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All content © 2001 Squashtalk
by Howard Harding, London,
19 July 2001
All content ©
2001 Squashtalk
DOMESTIC HOPES HIGH IN PENANG
WORLD JUNIORS
Hopes of an all-Malaysian final in the Women's World Junior Squash Championships
were kept alive after today's (Thursday) quarter-finals in Penang when
both top seed Nicol David, playing in front of an exuberant crowd in her
hometown, and 4th seed Tricia Chuah, claimed their anticipated places
in Friday's semi-finals.
Two large TV screens were installed at the Penang International Squash Centre to provide closed circuit viewing for Malaysian squash fans who were unable to be accommodated in the championship courts' conventional seating. Action from Friday's semi-finals onwards will be staged at the nearby 10,000 seater Penang International Sports Arena.
David, the defending champion who is bidding to become the first person ever to retain the women's world junior title, cruised to an emphatic 9-0 9-0 9-3 victory over Germany's Kathrin Rohrmuller in just 15 minutes. The 17-year-old 'pocket dynamite', who reached the last eight as a thirteen-year-old four years ago before claiming the title without dropping a single game in 1999, has spent little more than an hour on the Penang courts this week in five matches in which she has conceded just nine points.
David will meet England's European Junior Champion Jenny Duncalf, who repeated her European final win over her compatriot Laura-Jane Lengthorn in a 10-8 9-4 8-10 9-3 scoreline. The third seed's 76-minute win was the longest mach of the championship to date. Malaysia's fourth seed Tricia Chuah, the talented Scottish Junior Open champion who has spent most of her career to date in the shadow of compatriot Nicol David, ended unseeded Australian Kasey Brown's run with a 9-3 9-3 9-4 victory in 33 minutes.
"I was a little unsure today because I don't know how she plays," said Chuah. "I think I played better today than earlier in the week because the crowd helped me, but before they made me nervous." Chuah faces the youngest player left in the tournament in the semi-finals. British U-19 Junior Open champion Omneya Abdel Kawy - just 15 years old, yet ranked 26 in the WISPA world list - overcame a strong test by the USA's British U-17 Junior Open champion Michelle Quibell in the first game before coasting to a 10-8 9-0 9-2 win.
WORLD SQUASH NEWS RESULTS:
Women's World Junior Individual Squash Championship, Penang, Malaysia
Quarter-finals:
[1] Nicol David (MAS) bt [5/8] Kathrin Rohrmuller (GER) 9-0 9-0 9-3 (15m)
[3] Jenny Duncalf (ENG) bt [5/8] Laura-Jane Lengthorn (ENG) 10-8 9-4 8-10
9-3 (76m) [4] Tricia Chuah (MAS) bt Kasey Brown (AUS) 9-3 9-3 9-4 (33m)
[2] Omneya Abdel Kawy (EGY) bt [5/8] Michelle Quibell (USA) 10-8 9-0 9-2
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