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Semis Results Sets Up Big Apple Rematch
By Rob Dinerman, Oct 6, 2006    
Squashtalk Independent News; © 2006 SquashTalk LLC

In a pair of exciting Sunday afternoon semifinals, each of which contained two tiebreaker sessions, top seeded Gary Waite and Damien Mudge and third seeds Ben Gould and Paul Price advanced to the final round of the fourth annual Big Apple Open. While the participants in the New York City Marathon streamed past the New York Athletic Club building as they ran west on 59th Street just before re-entering Central Park for the final run to Tavern On The Green and the finish line, the best doubles squash teams in the world staged some memorable marathons of their own inside on the 21st floor.

In defeating Scott Butcher and Clive Leach by a tally of 18-14 15-11 17-15 (from a 10-14 deficit), Waite and Mudge became the only team to reach all four Big Apple Open finals and gained an opportunity both to replicate their championship run of two years ago and to avenge the semifinal loss they had sustained four weeks back at the hands of Price and Gould at the season-opening tourney in Baltimore. Similarly, by out-playing Berg and Walker in the balancing semi (whose stat line read 10-15 15-10 17-15 14-16 15-10), Gould and Price earned for themselves the chance to consolidate their month-old Maryland Club Open crown and, in Gould's case, to make a return visit to the winner's circle that he and Preston Quick occupied at the end of the '05 Big Apple Open final.

The tournament has had the theoretical maximums of three different teams and six different players in its brief history to this point (Leach/Willie Hosey, then Waite/Mudge, then Quick/Gould) and neither skein will survive Monday evening's 6:00 final.

Semis Recap
Gary Waite/Damien Mudge d Scott Butcher/Clive Leach, 18-14 15-11 17-15
Paul Price/Ben Gould d Chris Walker/Viktor Berg, 10-15 15-10 17-15 14-16 15-10

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