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TEGWEN MALIK STOPS SHABANA [Main Draw]

RESULTS: Women's PMI Seattle Open Squash Championship, Bellevue, Seattle, USA

Qualifying finals:
Alison Waters (ENG) bt Melanie Jans Burke (CAN) 9-2, 9-4, 9-3
Laura-Jane Lengthorn (ENG) bt Samantha Teran (MEX) 9-1, 5-9, 9-4, 9-3
Tegwen Malik (WAL) bt Shabana Khan (Seattle, WA USA) 9-0, 9-1, 10-8
Pamela Nimmo (SCO) bt Emma Parke (ENG) 9-0, 9-0, 9-3

Qualifying first round:
Emma Parke (ENG) bt Kirstin Lange (Seattle, WA USA) 9-5 9-0 9-0
(all others by bye)

The chance of US squash-playing sisters Latasha Khan and Shabana Khan competing alongside each other in the Women's PMI Seattle Open in their brother's club in Seattle have been dashed by Welsh champion Tegwen Malik in the qualifying finals for the Silver 25 WISPA World Tour event.

After staging a brave fight-back in the third game, elder sister Shabana went down 9-0 9-1 10-8 to Malik, who goes on to face third seed Nicol David, from Malaysia, in the first round.

Earlier, in the first round of qualifying, Seattle teenager Kirstin Lange fell short in a battle with England's Emma Parke. Lange, a local wildcard entrant, was competitive in the first game, but was unable to score a point in the last two frames.

There was another North American casualty in the qualifying finals when Canada's Melanie Jans Burke lost out to England's Alison Waters. The 9-2 9-4 9-3 win takes Waters through to a first round clash with England team-mate Vicky Botwright, the seventh seed.

Meanwhile Latasha Khan, the six-times US champion, leads domestic interest in the bottom half of the draw where she takes on second seed Vanessa Atkinson, the world champion from the Netherlands.

Fifth seed Natalie Grainger leads local interest in the top half of the draw. The 28-year-old world No5 from Washington DC faces English qualifier Laura-Jane Lengthorn.

Updated 1st round draw [complete draw]:

[1] Rachael Grinham (AUS) v [Q] Pamela Nimmo (SCO)
[5] Natalie Grainger (USA) v [Q] Laura-Jane Lengthorn (ENG)
[4] Natalie Grinham (AUS) v Tania Bailey (ENG)
[6] Linda Elriani (ENG) v Shelley Kitchen (NZL)
[7] Vicky Botwright (ENG) v [Q] Alison Waters (ENG)
[3] Nicol David (MAS) v [Q] Tegwen Malik (WAL)
[8] Omneya Abdel Kawy (EGY) v Jenny Duncalf (ENG)
[2] Vanessa Atkinson (NED) v Latasha Khan (USA)