Hall, M Quick to Face off Tonight
Jan 31, 2005, by Rob Dinerman, SquashTalk,
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Quick/Eiteljorg Win Merion Mixed Hardball Doubles

Meredeth Quick will be going for the Merion Double tonight as she takes on Louisa Hall (Photo © 2005 by Debra Tessier)

Meredeth Quick will be going for an unusual "double"
this evening when she faces her rival and sometime teammate Louisa Hall this evening on Hall's Merion Cricket Club home turf in the final of the first of three U. S. Team Selection women's events. Immediately following the match, Hall will be on her way to Poughkeepsie NY to attempt to qualify at the WISPA event there, starting Tuesday.

In addition to her pre-final wins during this past weekend over Carlin Wing and Shebana Khan, Quick also teamed up with Alex Eiteljorg to win the Merion Mixed Doubles tournament at the
final-round expense of Kat Van Blarcom and Jamie Heldring. Eiteljorg won this
tourney last year with his usual Philadelphia-area Mixed partner Demer Holleran, the coach of the U. S. women's team, who chose not to defend in order to run the singles event. Quick, who played the left wall when she and Jessica Dimauro opposed Holleran and Alicia McConnell last March in the 2004 U. S. National Doubles final, demonstrated her versatility this weekend by moving to the right wall without any diminution in her effectiveness.

Hall, whose mother, Anne, teamed with Gary Madeira to reach the final of the B Merion Mixed (where they lost in five to Baird McIlvain and Aly Oglesby), also defeated her former Harvard teammate Wing and Khan, though the latter match went to a fifth game after Khan rallied from a two-love deficit before losing the deciding stanza 9-2. There were originally six entrants in the women's event, but Lily Lorentzen (flu) and Julie Lilien (injury) both withdrew late last week. Aspirants for the U. S. women's team are required to play the Nationals (which will be in Boston in March) as well as two of the three team selection tournaments, the remaining pair of which are slated in the next half-dozen weeks in Greenwich and New York.

Wing and Khan will play off for third place today at 1:30, and the Hall-Quick final is set for 6:30 this evening. The last time these two young American stars squared off in a final, Hall prevailed in five games last January at the Harvard Club of New York Invitational, a result Quick reversed, also in five, a few months later in a Nationals semi. Quick dominated both of their meetings this past autumn, winning in three both in a U. S. Open qualifier at Heights Casino (where she has been an assistant pro for the last two years) and in a Howe Cup Philadelphia-New York No. 1 team match a few weeks later. Both were members of the U. S. team in 2003 and 2004.

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