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Hyder Open Prelims
by Rob Dinerman © 2002 SquashTalk

May 17, 2002 © 2002      

Preliminary Rounds Progress In Hyder Invitational

Top seed Julian Wellings of England will play Eric Christiansen this evening at the New York thletic Club on West 59th Street at the foot of Central Park in midtown Manhattan.

Christiansen, who until recently was an assistant pro at the host site, defeated Greg Witcher in three games earlier today. He was joined as a straight-set preliminary-round winner by Mohamed Mustafa, currently the pro at the Shore Racquet Club near Atlantic City, NJ, who won over Brian Mathias, former Trinity star Josh Miller, who defeated Farooq, three-time S. L Green runner-up Richard Chin and '98 Intercollegiate Individual champ and curent Harvard Club No. 1 Dan Ezra, who overwhelmed Dan Kapur.

Second seed Kerim Yehia, an assistant pro at NYAC, will play the last match of tonight's round-of-16 schedule against Brogna, while Ezra will face recent New Zealand team star Daniel Sharplin in the balancing bottom-quarter match. Miller will go up against third seed Damien Mudge, with the winner to face Chin in tomorrow's quarter-final as a result of the withdrawal of Mark Burke, whom Chin would have played this evening.

The second-quarter match-ups have not been fully determined at this late-afternoon writing, but Clive Leach will face the winner of the match between Swedish-born Alex Pavulans and 2001 Trinity grad Akihl Behl and Imran Khan will play either Francis Odeh or Peter Lubowitz. The Wellings-Christiansen winner will match up in tomorrow's quarter-finals with either Mustafa or 2002 S. L. Green finalist Preston Quick.

This evening's round-of-16 will commence at 5:30, when Leach takes the court, hoping to equal or better his semi-final showing two years ago before a wrist problem derailed him last year.

Preliminary Results:
Eric Christiansen def Gary Witcher 3-0
Mohamed Hassan def Brian Mathias 3-0
Francis Odeh def Peter Lubowitz
Alex Pavulans def Akhil Behl
Josh Miller def R Farooq
Richard Chin def D Cukierman
Daniel Ezra def Dan Kapur
Paul Brogna def E Lucena

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