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Tue 6th Jan, Day FIVE, FINALS:
G13 Yathreb Adel (Egy) bt
Salma Hani (Egy)
11/7, 11/8, 3/11, 11/8 (39m)
B13 Amr Aboul Souad (Egy) bt Kush Kumar
(Ind)
11/7, 7/11, 9/11, 11/9, 11/7 (41m)
G15 Nour El Sherbeny (Egy) bt Kanzy El
Defrawy (Egy)
11/6, 11/6, 10/12, 4/11, 11/4 (42m)
B15 Mahesh Mangaonkar (Ind) bt Oliver
Holland (Eng)
11/5, 7/11, 11/5, 12/10 (40m)
G17 Nour El Tayeb (Egy) bt Nouran El
Torky (Egy)
12/10, 11/8, 11/6 (24m)
B17 Amr Khalid Khalifa (Egy) bt Danish
Atlas Khan (Pak)
11/5, 11/3, 14/12 (40m)
G19 Wee Wern Low
(Mas) bt Dipika Pallikal (Ind)
11/2, 11/8, 8/11, 11/8 (42m)
B19 Mohamed El Shorbagy (Egy) bt Ivan Yuen (Mas)
11/8, 11/7, 13/11 (33m) |
GALLERIES
Draws & Results |
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Mohamed El Shorbagy
(Egy) bt Ivan Yuen (Mas)
11/8, 11/7, 13/11 (33m)
It's Shorbagy Again
Considering what he's achieved since taking the BJO U19 title here
last year - as a 16-year-old - it's not really a surprise that
Mohamed El Shorgagy has retained the title today in Sheffield.
 He's
been tested though - he could easily have lost his semi-final
yesterday, and although he was well on top for the first two games
against Ivan Yuen, the Malaysian staged a stirring recovery in the
third, making it much tougher for the world junior champion, and
earning himself four game-balls at 10/6.
Perhaps mindful of yesterday's experience, Shorbagy dug in, produced
some determined retrieving and clawed his way back to equality. This
was what he himself calls an "English game", no flashy winners, nice
and steady.
Ivan got one more opportunity, lost it on a stroke, then tinned
after a final long rally to give Shorbagy match ball. It was an
anti-climatic end as Ivan clean missed the service and spun around
to see the ball die in the back.
An undramatic finish, and no great show of emotion from Shorbagy
this time. Mission achieved, now he aims for number three in 2010
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G19
Wee Wern Low (Mas) bt Dipika Pallikal (Ind)
11/2, 11/8, 8/11, 11/8 (42m)
It's Wee Wern at last
It was her third appearance in a final, and her last, and Low Wee
Wern finally has a BJO title to her name.
In the early stages it looked as though it would be a comfortable
victory, with Dipika Pallikal, last year's U17 champion, misfiring.
Dipika's game often features lots of winners, and sometimes errors
too, and they were prevalent in the opening game.
 From
then on though it was a pretty even contest, Dipika more eager to
finish the rally than the Malaysian, but willing to engage in some
long, punishing affairs too when needed. The Indian was winning
points with her returns of serve - boasted or volleyed into the
opposite front corner nick, but was missing a few too.
Wee Wern took the second, moving clear from 8-all, but Dipika opened
and maintained a small gap throughout the third. The fourth was
level pegging, but from 6-all Wee Wern put in three winners, then
moved to match-ball 10-7 on a stroke.
Dipika saved the first with one of those service return boasts, but
Wee Wern returned the favour with a dying boast of her own on the
next rally and the long wait was over ... just in time.
"She wasn't really there in the first," said the new champion, "that
one was pretty easy. But she came back strongly in the second, then
I made a few errors at the start of the third so she took that. "I'm
feeling a bit of excitement at winning and a bit of relief that I've
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B17
Amr Khalid Khalifa (Egy) bt Danish Atlas Khan (Pak)
11/5, 11/3, 14/12 (40m)
Khalifi mainly in control
Two years on from winning the U15 title, Amr Khalid Khalifa duly
claimed the U17 title with an
impressive display in the final to deny Pakistan its one remaining
chance of a 2009 title.
Khalifa had the match pretty well under control in the first two
games. The players were fairly evenly matched, but the Egyptian just
seemed to have a bit more power, a bit more control, and his extra
height and reach was a factor too.
But Danish fought back well, recovering from a 4/1 deficit in the
third make it tough for Khalifa, and it developed into a real, close
contest. He earned himself a couple of game balls, and should have
taken the second one, tinning at the front of the court with his
opponent stranded.
After a long, patient rally Khalifa missed a long dropshot - one of
very few unforced errors he made today - to give Danish another
chance, but saved it. On his first match ball, after another long
rally, the Egyptian put in a volley drop, the Pakistani was denied a
let he felt he deserved, and another title was heading to Egypt.
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G17
Nour El Tayeb (Egy) bt Nouran El Torky (Egy)
12/10, 11/8, 11/6 (24m)
Nour makes it three
Nour El Tayeb, who won the U15 title in 2008 and the U13 crown in
2005, started the event as hot favourite, and maintained her record
of not dropping a game, but Nouran El Torky gave her a hard time on
the way.
Nour opened up a 9/6 lead in the first, but Nouran, a smaller
version of her elder sister Heba but just as fast and determined,
pulled it back and earned a game ball at 10/9. Nour has claimed some
notable scapls on the WISPA tour recently though, and that
experience no doubt helped her to avert the danger as she took the
game 12/10.
An 8/3 lead in the second evaporated too, as Nouran fought her way
back to parity at 8-all, but again the top seed found what was
necessary to win the game.
In the third too, 6/3 became 6-all, but Nouran's challenge finally
ran out of steam as Nour claimed the last few points and a third
title.
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B15
Mahesh Mangaonkar (Ind) bt Oliver Holland (Eng)
11/5, 7/11, 11/5, 12/10 (40m)
Indian delight as Holland denied
In a high-quality match India claimed their first Boys BJO title
since Saurav Ghosal took the U19 title in 2004.
Iliver Holland was England's first boys finalist for three years and
he contributed equally to a match of high quality, both players
moving and hitting superbly. In the final analysis it was probably
Holland's higher unforced error count that made the difference, but
that difference was marginal.
After losing the first, Holland moved clear from the middle of the
second to level matters. Mangaonkar's steadier play was enough to
see him take the third and regain the lead, but Holland fought back
again in the fourth, moving clear from 7-all to earn three game
balls.
The first was lost as the Indian played an inch-perfect boast, the
second on an unforced error, and the third after a huge, huge rally,
Holland's boast just clipping the tin.
The momentum with him, Mangaonkar played another precise boast to
reach match ball, then finished off another lung-busting rally with
a leaping volley kill ... a fitting end to a fine match.
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G15
Nour El Sherbeny (Egy) bt Kanzy El Defrawy (Egy)
11/6, 11/6, 10/12, 4/11, 11/4 (42m)
Three in a row for Sherbeny
After looking well in control for two and a half games, Nour El
Sherbeny looked to have lost the chance of an Under 15 title to go
with her Under 13 wins in the last two years.
 Seeded
two to compatriot Kanzy El Defrawy, Sherbeny took the first two
games with something to spare - the usually fiery Defrawy was a
little subdued.
7/3 up in the third, the hat-trick looked assure, but Kanzy started
to fight back, started playing with real determination, got to 10
first and took the game on extra points.
The top seed really started to get on top as she cruised through the
fourth, and Nour was definitely not happy as she came off court to
prepare for the decider. But a talking to from her father appeared
to do the trick and she was back in dominant mood from the start of
the fifth.
The final point was a stroke, no great celebrations but a lot of
relief from the Sherbeny corner as she came off court a triple
champion ... |
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B13
Amr Aboul Souad (Egy) bt Kush Kumar (Ind)
11/7, 7/11, 9/11, 11/9, 11/7 (41m)
First blood to Egypt
 Egypt
claimed the first title on finals day - it won't be their last -
when Amr Aboul Souad triumphed in an exciting Boys U13 final that
had the masses of Indian and Egyptian supporters screaming and
shouting for all they were worth.
Kush Kumar, winner of last week's Scottish title, started the better
in the first four games - he led the first 7/3 but lost it 7/11, led
the second 7/3 but held on to take it 11/9, did exactly the same in
the third, and earned yet another 7/3 lead in the fourth only to
lose that one 11/9 as well!
However it was the Egyptian who started the decider the better,
opening up a 4/1 lead and maintaining the gap until the final shot
... whereupon Abbeydale's court seven exploded ... |
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