SDA Tompkins Invitational Update: Top Two Seeds Mudge/Gould and Price/Leach Motor Into Monday Night Final
by Rob Dinerman
Dateline February 11th --- Defending champions Damien Mudge and Ben Gould will face second seeds Paul Price and Clive Leach this evening at the Racquet Club Of Philadelphia in the final round of the $20,000 Tompkins Invitational. Neither team has dropped a game so far, with Mudge and Gould defeating John Russell and John White (five-game Friday-night quarterfinal victors over Jonny Smith and Greg Park),15-13, 7 and 10 in the first Sunday-afternoon semifinal, following which Price and Leach, winners of the SDA January tour stops in Boston and Greenwich, subdued Imran Khan and Greg McArthur by a 15-9,12 and 4 tally. Tonight's final will be a rubber match of sorts, with Mudge and Gould having defeated Price and Leach in the St. Louis final and a Big Apple Open semi, only to then fall to them twice last month, letting a third-game match-ball get away in a five-game Boston final-round loss. Two weeks later, Price and Leach again prevailed, this time in four games, when the two teams met in the semifinals in Greenwich.
COMPLETE DRAW
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