Tania Bailey crushes Cassie Campion in Brooklyn Quarters;

Cassie loses at the site of her first WISPA win.

10.20.00 Birmingam, from Sarah Fitz-Gerald:

BAILEY CRUSHES WORLD CHAMPION CAMPION England's world champion Cassie Campion suffered her second setback in just over a week when she was beaten in straight games by compatriot Tania Bailey, the former world junior champion, in the quarter-finals of the $36,000 Women's Carol Weymuller Open in New York.

Bailey, 21, from Stamford in Lincolnshire, is the fastest-improving player on the WISPA World Tour, now boasting a career-high No. 8 world ranking. Her 9-3 9-4 9-0 victory over Campion - who is reported to still have signs of the effects of the 'dead leg' which caused her shock second round exit from last week's British Open - takes her into a semi-final against world No 4 compatriot Linda Charman.

Charman, from Hailsham in Sussex, cruised to a 9-2 9-4 9-4 win over Sabine Schoene, Germany's world No7 who is still fighting back to full fitness after picking up a virus in Australia. The semi-final in the bottom half of the draw will feature the fourth meeting in two months between New Zealand's British Open champion Leilani Joyce and Australia's world No3 Carol Owens.

Joyce, the world No2 from Hamilton who successfully defended her British Open title last week without conceding a game, dropped her first game in New York when she ended Dutch 'giant-killer' Vanessa Atkinson's run with a 9-5 9-3 9-10 9-5 quarter-final win. Third seed Owens, now based in New Zealand, defeated England's US-based fifth seed Natalie Grainger 9-3 9-4 9-2.

Campion's loss has personal significance to her. The Weymuller Open was the site of Campion's first significant WISPA win in the early '90s.

Issued on behalf of: WISPA For further information: Howard Harding Email: HowHard@aol.com

Carol Weymuller Open, Brooklyn:

RESULTS:
Women's Carol Weymuller Open, New York, USA

Quarter-finals:
[8] Tania Bailey (ENG) bt [1] Cassie Campion (ENG) 9-3 9-4 9-0
[4] Linda Charman (ENG) bt [7] Sabine Schoene (GER) 9-2 9-4 9-4
[3] Carol Owens (AUS) bt [5] Natalie Grainger (ENG) 9-3 9-4 9-2
[2] Leilani Joyce (NZL) bt [11] Vanessa Atkinson (NED) 9-5 9-3 9-10 9-5

2nd round:
[1] Cassie Campion (ENG) bt [15] Pamela Nimmo (SCO) 9-4 9-1 9-1
[8] Tania Bailey (ENG) bt [14] Claire Nitch (RSA) 9-1 9-5 9-3
[4] Linda Charman (ENG) bt [10] Rachael Grinham (AUS) 9-1 9-4 9-2
[7] Sabine Schoene (GER) bt [13] Rebecca Macree (ENG) 2-9 9-5 7-9 9-4 9-3
[5] Natalie Grainger (ENG) bt [16] Latasha Khan (USA) 9-1 9-7 3-0 ret.
[3] Carol Owens (AUS) bt [9] Fiona Geaves (ENG) 9-4 9-3 9-4
[11] Vanessa Atkinson (NED) bt [6] Suzanne Horner (ENG) 10-8 10-8 9-5
[2] Leilani Joyce (NZL) bt [12] Stephanie Brind (ENG) 9-5 9-4 9-7

Photo: Tania Bailey in recent action in San Francisco. © 2000 Squashtalk.

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