Top Seeds Sarah Kippax & Latasha Khan Into $10K WSA Hamptons Semis
from Sam Cornett


August 10, 2012 - Here's a quick word on the matches today.

There was lots of excitement as two rounds were played.

I'm the morning, Sarah Kippax (ENG)  beat Salma Hany (EGY) 3-0,

Lucie Fialova (CZE) beat Alex Norman (CAN) 3-1,

I beat Alex Clark (SCO) 3-0,

Nicolette Fernandes (GUY) beat Kanzy El Dafrawy (EGY) 3-0,

Misaki Kobayashi (JPN) beat Sabrina Sobhy (US) 3-0,

Yathreb Adel (EGY) beat Kristen Lange (US) 3-0,

Farah Meguid (EGY) beat Lily Lorentzen (US) 3-0, and Latasha Khan (US) beat Celia Allamargot (FRA) 3-0.

There were a couple great matches in this first round that I saw, but I didn't catch them all since I wanted to relax before the quarters in the evening.

And the evening didn't disappoint.

Sarah beat Lucie 3-0, and while she was in control, she certainly couldn't let up, as Lucie didn't stop trying her hardest for a second.

I beat Nicolette 3-2, after being down 2-0. You can imagine that this is an amazing win for me, I've got a lot of respect for Nicolette and her game, and I'd never beat her before today. A pleasure to play her, since the intensity was high and the rallies were long, which I love.

Misaki beat Yathreb, Misaki was up one game I believe, and I gather then looked rather confused when Yathreb went to shake hands with her in the second, conceding the match due to injury.

Latasha beat Farah in a very intense and testy four games I gather, although didn't get to see it.

Semis tomorrow afternoon! In the meantime we get to enjoy the wonderful Hamptons.

Cheers!
Sam





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