Duncalf Topples Title-Holder To
Take Tenerife
Title
England's Jenny
Duncalf rounded off her squash year in fine style
when she upset compatriot Vicky Botwright,
the top seed and defending champion, in the final of the Prince
Women's Canary Islands Open to lift the last WISPA
World Tour title of 2005 in Santa
Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
Duncalf,
the world No8 from Harrogate in Yorkshire, was in sparkling
form throughout the event and reached the final without
dropping a game - conceding only 15 points in three rounds.
Botwright,
the world No5 from Manchester,
was celebrating her fifth WISPA final
of the year and looking to retain the Tenerife title
she won for the first time in 2004.
But
Duncalf was on song from the outset, beating her higher-ranked
England team-mate 9-4 9-6 9-4 to clinch the second WISPA
crown of her career.
It
was the pair's fifth WISPA meeting, but the 23-year-old
from Yorkshire had only previously beaten her rival once – and
that was in the final of the 2003 Atlanta Masters when
Duncalf picked up her maiden Tour title.
RESULTS: Prince
Women's Canary
Islands Squash
Open, Santa
Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Final:
[2] Jenny Duncalf (ENG) bt [1] Vicky Botwright (ENG) 9-4, 9-6, 9-4
Semi-finals:
[1] Vicky Botwright (ENG) bt [3]
Laura-Jane Lengthorn (ENG) 9-6, 9-4, 6-9, 9-4
[2] Jenny Duncalf (ENG) bt [4] Pamela
Nimmo (SCO) 9-4, 9-2, 9-4
Quarter-finals:
[1]
Vicky Botwright (ENG) bt [6] Dominique Lloyd-Walter (ENG) 9-4,
9-4, 9-4
[3] Laura-Jane Lengthorn
(ENG) bt [8] Lauren Briggs (ENG) 9-1,
9-2, 9-6
[4] Pamela Nimmo (SCO)
bt [7] Rebecca Botwright (ENG) 9-6,
3-9, 9-4, 4-9, 9-3
[2] Jenny Duncalf
(ENG) bt Jaclyn Hawkes (NZL) 9-2,
9-0, 9-2
1st
round:
[1] Vicky Botwright (ENG) bt [Q] Orla Noom (NED) 9-3,
9-2, 9-6
[6] Dominique Lloyd-Walter (ENG) bt [Q] Lauren Siddall (ENG) 9-7,
4-9, 9-5, 9-6
[3] Laura-Jane Lengthorn (ENG) bt [Q] Nicolette Fernandes (GUY) 8-10,
9-5, 9-3, 9-2
[8] Lauren Briggs (ENG) bt Line Hansen (DEN) 9-3,
9-6, 9-4
[7] Rebecca Botwright (ENG) bt [Q] Sarah Kippax (ENG) 9-5,
4-9, 9-3, 9-3
[4] Pamela Nimmo (SCO) bt Chantal Moros-Pitarch (ESP) 9-0,
9-0, 9-0
Jaclyn Hawkes (NZL) bt [5] Carla Khan (PAK) 9-7,
9-4, 9-5
[2] Jenny Duncalf (ENG) bt Jenna Gates (ENG) 9-0,
9-0, 9-1
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