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ISDA LI,NY and Canadian Mid-Weekend update
By Rob Dinerman, Apr 15, 2007    
Squashtalk Independent News; © 2007 SquashTalk LLC

Mid-Tournament Doubles Updates From Toronto And Long Island  

Comebacks abounded both in Toronto, host city to the Canadian National Mixed Doubles, and Locust Valley in Long Island, where the ISDA pro doubles tour is having its final event of the 2006-07 tour. This season was actually supposed to end two weeks from now in San Francisco, but that event was cancelled last weekend.

In the Canadian Mixed, this afternoon’s final will be a rematch from both last year’s tourney and the Convenor’s Cup final early this autumn, in each of which Scott Dulmage and Jessica Dimauro prevailed over the husband/wife team of James and Steph Hewitt, the U. S. Mixed Doubles champs in Boston three years ago. The Hewitts had to dig themselves out of a two-game hole after dropping each of the opening stanzas by one point in their semifinal yesterday afternoon against Caro Paskulin and Chris Deratnay, who however were subsequently held to 15-9, 10 and 11. Ironically, Deratnay and Hewitt were partners in the Canadian Men’s Nationals early last month, falling in the semis to Morris Clothier and Scott Stoneburgh, who then defeated Dulmage and Richard Thompson in the final.

At the sixth annual Creek Challenge Cup, three-time defending champions Gary Waite and Damien Mudge avenged their shocking first-round U. S. Nationals loss two weeks ago with a four-game quarterfinal win over Michael Pirnak and Tyler Millard. Their semifinal opponents, Scott Butcher and Clive Leach, were spent from their draining rally the night before against qualifiers Matt Jensen and Jeff Mulligan, who led two games to love and were two points away from winning in three before coming up just short, five points to three, in that best-of-nine tiebreaker.

After surviving that 18-16 session, Butcher and Leach took the next pair of games 15-7, 15-11, but were never able to challenge Waite and Mudge, who led 2-0, 9-4 before Butcher badly sprained his ankle falling over his left-wall opponent, Waite, and was too badly injured to continue. It was the bottom-half semi that contained all of the Saturday-evening drama, as for the second time in as many events as partners, Ben Gould and Willie Hosey (pinch-hitting for Paul Price, Gould’s regular 2006-07 partner, who has been sidelined since mid-March with a back injury) were edged out in a semifinal fifth-game tiebreaker.

At the U. S. Nationals in Philadelphia, Hosey and Gould rallied from down 5-12 to up 4-2, set-5 (a 12-3 run), only to be victimized by a swift trio of Butcher/Leach winners and an 18-17 denouement; this time, Hosey and Gould saved a fourth-game match-ball against them and surged to 14-12 in the fifth, only to then be denied on both match-balls and eventually drop a 17-15 decision

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