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Carol Owens Achieves Important Win
by Howard Harding © 2002 SquashTalk. Photos courtesy AON Open
March 4, 2002 by Howard Harding, may not be reproduced without express
permission.
OWENS IN LONG FIVE
In a titanic battle between two former world champions, New Zealand's
Carol Owens twice had to come from behind before beating England's Cassie
Campion 8-10 9-4 6-9 9-4 9-3 to lift the $36,000 AON Women's Texas Squash
Open title in Houston, USA.
The climax of the first Texas Open marks the 2000 world champion's 19th WISPA World Tour title, and Owens' sixth successive win over 1999 world champion Campion since April 2000. Campion, the second seed, raced to a 7-4 lead in the opening game, then lost concentration after a disputed call on a drop shot. After saving a game ball, England's British National champion regrouped to take a 1-0 lead.
CAROL'S COMEBACK
Top-seeded Owens, the former Australian dressed in a distinctive "Kiwi"
all-black dress, began upped her level of concentration and started to
find her range on her tight drops, and evened the match 1-1. In the third,
Cassie pulled back from 0-4 down to take the game in 18 minutes.
The
fifth game decider was totally absorbing and competitive, but Owens ultimately
kept up the pressure to claim her winner's cheque after 69 minutes.
IN MEMORY OF
GRANDMOTHER
Carol dedicated the win to her grandmother, who died the previous day,
aged 94. "She followed my career all the way through, and it was terrible
that I read the news in an e-mail just before the match. I don't normally
read my mail before a final." Carol Owens, who in recent year eschewed
frequent appearances in the USA due to erratic prize purses, has been
rewarded for her concentrated effort on the North American phase of the
WISPA tour this year.
Owens has taken titles in Southport and here and provided formidable competition to world #1 Sarah Fitz-Gerald in West Hartford in January before being overwhelmed by a Fitz-Gerald attack in New York at the beginning of February. This win was a significant and important one for her. And very psychologically significant against the resurgent Campion.
AON Natural Resources Group Managing Director Jim Pierce was absolutely delighted with the WISPA show, and told a cheering audience: "This has to be the first of many Texas Opens."
RESULTS: AON Women's Texas Squash Open, Houston, Texas, USA
Final:
[1] Carol Owens (NZL) bt [2] Cassie Campion (ENG) 8-10, 9-4, 6-9, 9-4,
9-3 (69m)
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