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2001 World Junior Women's Championships:
Third
day results: Quibell charges forward, England sends four through
Martin Bronstein, Squashtalk reporter on the scene
in Penang's Squash Centre.
[also:
Press report]
All content © 2001 Squashtalk
by Martin Bronstein, Penang,
17 July 2001
All content ©
2001 Squashtalk. Photos: Ho Kah Yeow
-- All day three results posted on draw pages --
QUIBBEL ‘S COLLEGE PROSPECTS GETTING BETTER
Michelle
Quibell is already being briskly courted by various Ivy League universities,
all eager to have this lean young woman playing on their team. And by
the time this tournament is over they may have to up the stakes considerably.
She won her third round match today against a hometown girl Sally Looi, and did it in style, losing just five points in the 20 minute match. Perhaps she wouldn’t have been so focussed had it not been for the Malaysian manager Major Maniam, telling a newspaper that he felt Miss Looi could cause an upset by beating the American. Michelle read that and said ‘Oh yeah?’ or words to that affect. Miss Looi is out and Michelle is ready to face Egyptian Nadine Baghat in the fourth round.
SMART AND FOCUSSED
Quibell has already marked her name in the record books by winning the British Open under 17 title this year, the first American to do so. She comes from Atlanta, not seen as a hot-bed of squash, but she has good input from Tom Rumpler and Andre Maur. US team manager Aidan Harrison was full of praise for her performance, saying; "She played very well, very focussed. She plays the right shot at the right time because she’s very smart. She has five people to turn to for advice and she uses 20% of each one."
Smart
is right, she is on the honor role at school and has grades to get her
into any university she chooses. She has a lot of experience, starting
squash at the age of nine and tournaments from the age of 11. Of her own
performance she says: "I move well and I move fast." She wants to be a
pro squash player but: " I have to go to university, it’s part of our
culture. I shall play after I finish university."
Aidan, an Englishman, who has been at his club in Texas for eight years, is predicting that if Michelle reaches her quarter-final place against number two seed Omneya Abdel Kawy, she can take the Egyptian out.
IS KAWY’S FUTURE BEHIND HER?
Harrison has a point: an expert from Singapore, who shall remain nameless, said that Kawy’s large, er, how can I put this politely… centre of gravity…er… hips, are against her, as is the fact that she is very pigeon toed. When I asked, jokingly whether they should break her legs and reset them, he replied seriously that there was no choice if she is to get to the top. Ouch! He said that her unfortunate legs prevented her from moving speedily and while she has an exquisite array of shots – her backhand crosscourt cut into the nick is nothing short of miraculous – she can only hit those shots if she can reach the ball. If any player keeps the ball away from her, she’s lost. Harrison says Quibell can - and does – do that very well.
A GROSS OUT
US number two Amy Gross was unlucky enough to meet England’s Alison Waters and got wiped. Even the England coach Annette Pilling said she has never seen Waters play so well, she just jumped on anything. As Waters had put out another US player Alexandra Pearson, in the previous round, they are starting to say that Waters eats Americans for breakfast.
ENGLAND IN FULL CRY, EGYPTIANS REDUCED
Waters was one of four England players to get through to the fourth round while Egypt had their numbers reduced to just two, the aforementioned Kawy and Nadine Baghat, who will play Quibell in the fourth round.
Malaysia
also is down to two players and one of them Nicol David, is really quite
marvellous. This small - she must weight 100 pounds in her sheepskin overcoat
– 17 year old plays squash as though she has been on the circuit for ten
years. One manager said that David is now playing top twenties squash
and it is no exaggeration to say that she could beat at least three players
in the WISPA top ten.
She allies a huge range of shots with tremendous speed and anticipation and took a very useful Egyptian Sara Badt in 18 minutes for the loss of just two points. I haven’t seen another player in the tournament with her degree of sophistication and squash savvy. If there were bookmakers around, I’d put my apartment on her winning the title for a second time.
A FULL INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
You would have read by now that the new Olympic chief is a squash player, raising hopes that squash will get into the Olympics in our lifetime. To prove how international our sport is, just look at the last 16 lineup here: A couple of Malaysians, four limeys, one German, one Indian, one Dane, three Aussies, a Swiss, a couple of Egyptians and a Yank.
ANOTHER EGYPT SENSATION
Ranem El Walily won her first round match 9-1, 9-1, 9-1 before going out to Mexico’s Diana Costa. Miss El Walily is just 12 years old and already the Egyptians are saying she could be better than their reigning star Omneya Abdel Kawy. Her record is remarkable: winner of the British Under 13 title and runner up in the Under 15 in the same year. She won the German Pioneer under 15 title and then finished runner up in the Dutch under 17 championships. She was brought to Penang for the experience although from her record she is not short of that.
WHAT’S URDU FOR SHTUM?
The Indian Squash Rackets Federation have ordered their players not to talk to the press on the grounds that they are immature and may say the wrong things. This should present a bit of a problem to the tournament’s Press Officer, Raju Chainani. He’s from Bombay.
RESULTS THIRD ROUND
Nicol David (Mal) bt Sara Badt
(Egy) 9-2, 9-0, 9-0.
Tina Rix (Eng) bt Jessica Reese (Ger) 3-9, 10-8, 10-9, 9-7.
Alison Waters (Eng) bt Amy Gross (US) 9-1, 9-0, 9-2.
Kathrin Rohmuller (Ger) bt Kylie Lindsay (NZ) 7-9, 9-5, 9-5, 9-2.
Jenny Duncalf (Eng) bt Nicolette Fernandes( Guyana) 9-2, 9-1, 9-1.
Vaidehi Reddy (Ind) bt Felicity Goodall (Aus) 9-5, 9-7, 9-4.
Line Hansen (Den) bt Heba Maged (Egy) 9-3, 9-3, 9-6.
Laura Lengthorn (Eng) bt Diana Acosta (Mex) 9-4, 9-3, 9-1.
Lisa Camilleri (Aus) bt Ootean Teng (Mal) 9-7, 9-1, 9-4.
Kasey Brown (Aus) bt Joshna Chinappa (Ind) 9-3, 9-6, 9-0.
Manuela Zehnder (Swi) bt Jaclyn Hawkes (NZ) 9-0, 7-9, 9-2, 9-3.
Tricia Chuah (Mal) bt Frances Ho (HK) 9-3, 9-0, 9-1.
Michelle Quibell (US) bt Sally Looi (Mal) 9-0, 9-3,9-2.
Nadine Bahgate (Egy) bt Karen Lau (HK) 9-6, 9-2, 9-0.
Georgina Davis (Aus) bt Amelia Pittock (Aus) 2-9, 9-5, 10-8, 9-6.
Omneya Abdel Kawy (Egy) bt Hind Ossama (Egy) 9-1, 9-4, 9-1
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