World Doubles Friday Summary: British Teams To Clash In Semis
By Rob Dinerman for DailySquashReport.com
Dateline May 7th --- The two teams representing England both advanced to the semifinals of the World Doubles in Toronto and will meet head-to-head this afternoon. John Russell and Clive Leach, finalists the last time this biennial championship was held in 2009, notched four-game Friday afternoon-evening victories over a pair of Canadian opponents (Will Mariani/Ian Power and James Hewitt/Fred Reid Jr.) while their English compatriots Jonny Smith and Mark Chaloner were similarly triumphing, again by a 3-1 count in both instances, over first Canadians Scott Stoneburgh and Chris Deratnay and then, less expectedly, over Australians Paul Price (who won this event with Ben Gould two years ago in San Francisco) and Matt Jenson.
In the top-half semi, first seeds and prohibitive tournament favorites Gould and Damien Mudge, who cruised past Scotland’s Jamie Macaulay and Lyall Paterson and Pakistani representatives Imran and Khayal Khan in decisive 3-0 fashion, will take on Americans Preston Quick and Greg Park, who followed up their Thursday opening-round win over Scottish stars Martin Heath and Greg McArthur with a four-game victory last night over Canadians Willie Hosey and Michael Pirnak. The fact that eight of the 11 matches played to this point of the tournament (eight of nine if one factors out the two Mudge/Gould matches) have gone to a fourth game points up how competitive the event has been and how well these team members have meshed in spite of the fact that in a majority of cases they are partnering up for the first time.
The two women’s quarterfinals, by contrast, both went the three-game minimum, as Americans Emily Lungstrum and Dana Betts out-played their Canadian opponents Karen Jerome and Rebecca Hazel. The Philadelphia pairing of Amy Milanek and Dawn Gray had been expected to have their hands full with Toronto denizens Adriana DiMauro (whose older sister Jessica won this event two years back with Steph Hewitt) and Marci Sier, but Milanek/Gray prevailed in straight sets. They will play Hewitt and Seanna Keating later today while Betts and Lungstrum take on the top-seeded Australians Narelle Krizek and her sister Latarsha McElhinny, recent winners of the U. S. National Doubles.
Both the men’s and women’s finals are set for Monday evening.
Results PRO matches -
Round of 16
Mudge/Gould def L.Patterson/McCaulay 3-0
Jenson/Price def D.Patterson/Bassett 3-0
Chaloner/Smith def Stoneburgh/Deratnay 3-1
Russell/Leach def Mariani/Power 3-1
Quarter finals
Gould/Mudge (Australia) def Khan/Khan (Pakistan) 3-0
Park/Quick (USA) def Hosey/Pirnak (Canada) 3-1
Chaloner/Smith (England) def Jenson/Price (Australia) 3-1
Russell/Leach (England) def Hewitt/Reid (Canada) 3-1
Women's
Lungstrum/Betts(USA) def Jerome/Hazell (Canada) 3-0
Milanek/Gray(USA) def Sier/DiMauro 3-0
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By Rob Dinerman for DailySquashReport.com
Dateline May 7th --- The two teams representing England both advanced to the semifinals of the World Doubles in Toronto and will meet head-to-head this afternoon. John Russell and Clive Leach, finalists the last time this biennial championship was held in 2009, notched four-game Friday afternoon-evening victories over a pair of Canadian opponents (Will Mariani/Ian Power and James Hewitt/Fred Reid Jr.) while their English compatriots Jonny Smith and Mark Chaloner were similarly triumphing, again by a 3-1 count in both instances, over first Canadians Scott Stoneburgh and Chris Deratnay and then, less expectedly, over Australians Paul Price (who won this event with Ben Gould two years ago in San Francisco) and Matt Jenson.
In the top-half semi, first seeds and prohibitive tournament favorites Gould and Damien Mudge, who cruised past Scotland’s Jamie Macaulay and Lyall Paterson and Pakistani representatives Imran and Khayal Khan in decisive 3-0 fashion, will take on Americans Preston Quick and Greg Park, who followed up their Thursday opening-round win over Scottish stars Martin Heath and Greg McArthur with a four-game victory last night over Canadians Willie Hosey and Michael Pirnak. The fact that eight of the 11 matches played to this point of the tournament (eight of nine if one factors out the two Mudge/Gould matches) have gone to a fourth game points up how competitive the event has been and how well these team members have meshed in spite of the fact that in a majority of cases they are partnering up for the first time.
The two women’s quarterfinals, by contrast, both went the three-game minimum, as Americans Emily Lungstrum and Dana Betts out-played their Canadian opponents Karen Jerome and Rebecca Hazel. The Philadelphia pairing of Amy Milanek and Dawn Gray had been expected to have their hands full with Toronto denizens Adriana DiMauro (whose older sister Jessica won this event two years back with Steph Hewitt) and Marci Sier, but Milanek/Gray prevailed in straight sets. They will play Hewitt and Seanna Keating later today while Betts and Lungstrum take on the top-seeded Australians Narelle Krizek and her sister Latarsha McElhinny, recent winners of the U. S. National Doubles.
Both the men’s and women’s finals are set for Monday evening.
Results PRO matches -
Round of 16
Mudge/Gould def L.Patterson/McCaulay 3-0
Jenson/Price def D.Patterson/Bassett 3-0
Chaloner/Smith def Stoneburgh/Deratnay 3-1
Russell/Leach def Mariani/Power 3-1
Quarter finals
Gould/Mudge (Australia) def Khan/Khan (Pakistan) 3-0
Park/Quick (USA) def Hosey/Pirnak (Canada) 3-1
Chaloner/Smith (England) def Jenson/Price (Australia) 3-1
Russell/Leach (England) def Hewitt/Reid (Canada) 3-1
Women's
Lungstrum/Betts(USA) def Jerome/Hazell (Canada) 3-0
Milanek/Gray(USA) def Sier/DiMauro 3-0
Copyright © 2011 Rob Dinerman
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