Kobayashi Upends Teran In $15K Toronto Granite Club Quarters
by Jessica DiMauro
March 26, 2013 - Quarter-final night at the Granite Open has just come to a close....We started off the evening with 2 hours of Pro-Am Hardball Doubles. Eight sponsors, paired with 8 of the Women played in two round robin pools. It was great! Lots of squash, lots of laughs and no one got hit! We have two more hours of Pro-Am Doubles tomorrow and everyone seems to be looking forward to it!
Tonight's Pro matches started with Misaki Kobayashi (Japan) playing where she could do no wrong. Great patience, nice pace changes and decisive offensive boasts and attacking cross-courts pushed Misaki to a solid 3-0 win over an amazing World #18 Player, Samantha Teran (Mexico).
In the second quarter final, Victoria Lust (England) was too fast and too patient for Heba El Torky (Egypt). Heba played all the way to the Saturday night final of last week's Mayfair Open, had one day of rest on Sunday and then won a hard-fought, five-game battle last night in the first round of the Granite Open against Megan Craig (New Zealand). When Lust started running Heba around the court tonight, she had nothing left in the fourth game.
Sarah-Jane (England) had too much control tonight. Amanda Landers-Murphy (New Zealand) put up a great fight and chased down lots of balls but in the end, SJ's holds and flicks sent Amanda going the wrong way too many times. Amanda is much stronger, faster and better than she was just a year ago at this tourny but so is SJ! We look forward to seeing them again in future Granite Opens. Hopefully we'll keep growing the prize money to keep this great players coming back :)
In the last game, Sarah Kippax (England) was very strong and was able to capitalize on the fact that Lotte Eriksen (Norway) ran poor Lauren Selby (England) around for five hard games last night. Tonight, Kippax was too strong for Selby and won 3-0 to set up an all-England semi-final tomorrow night.
Tonight's re-cap and tomorrow's SEMI-FINAL match-ups are listed below. I will try to send some pictures later tonight....
Tuesday Night Quarter Finals!!!!
6:00pm
Misaki Kobayashi (Japan) World #37 OVER Samantha Teran (Mexico) World #18 11-7, 11-6, 11-4
6:45pm
Victoria Lust (England) World #50 OVER Heba El Torky (Egypt) World #30 11-9, 10-12, 11-8, 11-5
7:30pm
Sarah-Jane Perry (England) World #26 OVER Amanda Landers-Murphy (New Zealand) World #35 11-9, 11-8, 11-7
8:15pm
Sarah Kippax (England) World #20 OVER Lauren Selby (England) World #45 11-5, 11-6, 11-4
Wednesday SEMI-FINALS!
6:30pm
Misaki Kobayashi (Japan) World #37 VS Victoria Lust (England) World #50
7:30pm
Sarah-Jane Perry (England) World #26 VS Sarah Kippax (England) World #20
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