Rachael Grinham Racks Up Title No33 In Calgary by Howard Harding April 7, 2014
- Australia's former world number one Rachael Grinham rolled back the
years to claim her 33rd Women's Squash Association World Tour title in
16 years when she beat Hong Kong's Joey Chan in the final of the
Calgary CFO Consulting Services WSA Women's Squash Week in Calgary in
the Canadian province of Alberta.
Top seed Grinham, who
celebrated her 37th birthday earlier this year, reached the climax of
the WSA Tour 15 event at the Calgary Winter Club without dropping a
game.
Chan, the second seed
who was just nine years old when Grinham began her formidable WSA Tour
title run at the Toulouse Open in March 1998, also made the final after
winning all her matches in straight games.
But Grinham, currently
ranked 16 in the world, was too strong for the 25-year-old world No25 -
needing just 28 minutes to wrap up her 11-8, 11-7, 11-9 title triumph
over Chan.
The win strengthens
Grinham's position as the current WSA player with the second highest
Tour title total - ahead of third-placed compatriot Lisa Camilleri,
with 21, and behind Malaysia's world number one Nicol David who boasts
73 titles.
