USA Upsets Spain
Egypt, India, Malaysia, England, Australia sail through
By Yasser El Halaby © 2003; all rights of reproduction reserved.
August 24, 2003 

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Today marked the start of the team event with sixteen countries being represented. The teams were divided into four pools according to their seeding. Each team played two matches today leaving one match for tomorrow to determine their pool ranking.

Pool A had the number one seed Egypt, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Switzerland. Hong Kong, the ninth seeds, upset New Zealand, the eighth seeds, 2-1 and will now probably be in the top eight as they face sixteenth seeds Switzerland in their pool match tomorrow. Egypt had no trouble winning both of its matches and is ranked at the top of its pool.

Pool B, which included England, Spain, the USA, and Mexico saw a big upset caused by the USA when they defeated Spain 2-1 in a match that lasted a little over three hours. The US strategized and rested McRery, the US’s number two. Rein Weston played second, instead, and started off the match. Rein Weston’s shots were a little loose to start with and her opponent, Spain’s Carbonel, an excellent volleyer, took advantage and almost won in three when she led 2-0 in games and 6-1 in the third.

Rein Weston, (the rocket), as her coaches and team mates call her, didn’t give up though. Her shots got tighter and deeper and was now taking control of the game. She won that game 10-8 and took the next 9-3. However, a few winners from the Spaniard and some mistakes from Rein Weston gave Carbonel an early lead in the fifth. Rein Weston lost in five but had put on a strong battle. The US was now down 1-0 and needed both Lorentzen and Duboc to win their matches if the US was to win the match. Lorentzen started off on a slow start but tired her opponent in the fisrt.

Down 1-0 Lorentzen played some aggressive squash with lasting durability to win the next three games and tie the match. Duboc playing at the number 3 spot had another slow start and lost the first game 9-1. Still, Duboc looked determined to win and kept attacking to take the next two games with relative ease.

Duboc had match point in the fourth at 8-3 but perhaps too eager to finish off the match changed her game and slowly started losing one point after the other to eventually lose the game 10-8. A frustrated Duboc was calmed down by her coaches between games. She launched a series of winners and played her attacking game to win the fifth game 9-2 and give the match to the US.

“We reamed them,” said US coach Aiden Harrison “We knew we ‘d beat them on endurance.” The girls agreed. “We went out strong and they just crumbled,” said Lorentzen, the American number one.

The US put on a strong performance against second seeds England in their second pool match, with Rein Weston’s match being the closest of the three, but lost 3-0.The US will now face Mexico in their last pool match that has the potential to be one-sided in favor of the US.

Pool C saw no surprises with Australia and Malaysia beating both Ireland and Scotland 3-0. Australia and Malaysia will play each other tomorrow to determine the winner of their pool. No surprises were present in Pool D either as India and Canada, the fourth and fifth seeds, had no trouble defeating Germany and Wales. India and Canada will now battle it off together to determine the winner of Pool D.

The top two teams from each pool will play in the quarter finals as for the third and fourth ranked pool teams will be playing for a place from nine to sixteen.

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