WORLD SQUASH NEWS

RESULTS: Berger Funds Art of Squash, Denver, Colorado, USA

Final:

[1] Leilani Joyce (NZL) bt [6] Tania Bailey (ENG) 9/3 9/1 9/3

Semi-finals:

[1] Leilani Joyce (NZL) bt [4] Latasha Khan (USA) 9/7 9/6 9/0
[6] Tania Bailey (ENG) bt [3] Janie Thacker (ENG) 6/9 9/1 9/2 7/9 10/8

Quarter-finals:[1] Leilani Joyce (NZL) bt [7] Pamela Nimmo (SCO) 9/0 9/1 9/1
[4] Latasha Khan (USA) bt [8] Marnie Baizley (CAN) 9/5 9/0 9/1
[3] Janie Thacker (ENG) bt [5] Shabana Khan (USA) 9/0 9/1 9/3
[6] Tania Bailey (ENG) bt [2] Rebecca Macree (ENG) 9/4 6/9 9/4 9/6

New Zealand's world No 6 Leilani Joyce claimed her second WISPA World Tour title in a week when she beat England's world junior champion Tania Bailey 9/3 9/1 9/3 in the final of the Women's Berger Funds 'Art of Squash' Championship in Denver, Colorado.

Top seed Joyce, 24, from Auckland, won the Evergreen Women's Open in Colorado at the end of February, and cruised through the Denver event without conceding a game.

Sixth seed Bailey, the 19-year-old world No 33 from Stamford in Lincolnshire, reached her second WISPA World Tour final after dismissing two higher seeds, both also from England. In the quarter-finals she dismissed second seed Rebecca Macree, the world No 13 from London, in four games, and in the semi- finals the third seed from Yorkshire, world No 21 Janie Thacker, in five games.

Issued on behalf of WISPA by Howard Harding

For further information: Howard Harding Email: HowHard@aol.com

3, March 1999