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16-Sep, Finals:
[1] Rebecca Chiu (Hkg) bt [2]
Sharon Wee (Mas)
7/9, 9/4, 9/3, 9/2 (34m)
[1] Mike Corren (Aus) bt [4] Dick Lau (Hkg)
12/10, 12/10, 11/9 (43m)
Hat-trick for Chiu as
Corren squeezes home
Rebecca Chiu delighted the home fans at the Hong Kong squash
centre as she collected her third successive Crocodile Cup victory,
beating Malaysia's Sharon Wee in four games in the final.
The victory marks 28-year-old Chiu's 13th career title and her fifth in
2007.
 In
the men's final Australian top seed Mike Corren maintained his
record of winning the close games ("I still think about 15-scoring where
the game didn't really start until 10-all!") as he edged out Hong Kong
national champion Dick Lau in a nail-biting three game encounter.
Corren, 33, is making a comeback after serious injury put his career on
hold, claimed his 15th career PSA title to go with a clutch of
challenger titles he has collected this year in New Zealand, as well as
the Australain National title he claimed in July.
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Men's Draw
Women's Draw
2007 Champion
2006 Event
2005 Event |
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15-Sep, Semis:
HK
make both finals
Hosts Hong Kong will be represented in both finals, as defending
champion Rebecca Chiu came through in straight games against Peta
Hughes, and Dick Lau staged a remarkable recovery from 2-0 down
to beat HK number one Wai Hang Wong.
Lau will meet top seed Mike Corren in the final, the Australian
winning a tight four-game match against Kamran Khan.
Malaysia's Sharon Wee denied hopes of an all-HK women's final
when she beat Christina Mak 3/1 in the final match of the day. |
14-Sep, Quarters:
Top
three in men's quarters
Top seed Mike Corren came through to
the semi-finals with a straight-games win over qualifier Choong Kam Hing
(taking two 'tie-break' games, as is his wont) and will meet another
Malaysian, Kamran Khan, for a place in the final after Khan
outsed yesterday's giant-killer Roger Ngan.
The other semi-final will be an all-HK affair between the reigning
national champion Dick Lau and national number one Wai Hang
Wong, seeded three and two for this event.
It's a similar story in the women's event, where the top four seeds all
won their quarter-finals. Hong Kong's Rebecca Chiu and
Christina Mak both won in straight games and Chiu, the defending
champion, will meet Australia's Peta Hughes for a place in the
final while Mak faces second seed Sharon Wee, who needed the full
five games to overcome KH junior Annie Au.
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Women's Draw
HK Nationals 2007 |
Dick Lau and Wai Hang
Wong, set for a semi-final showdown ... |
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13-Sep, Round One:
Chiu Chases Fifth Title Of The Year
Rebecca Chiu made a confident start in her
bid to win a fifth WISPA title of the
year - and the second on home soil - when she dismissed Malaysian
qualifier Siti Munirah Jusoh in straight games in the first round
of the Crocodile Squash Challenge Cup in Hong Kong.
The
former Asian Games champion's 9-3, 9-1, 9-1 win takes her into a
quarter-finals clash with compatriot Elise Ng, who beat Japan's
Sachiko Shinta 9-5, 9-6, 9-2.
There
will be Hong Kong interest in two of the other three quarter-finals of
the WISPA Tour 10 event after No3 seed Christina Mak beat South
Korean qualifier Sun-Mi Song 9-6, 9-6, 9-4 and eighth seed
Annie Au battled to a 9-6, 5-9, 9-5, 9-5 victory over Australian
Lisa Camilleri.
There
were upsets aplenty in the men's Satellite event: Local star Roger
Ngan produced the biggest shock by defeating third-seeded Malaysian
Nafzahizam Adnan 12-10, 1-11, 12-10,
11-9 in 50 minutes.
Malaysia's No5 seed Elvinn Keo also made an early exit - beaten
11-7, 13-11, 10-12,
9-11, 11-6 by unseeded compatriot Muhammad Azfar Azan.
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 Crocodile
Squash Challenge Cup 2007
12-16 Sep, Hong Kong Squash Centre, $14k |
Round One
Sept 13 |
Quarters
Sept 14 |
Semis
Sept 15 |
Final
Sept 16 |
[1] Rebecca Chiu (Hkg)
9/3, 9/1, 9/1 (25m)
[Q] Siti Munirah Jusoh (Mas) |
Rebecca Chiu
9/0, 9/7, 9/2 (37m)
Elise Ng |
Rebecca Chiu
9/7, 9/5, 9/6 (36m)
Peta Hughes |
Rebecca Chiu
Sharon Wee |
[5] Elise Ng (Hkg)
9/5, 9/6, 9/2 (33m)
Sachiko Shinta (Jpn) |
[4] Peta Hughes (Aus)
9/2, 9/3, 9/2 (30m)
[Q] Tong Tsz-Wing (Hkg) |
Peta Hughes
9/7, 9/2, 1/9, 9/7 (40m)
Delia Arnold |
[6] Delia Arnold (Mas)
9/4, 9/4, 2/9, 7/9, 9/7 (56m)
[Q] Joey Chan (Hkg) |
Eun Ok Park (Kor)
9/2, 10/8, 2/9, 7/9, 9/0 (55m)
[7] Lim Yoke Wah (Mas) |
Lim Yoke Wah
9/5, 9/3, 9/2 (37m)
Christina Mak |
Christina Mak
9/6, 5/9, 10/9, 9/4 (41m)
Sharon Wee |
[Q] Song Sun-Mi (Kor)
9/6, 9/6, 9/4 (27m)
[3] Christina Mak (Hkg) |
Lisa Camilleri (Aus)
9/6, 5/9, 9/5, 9/5 (50m)
[8] Annie Au (Hkg) |
Annie Au
6/9, 10/8, 9/2, 6/9, 9/4 (66m)
Sharon Wee |
Mami Nishio (Jpn)
9/3, 9/6, 9/3 (27m)
[2] Sharon Wee (Mas) |
Qualifying Finals:
Siti Munirah Jusoh (Mas) bt Leung Shin-Nga (Hkg)
3/9, 10/8, 9/7, 9/3
Tong Tsz-Wing (Hkg) bt Dorothy Ko (Hkg)
9/0, 4/9, 9/3, 9/4
Song Sun-Mi (Kor) bt Nabilla Ariffin (Mas)
9/4, 9/2, 9/2
Joey Chan (Hkg) bt Pushppa Devi (Mas)
9/1, 9/2, 9/4
Women's Qualifying
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Crocodile
Squash Challenge Cup 2007
12-16 Sep, Hong Kong Squash Centre, $4k |
Round One
Sept 13 |
Quarters
Sept 14 |
Semis
Sept 15 |
Final
Sept 16 |
[1] Mike Corren (Aus)
13/11, 11/5, 11/9 (25m)
[Q] Choong Kam Hing (Mas) |
Mike Corren
11/8, 14/12, 15/13 (30m)
Yasunori Ishiwata |
Mike Corren
12/10, 8/11, 11/7, 11/5 (45m)
Kamran Khan |
Mike Corren
Dick Lau |
[7] Joe Millman (Eng)
11/4, 11/3, 11/2 (33m)
Yasunori Ishiwata (Jpn) |
[3] Nafzahizam Adnan (Mas)
12/10, 1/11, 12/10, 11/9 (50m)
Roger Ngan (Hkg) |
Roger Ngan
11/7, 11/9, 11/8 (31m)
Kamran Khan |
[8] Kamran Khan (Mas)
11/6, 11/5, 11/6 (28m)
[Q] Chiu Ho Fai (Hkg) |
Muhammad Azfar Azan (Mas)
11/7, 13/11, 10/12, 9/11, 11/6 (54m)
[5] Elvinn Keo (Mas) |
Muhammad Azfar Azan
11/6, 11/7, 11/1 (28m)
Dick Lau |
Dick Lau
5/11, 6/11, 11/3, 11/6, 13/11 (69m)
Wai Hang Wong |
[Q] Yuta Fukui (Jpn)
11/3, 11/3, 11/9 (28m)
[4] Dick Lau (Hkg) |
[Q] Max Lee (Hkg)
13/11, 11/6, 8/11, 11/6 (46m)
[6] Muhd Asyraf Azan (Mas) |
Muhd Asyraf Azan
11/1, 11/8, 11/9 (28m)
Wai Hang Wong |
Anson Kwong (Hkg)
9/11, 11/5, 6/11, 11/6, 14/12 (49m)
[2] Wai Hang Wong (Hkg) |
Qualifying Finals:
Choong Kam-Hing (Mas) bt Huang Cheng Yao (Tpe) 11/6,
11/9, 5/11, 11/4
Chiu Ho-Fai (Hkg) bt Mithran Selvaratnam (Mas)
11/8, 13/11, 11/5, 4/11, 11/4
Yuta Fukuki (Jpn) bt Valentino Bong (Mas)
11/6, 11/4, 6/11, 11/6
Max Lee (Hkg) bt Kim Dong Woo (Kor)
11/9, 12/14, 11/9, 11/6
Men's Qualifying
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Chiu
well prepared to
retain Crocodile Cup
Organized by Hong Kong Squash, subvented by Leisure and Cultural
Services Department, sanctioned by the Women’s WISPA and the Men's PSA
3rd “Crocodile Squash Challenge Cup 2007” is set to welcome and bring
world-class men and women players from around the world to Hong Kong for
the 16-draw competition with the total prize money of HKD160,000, to be
held at the Hong Kong Squash Centre on September 12 – 16.
This is the third time that Crocodile Garments Ltd have sponsored
a world top satellite event in HK. The event is an ideal competition for
HK’s young up-coming players as well as the Asian Junior Girls Team Gold
Medallist, Annie Au Wing-chi, Leung Shin-nga, Joey Chan Ho-ling and
Chiu Ka-kei to greatly benefit by experiencing exposure to overseas
players from Australia, Korea, Malaysia, Japan, etc. Both men’s and
women’s qualifying round commences on 12th September at the HK Squash
Centre at 12nn.
The competition will also help the HK senior players to gain valuable
world ranking points in both WISPA and PSA event. Asian Games Silver
Medalist Rebecca Chiu Wing-yin will be the top seed in the
Women’s main draw. With full of home crowd support, Chiu will fight for
best to retain the title in third times. Together with Chiu, Asian Games
Bronze Medalist Christina Mak Pui-hin and HK Closed Champion Dick
Lau Siu-wai will also meet one of the qualifiers in the first round on
13th September. Other local players such as second seed Wong Wai-hang
will meet locals Anson Kwong Yu-shun at 5.45pm in the first
round, Roger Ngan Lun-cheung will meet seeded no. 3 Malaysia’s
Nafzahizam Adnan, the Asian Junior Champion Annie Au Wing-chi
will meet Aussie’s Lisa Camilleri while Elise Ng Jia-yunn will
face Japan’s Sachiko Shinta.
 "Special
thanks go to our title sponsor Crocodile Garments Ltd. who are joining
us for the second time in what we hope will be a long and successful
partnership in our ongoing mission to develop and promote the wonderful
game of squash.
"Thanks also go to Leisure & Cultural Services Department for their
ongoing subvention and other supporting sponsor: Swire Coca-Cola HK,
without whose contribution, this tournament would not be such an all
round success."
Chairman of Hong Kong Squash |
 "It
is the honor and gratitude that Crocodile is the third year to be invited
as title-sponsor of this world-class squash tournament.
"We wish the tournament a great prosperity and all participants including
players, spectators and officials can enjoy in this international event."
Chairman & CEO of Crocodile Garments Ltd
2006 Event
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