David makes quick work of USA star Latasha Khan
[Salt Lake Draw/Results]

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May 9, 2003 

Pro squash returned again to Salt Lake City. Craig Bennett, the enthusiastic focal point of squash in the beehive state, again has brought top level women's squash to a growing group of knowledgeable fans in Utah. First day's play featured an electric win by Asian star, Nicol David, and intriguing matches featuring Vicky Botwright versus rising Mexican star Samantha Teran, and youth vs youth as England's Duncalf stopped Australia's Pittock.

Upset Sets Up Revenge For David

Malaysia's twice world junior squash champion Nicol David pulled off a modest
upset on the opening day of the Women's Squashworks Open in Salt Lake City,
USA, to set up a mouth-watering quarter-final clash with Hong Kong's Rebecca
Chiu.

David, still only 19, ruled Asian women's squash for a number of years
leading up to last October's Asian Games in South Korea. In a major upset in
the final, the title-holding teenager was beaten in straight games by Chiu.
It was David's first loss to her Hong Kong rival in four meetings that year,
and her first Asian defeat since winning three Asian Championships titles and
the Asian Games gold medal in 1998.

In only her third WISPA event this year since taking a rest from the World
Tour since May last year, the unseeded Nicol David beat seventh seed Latasha
Khan, of the USA, 10-8 9-6 9-4 to set up her revenge match with Chiu.
Fourth-seeded Chiu defeated New Zealand's Lara Petera 9-6 9-1 10-8.

Fresh from leading England to success in the women's European Team
Championships on Sunday, top seed Cassie Jackman cruised to a 9-3 9-1 9-0 win
over USA's Shabana Khan and now faces Ireland's Madeline Perry, the 5th seed,
for a place in the semi-finals.

Jackman's England team-mate Jenny Tranfield, her seeded opponent in the
final, withdrew from the event with a flu virus on arrival in the USA.
English qualifier Alison Waters became the beneficiary of this withdrawal
when she beat American 'lucky loser' Meredeth Quick 9-2 9-6 9-3 to take
Tranfield's anticipated slot in the quarter-finals.

RESULTS: Women's Squashworks Open, Salt Lake City, USA

1st round:
[1] Cassie Jackman (ENG) bt Shabana Khan (USA) 9-3, 9-1, 9-0
[5] Madeline Perry (IRL) bt [Q] Heidi Mather (AUS) 9-0, 9-4, 9-5
[4] Rebecca Chiu (HKG) bt Lara Petera (NZL) 9-6, 9-1, 10-8
Nicol David (MAS) bt [7] Latasha Khan (USA) 10-8, 9-6, 9-4
[8] Jenny Duncalf (ENG) bt [Q] Amelia Pittock (AUS) 2-9, 9-7, 9-5, 9-3
[3] Vicky Botwright (ENG) bt [Q] Samantha Teran (MEX) 9-4, 8-10, 9-4, 9-4
[6] Sharon Wee (MAS) bt Kate Allison (ENG) 8-10, 9-2, 9-0, 9-6
[Q] Alison Waters (ENG) bt Meredeth Quick (USA) 9-2, 9-6, 9-3

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