alex Ingham (ENG) 11-7, 11-7, 11-5
[Q] Andrew Birks (ENG) bt Rory Pennell (ENG) 11-5, 12-10, 4-11, 11-5
[2] Jens Schoor (GER) bt Jose Facchini (ITA) 11-8, 6-11, 11-2, 11-9
Quarter-finals:
[1] Kristian Frost Olesen (DEN) bt Matias Tuomi (FIN) 11-6, 11-7, 11-4
[4] Raphael Kandra (GER) bt Ben Coleman (ENG) 11-8, 11-5, 8-11, 11-8
[3] Charles Sharpes (ENG) bt Alejandro Garbi Caro (ESP) 14-12, 11-7, 8-11, 11-8
[2] Jens Schoor (GER) bt [Q] Andrew Birks (ENG) 11-3, 11-8, 11-6
Semi-finals:
[1] Kristian Frost Olesen (DEN) bt [4] Raphael Kandra (GER) 11-8, 11-9, 11-5
[2] Jens Schoor (GER) bt [3] Charles Sharpes (ENG) 11-7, 11-6, 11-7
Final:
[1] Kristian Frost Olesen (DEN) bt [2] Jens Schoor (GER) 11-13, 11-6, 11-7, 11-8
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