Scottish junior Ian Chubb, became the only local player to reach the finals of the very international Scottish Junior Open, amongst a field of 245 players drawn from China, India, USA, Mexico, Canada and other nationalities.

GOING FOR THE HAT TRICK
Meanwhile, Canada's uncanny sharpshooter, Girls U19 competitor Neha Kumar, will go for the triple, as she plays England's Victoria Lust in her bid to add the Scottish Open crown to her Canadian Open and US Open trophies, won in the past three weeks.

The Mexican traveling Junior squad, who populated the latter stages of the junior draws at the Canadian Junior Open and US Junior Open, showed their stuff in Scotland this week, with the Salazar twins taking both final berths in the Men's U19 Scottish Junior Open, as well as the other U15 finals berth, in which Gabriel Velazquez will fill the other end of the draw agains Chubb.

Other shows of strength cam from Canada, with three finalists and three addional semi finals, India, with three finalists and four additional semi finalists, and China with two finalists and two additional semi finalists.

NO STRENGTH IN YANKEE NUMBERS
Despite the presence of some 47 Americans in the draw, none of them emerged through the quarterfinal rounds.

Scottish Jr Open, Dec 26-30 2005
Results
Semi Finals:
BU19:
[3/4] Arturo Salazar (MEX) def [1] David Glass (CAN) 10-8 9-5 9-4
[5/8] Cesar Salazar (MEX) def [9/16] Andrew MdDougall (CAN) 7-9 9-2 9-4 10-9
BU17:
[1] Rory Byrne (IRE) vs [17/32] Ben Molyneux (ENG)
[2] David Letourneau (CAN) vs [3/4] Carten Schoor (GER)
BU15:
Gabriel Velazquez (MEX) vs Karan Malik (IND)
[2] Ian Jubb (SCO) def [3/4] Alex Bowden (ENG) 9-3 9-5 9-4
BU13:
[3/4] David Wardle (ENG) def [1] Greg Mason (WAL) 6-9 9-7 9-0 9-2
[2] Abhishek Pradhan (IND) def Samuel Conant (USA) 9-3 9-3 9-2
GU19:
[5/8] Victoria Lust (ENG) def [3/4] Alexandra Clark (SCO) 9-5 9-2 9-7
[3/4] Neha Kumar (CAN) def [2] Emma Chorley (ENG) 9-2 9-3 9-4
GU17:
[1] Bethan Williams (WAL) def Surbhi Misra (IND) 9-5 10-8 9-5
Leung Shin (CHINA) def Dorothy Ko (CHINA) 9-6 9-1 9-6
GU15:
Liu Tsz Ling (CHINA) def Samantha Cornett (CAN) 9-0 9-3 9-3
[3/4] Laura Gemmell (CAN) def Lee Carmen (CHINA) 9-1 9-7 6-9 8-10 9-0
GU13:
[1] Sachika Balvani (IND) def Aparajitha Balmurukan (IND) 4-9 9-6 9-4 9-4
[3/4] Anaka Alankamony (IND) def Saumya Karki (IND) 9-4 9-1 9-5