Walker, Razik Head Field In Hyder Quarterfinals Tonight
By Rob Dinerman for DailySquashReport.com
Dateline May 13th - New York City-Top two seeds Alister Walker and defending champion Shahier Razik each swept to 3-0 victories in their respective round of 16 matches Thursday evening and will head into this weekend’s action as solid favorites to meet Sunday afternoon in the final of the 43rd Quentin Hyder Invitational, the longest continuously running annual international-ball tournament in the United States. Walker, who subdued the exciting Trinity-bound teenage Egyptian Mohamed El-Sherbini, will face Tom Pashley (whose straight-set victim, ISDA doubles star Clive Leach, was understandably still fatigued by his five-game final-round loss with partner John Russell to Ben Gould and Damien Mudge in the biennial World Doubles in Toronto Monday night), while Razik, who overwhelmed Richard Chin, will now meet Bernardo Samper, winner of the only five-game match in the round of 16 when he barely edged out fellow ISDA standout Raj Nanda, 13-11 in the fifth, after losing a 12-10 fourth game.
The other quarterfinals are fourth seed Zac Alexander against S. L. Green finalist (for the third year in a row) Gilly Lane in the top half, and third seed Ryan Cuskelly against Bradley Ball after the latter survived a grinding four-setter with John Rooney. All eight seeds were able to make their way to tonight’s quarterfinal stage, with the semis set for 5:00 and 6:00 Saturday at the Sports Club/LA (in New York) and the final scheduled for 3:00 Sunday afternoon at the same venue.
Copyright © 2011 Rob Dinerman
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