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 WSF
3rd World Doubles Championships
09-13 Jan 2006, Melbourne, Australia |
Men's Silver |
Men's Bronze |
Kiwi Medallists |
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13th Jan: Finals
Full results, incl. playoffs
Men’s Final:
[1] Anthony Ricketts & Stewart Boswell (AUS) bt [2] Dan Jenson &
Joseph Kneipp (AUS)
7/9, 4/9, 9/4, 9/7, 9/5
Women’s Final:
[3/4] Shelley Kitchen & Tamsyn Leevey (NZL) bt [5/8] Robyn Cooper
& Sarah Fitz-Gerald (AUS)
9/6, 10/8, 9/6
Mixed Final:
[1] Rachael Grinham & Joseph Kneipp (AUS) bt [5/8] Amelia Pittock
& Cameron Pilley (AUS)
9/6, 9/1, 5/9, 9/4
Men's BRONZE MEDAL PLAYOFF:
Campbell Grayson/Martin Knight (NZL) bt Cameron White/Cameron
Pilley (AUS)
9/1, 9/5, 1/9, 8/10, 9/7
Mixed BRONZE MEDAL PLAYOFF:
Lara Heta/Callum O'Brien (NZ) bt Shelley Kitchen/Daniel
Sharplin (NZ) by default.
Women's BRONZE MEDAL PLAYOFF:
Louise Crome & Lara Heta (NZL) bt Rachael Grinham & Amanda
Hopps (AUS)
4/9, 10/12, 10/8, 9/4, 9/5
Full
results
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13-Jan, Finals:
TASMAN NEIGHBOURS SHARE WORLD DOUBLES
SPOILS
Tasman neighbours Australia and New Zealand shared the major
spoils on the final day at the 3rd World Doubles Squash
Championships held at the Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre.Ricketts & Boswell
Comeback for Men's Title
 Australia
made it a double gold championship when top seeded Anthony
Ricketts and Stewart Boswell recovered from two games to love down
to defeat fellow Aussies and second seeded Dan Jenson and Joseph
Kneipp 7/9, 4/9, 9/4, 9/7, 9/5, to take the Men’s Doubles crown.
Kiwis take Women's
 New
Zealand struck gold in the Women’s Doubles final when 3/4
seeded Kiwis Shelley Kitchen and Tamsyn Leevey overcame the giant
killers of the tournament Sarah Fitz-Gerald and Robyn Cooper 9/6,
10/8, 9/6.
Aussie One-Two in Mixed
Australia won both gold and silver in the Mixed event with
Australian Open Champion, Rachael Grinham and former World No.10,
Joseph Kneipp outgunning Aussie youngsters Amelia Pittock and
Cameron Pilley 9/6, 9/1, 5/9, 9/4, although Grinham was required
to leave the court at 7/4 in the final game with a leg injury.
After a lengthy break to consider their options the No.1 seeds
resumed play to take the next two points and the world Mixed
title.
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Women's Gold for
New Zealand
Gary Denvir reports
Shelley Kitchen and Tamsyn Leevey have swept to a
commanding victory in the final of the women's doubles, beating
the vastly experienced Australian pairing of Robyn Cooper and
Sarah Fitz-Gerald 9/6 10/8 9/6 in the final. It completes a
magnificent tournament for the kiwi team, who also have three
bronze medals to show for their efforts.
Lara Heta and Callum O'Brien finished third in the mixed
event, after Shelley Kitchen and Daniel Sharplin defaulted the
playoff. Sharplin had been a late call-up in the semis, replacing
Glen Wilson who pulled up with an adductor strain.
Lara Heta also picked up a second bronze in the women's doubles,
teaming up with Louise Crome to edge out Australia's Rachel
Grinham and Amanda Hopps in five.
And the young men's doubles pairing of Campbell Grayson and
Martin Knight have capped off their sensational tournament
with a bronze medal, beating Australia's Cameron White and Cameron
Pilley in five games.
The kiwi players will now head home and briefly refocus their
attention on their singles careers, before regrouping in Auckland
to prepare for March's Commonwealth Games at the same Melbourne
venue.
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Men's Semis:
Anthony Ricketts/Stewart Boswell (AUS) bt Campbell
Grayson/Martin Knight (NZL)
9/4, 9/7, 9/7
Dan Jenson/Joe Kneipp (AUS) bt Cameron White/Cameron Pilley (AUS)
7/9, 9/7, 5/9, 11/9, 9/4
Women's Semis:
Robyn Cooper/Sarah Fitz-Gerald (AUS) bt Rachael Grinham/Amanda
Hopps (AUS) 6/9, 12/10, 9/5,
4/9, 9/6
Shelley Kitchen/Tamsyn Leevey (NZL) bt Lara Heta/Louise Crome (NZL)
9/6, 11/9, 7/9, 1/9, 9/7
Mixed Semis:
Amelia Pittock/Cameron Pilley (AUS) bt Shelley
Kitchen/Daniel Sharplin (NZL)
11/9, 7/9, 10/12, 9/6, 9/6
Rachel Grinham/Joseph Kneipp (AUS) bt Lara Heta/Callum O'Brien (NZL)
10/8, 15/13, 9/6
NB. Lara Heta and Callum O'Brien will receive the bronze
medal with Kitchen and Sharplin defaulting the playoff.
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AUSSIES ON TOP IN MELBOURNE
Gary Denvir reports...
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 AUSSIE
VETERANS
CAUSE UPSET
Manchester Singles gold medallist, Sarah Fitz-Gerald and
former Aussie rep Robyn Cooper staged the biggest upset on
semi finals day of the 3rd World Doubles Championships, when they
removed the top seeded Aussie duo of Rachael Grinham and Amanda
Hopps in an enthralling 5 game encounter 6/9, 12/10, 9/5, 4/9,
9/6, in what was described by British Open promoter Paul Walters
as the best women’s doubles match he had ever seen.
“Grinham and Hopps were fantastic yet remarkably lost to a pairing
who played exciting doubles and virtually did not make an error,”
said Walters.
The
Aussie veterans final opponents are New Zealander’s Shelley
Kitchen and Tamsyn Leevey who caused a mini upset defeating
fellow Kiwis second seeded Louise Crome and Lara Heta 9/6, 11/9,
7/9, 1/9, 9/7, reversing the result of their semifinal meeting at
last year's world champs..
AN AUSTRALIAN AFFAIR
The giant killing run of Campbell Grayson and Martin Knight has
come to an end in the men's doubles, with the kiwi pair beaten 9/4
9/7 9/7 by Australia's top seeded Anthony Ricketts and Stewart
Boswell.
They'll meet seed number two Dan Jenson and Joe Kneipp, who
defeated another Australian pair of Camerons, White & Pilley, in
five games. |
MIXED DOUBLES
 The
Mixed Doubles final will be an all Australian affair. Australian
Open Singles champion Rachael Grinham and doubles
specialist Joseph Kneipp proved too powerful for the young
Kiwi duo Lara Heta and Callum O’Brien winning 10/8, 15/13, 9/6.
In the other semi final Australian Open Singles Runner-up, New
Zealand's mixed doubles hopes took a major blow earlier in the day,
with Commonwealth Games champion Glen Wilson ruled out with an
abductor strain. Wilson is on his way back to Auckland for
treatment, but is expected to be for March's Games in Melbourne.
 Daniel
Sharplin stepped in as Shelley Kitchen's partner in Wilson's
absence, with the kiwi pair very nearly pulling off a stunning win,
going down in five to Australians Amelia Pittock and Cameron
Pilley 11/9, 7/9, 10/12, 9/6, 9/6.
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Australian Coach Bryon Davis with
Melissa Martin & Amelia Pittock |
Robyn Cooper & Sarah Fitz-Gerald
make the women's final |
11-Jan,
Day THREE:
Aussies & Kiwis Dominate
Paul Vere reports from
Melbourne
 Tasman neighbours Australia and New Zealand dominated the quarter
finals day at the 3rd World Doubles Squash Championships with the
two countries claiming all twelve semi finals berths.
Men's Marathon
 The highlight of the day was the historic encounter between the
Kiwis, Campbell Grayson and Martin Knight and the South Africans,
Rodney Durbach and Adrian Hansen.
Organisers have been advised that this gruelling two hour and
thirty six minute contest is the longest doubles match ever
played at a major international championship, which saw the unseeded
Kiwi youngsters prevailing 9/5, 9/6, 6/9, 13/15, 9/6.
Aussie Champs Prosper
Australian Open singles champions Anthony Ricketts and Rachael
Grinham continued on their merry way in the same gender events.
Grinham and Amanda Hopps demolished Aussie duo of Lisa
Camelleri and Kelly Fowler 9/1, 9/6, 9/3, with Ricketts and first
time partner Stewart Boswell accounting for fellow Aussies Paul
Price and Tim Manning 9/3, 9/5, 9/5.
Fitz makes the Semis
 The major upset of the day was five times World Open champion,
Sarah Fitz-Gerald teamed with former Australian representative
Robyn
Cooper ousting third seeds Australian pair, Amelia Pittock and
Melissa Martin, to set up a semi final clash with the top seeded
Grinham and Hopps.
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11-Jan, Quarters:
Kiwis Prosper in Quarters ...
Gary Denvir
reports
The New Zealand team continues to prosper at the World Doubles
Squash Championships in Melbourne.
Five of the six kiwi combinations have made it through to the
semifinals of their respective events.
Campbell Grayson and Martin Knight continue to be the surprise
package in the men's doubles, winning through to the last four after
an epic battle in the quarterfinals.
The kiwi pair downed South
Africa's Rodney Durbach and Adrian Hansen 9/5 9/6 6/9 13/15 9/6 in a
gruelling two and a half hour clash.
New Zealand is guaranteed at least a silver medal in the women's
doubles, after the two kiwi combinations won through to the
semifinals, where they've been drawn to face each other.
Shelley
Kitchen and Tamsyn Leevey won their quarterfinal in five, while Lara
Heta and Louise Crome won in four.
Kitchen & LeeveyNew Zealand's two mixed doubles combinations are also through to the
last four, with Shelley Kitchen and Glen Wilson winning in straight
games while Lara Heta and Callum O'Brien bounced back from a game
down to win 3/1.
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 "Squash
Australia is very pleased with the preparations for the 3rd
World Doubles.
"The event will
provide an opportunity for the public to view some of the world's
best squash athletes, men and women, playing on some of the most
modern courts in the world.
"The eleven nations that will be participating in the Championship
are all sending their top available athletes who will produce the
best Doubles competition seen for many years at this elite level.
"This will be a great occasion for World Squash as the event will be
preceded by the Australian Open and then followed a couple of months
later by the Commonwealth Games Squash.
"Squash Australia and the State of Victoria are looking forward
in anticipation to conducting this event in January 2006."
Norman Fry
Squash Australia CEO |
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29-Dec:
AUSSIES AIM FOR
DOUBLES CLEAN SWEEP
 Hosts Australia provide the top seeds in all three events for the
third World Doubles Championship in Melbourne, with Anthony
Ricketts & Stewart Boswell, Rachael Grinham & Amanda Hopps
and Grinham and Joe Kneipp favourites to collect gold,
retaining the titles Australia won in
Chennai in 2004.
Ricketts and Boswell will resume their partnership from the 2002
Commonwealth Games in Manchester, where they won the silver medal,
while Grinham will attempt to retain her titles with two new
partners.
The competition will take place on the renovated courts at
Melbourne's Sports and Aquatic Centre, which will also be used for
the Commonwealth Games in March.
Pool matches will be played on Mon/Tue 9th and 10th January, with
knockout stages to follow. |
More from Melbourne
AUSSIES
RULE
IN CHENNAI |
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10-Nov-05:
White Bids For
Hometown Success
In Defence of World Doubles Title
 After winning the Men's title last December in India, Australia's
Cameron White is looking
forward to defending the crown in his home town of Melbourne when
the WSF World Doubles Squash
Championships take place in the Victorian capital next
January.
Teams from eleven countries will compete in the 3rd World Doubles
Championships at the Melbourne
Sports and Aquatic Centre from 9-13 January. The
championships, backed by the Commonwealth Games Federation, are a
preparation event for the 2006
Commonwealth Games - which will also be staged in the
sporting capital of Australia in March.
White, who won the Men's Doubles gold medal in Chennai with
Byron Davis, will be
partnered by fellow Melburnian Paul
Price in January. The hosts will be represented by three
pairs in each of the three competitions – the Men's, Women's and
Mixed Doubles.
Malaysia's world No3 Nicol David,
who won the Mixed Doubles silver medal in the 2002 Commonwealth
Games in England, will again partner
Ong Beng Hee in a bid to win
world championships gold for the first time in Melbourne.
Indian pair Ritwik Bhattacharya
and Saurav Ghosal,
runners-up in the Men's event in Chennai, will be hoping to go one
better in January.
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