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Maryland Club ISDA Friday update
By Rob Dinerman, Oct 20, 2007    
Squashtalk Independent News; © 2007 SquashTalk LLC

The $ 30,000 Maryland Club Open, now in its fifth year and clearly one of the most popular stops on the ISDA pro doubles tour, has seen all of the favored teams prevail to this point. The top two seeded qualifying teams, Rob Dinerman/Tom Harrity (who broke away from home-club favorites Doug Hoffberger and Bo Cashman in the final two games of that 3-1 match after the two teams had split the tight first two games) and Doug Lifford/Dave Rosen, both moved into the main draw on Thursday, though Lifford and Rosen were forced to a fifth game by Jamie Crombie/Michael Puertas, who led 10-9 in the fifth after rallying from 7-11 to 15-12 in the fourth after earlier winning in a fifth-set overtime against Ben Garner and Wade Johnstone, who had actually led 2-1, 9-1 before tinning that large lead away.

Then yesterday in the four round of 16 matches in this 12-team main-draw (which byes each of the top four seeds into today's quarterfinals), Matt Jensen and Jeff Mulligan out-played Ayman Kerim and Ben Howell in four games, while new partners Michael Pirnak/Mark Chaloner ousted Tournament Chairman and head pro of the host club Andrew Cordova and Duke senior Tim Porter, Scott Butcher and James Hewitt overwhelmed Dinerman and Harrity and Joe Pentland and Mark Price did the same to Rosen and Lifford.

In today's early-afternoon quarterfinal action, top seeds and defending champions Ben Gould and Paul Price, who let a 2-0, 14-9 lead get away last week in the season-opening St. Louis stop in the semis against eventual champions Clive Leach and Chris Walker, will get a chance to redeem themselves in their match against Mulligan/Jensen; third seeds and last year's Maryland Club Open finalists Preston Quick and John Russell, who trailed Pentland/Mark Price 12-7 in the fifth last week before rallying with an 8-0 match-saving surge, will take on Chaloner and Pirnak; fourth-seeded Leach and Walker will oppose Butcher, Leach's partner last season, and Hewitt; and second seeds Viktor Berg, now recovered from a hamstring pull that sidelined him for St. Louis, and his new partner Damien Mudge will make their debut against Pentland and Mark Price.

The semis will be played late this afternoon, with the final scheduled for 2:00 on Sunday.

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