Barker Out Of CASE Swedish Open by Nathan Clarke February 3, 2015
- England's Peter Barker, the World No.8, has withdrawn from the CASE
Swedish Open, PSA International 70 tournament that gets underway in
Linkoping, Sweden on Thursday, due to injury.
The 31-year-old from Essex had been due to play South African Stephen
Coppinger, the man who beat him at the quarter-final stage of the
recent Suburban Collection Motor City Open, but will now miss the
tournament entirely, meaning Coppinger moves up in the draw to face
wildcard Rasmus Hult in the opening round.
Barker's withdrawal also sees fellow Essex-man Adrian Waller profit as
the 25-year-old automatically moves into the main draw where he will
face German World No.10 Simon Rösner.
The amended first round draw is as follows:
Draw: First Round - CASE Swedish Open
[1] Gregory Gaultier (FRA) v Fares Dessouki (EGY)
[Qualifier] v [6] Nicolas Mueller (SUI)
[8] Stephen Coppinger (RSA) v [WC] Rasmus Hult (SWE)
Chris Simpson (ENG) v [3] James Willstrop (ENG)
[4] Simon Rösner (GER) v Adrian Waller (ENG)
[Qualifier] v [5] Marwan Elshorbagy (EGY)
[7] Cameron Pilley (AUS) v [Qualifier]
[Qualifier] v [2] Nick Matthew (ENG)
The CASE Swedish Open gets underway at Linköping Sporthall, Sweden on
Thursday February 5 and all the main draw action will be shown live and
exclusive on SquashTV: www.psasquashtv.com
