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European Individual Championships 2007
13-16 June, Royan, France |
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Finals & Playoffs:
Men's Draw
Women's Draw
Finals:
[2] Jenny Duncalf (Eng) bt [1] Tania Bailey (Eng)
9/5, 3/9, 9/7, 9/5
[1] Gregory Gaultier (Fra) bt [5/8] Renan Lavigne (Fra)
9/0, 9/1, 9/1
3rd/4th:
[3/4] Isabelle Stoehr (Fra) bt [3/4] Annelize Naude (Ned)
w/o
[2] Thierry Lincou (Fra) bt [3/4] Peter Barker (Eng)
9/1, 9/7, 9/1 |
Jenny & Greg ... still the champs
It was an all-English final, with defending champion Jenny Duncalf
facing her higher-seeded compatriot Tania Bailey. When they met in
the British Nationals Jenny's win ended Tania's reign, but she
didn't allow the tables to be turned today as she retained her title
and collected another gold medal.
For Gregory Gaultier a fourth European title beckoned, and it came
quickly enough, with fellow Frenchman Renan Lavigne unable to repeat
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SiteSquash.com Quote Box |
 "I
took a terrible start in the first, 5/0 down, but I seemed to have
had the same start in my last three matches !
"Tania and I were set on getting to the final, it was very important
to us, so that was achieved.
"Also, I'm very glad to keep my title, two years in a row now, but
also very happy to beat Tania in the final..."
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 "Tactically,
I played well today, I could feel he was very tired from his week,
so I tried to push him in the first. He played very well in the
game, stuck with it, but after that, he didn't have much left.
"I played better than yesterday, as yesterday I was forcing my
shots, I had to hit very hard, whereas today the shots were more
fluid, more natural.
"I'm glad we had an event like that in France, and the immense
success shows that we have the resources to host more and more
events of the kind...."
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Semi-Finals:
Men's Draw
Women's Draw
[1] Tania Bailey (Eng) bt [3/4] Isabelle Stoehr (Fra)
9/4, 9/3, 9/7
[2] Jenny Duncalf (Eng) bt [3/4] Annelize Naude (Ned)
9/7, 9/1, 9/2
[1] Gregory Gaultier (Fra) bt [5/8] Peter Barker (Eng)
2/9, 9/2, 9/1, 9/5
[5/8] Renan Lavigne (Fra) bt [2] Thierry Lincou (Fra)
6/9, 9/5, 0/9, 9/2, 9/3 |
As Expected ... sort of
As expected, both champions will defend their titles tomorrow, and
one French and one English winner is guaranteed. Except that it
didn't quite go entirely to plan ...
The women's final will be between England's top seeds Tania
Bailey and Jenny Duncalf. Bailey started well, then held
off a strong challenge from local favourite Isabelle Stoehr, coming
from behind in the third to seal a straight-games win.
Defending champion Duncalf did it the other way round, overcoming a
first-game deficit before going on to comfortably take the next two
against Annelize Naude.
The men's title is guaranteed to stay in French hands for the fourth
successive year, but three-time champion Gregory Gaultier
faces unexpected opposition in the final.
On fire in the quarter-finals, Gaultier took his time to get going
tonight, but the first game was all that England's Peter Barker
could muster.
Renan Lavigne scored what was probably his best-ever win in
the quarters in beating Nick Matthew, but that was a short-lived
record as he won another five-game tussle, this time against
second-seeded compatriot Thierry Lincou.
Renan was on the podium last time in Budapest, in third place. He's
guaranteed at least one better tomorrow ... |
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 "In
the third, she played very well, and when she is, she is very
difficult to beat, and if you give her anything in the racquet, she
is very dangerous but recently, I’ve been playing well, so I knew
that if I was to play well and move well, I was going to be able to
win.
"It will be ok for my ankle, it just went under me, and it went on
going when it should have stopped! The bandage is there to prevent
too much movement and also the swelling."
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 "Yes,
I’ve changed my game, I attack more, but I didn’t have the choice
really, the game is faster, the players are attacking much more, and
there is no other way to challenge them.
"Also, it used to take me too much energy to get rid of the players
that were below my level, and I didn’t have enough left in the tank
to threaten the top guys.
"In the third, I was a bit tired, but so was he at times, let’s face
it, none of us is actually that fit at the moment, and there were
some waves of tiredness that would overcome us at some time or
another.
"I’m playing well at the moment, my aim is to reach the top 10 soon,
and I feel now that I’m capable, instead of just hopeful…"
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 "I’m
shared between my happiness of winning and my sadness of seeing
Thierry losing, he is such a great champion, and it’s unusual to see
him lose like that.
"In the third, I thought to myself that he was just too good, it’s
not that I was playing badly at all, he was just above me.
"But in the fourth, I took an excellent start, and that was I think
the turning point. In the fifth, I played one point after the other,
Thierry never let go, but I just went for shots I do not normally go
for, and everything went in…"
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An All-French Podium?
 From
what we hear a lot of the scheduled playoff matches are being
conceded, and while some matches are taking place we have no news of
draws or results (maybe at the end of the event, fingers crossed).
But, should Thierry Lincou play and beat Peter Barker in the men's
3rd/4th place match we'll be looking at an all-French podium, which
would no doubt make for a noisy closing ceremony.
A fourth medal could be France's too, with Isabelle Stoehr (who took
the bronze in Prague last year) due to meet Annelize Naude in the
women's 3rd/4th place match.
LATEST: Stoehr bt Naude, walkover.
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14-Jun, Day Two:
So close for Balbo & Tenant,
but Renan does the trick ...
A busy day in Royan, with two
rounds in both events which left just four men and four women still
in contention - and four from hosts France.
On court all went to plan in the morning session as the top
eight seeds in the men's and women's events all went through to the
quarter-finals.
Two Frenchmen almost created stunning upsets against their English
3/4 seeded opponents though, as Julien Balbo came from two
games down to push Nick Matthew to a decider, and Romain Tenant
took a 2-1 lead over Adrian Grant before subsiding in the final two
games.
So the men's quarter-finals featured three Frenchmen and
three Englishmen, while it was the Dutch who provided a trio in the
women's quarters.
True to form, the first quarter-final featured a Frenchman
and it went to five. This time though there was no escape for
Matthew as Renan Lavigne carried it through to create a
stunning upset against the world number eight, surely one of Renan's
beat wins, and he now meets Thierry Lincou in an all-French
semi-final.
The all-English quarter-final produced an upset too, as Peter
Barker ended Adrian Grant's challenge in straight games. Barker
now meets three-time champion Gregory Gaultier, whose match
against LJ Anjema concluded the day's play as midnight approached.
No upsets in the women's quarters, with the top four seeds all
comfortably through with top seed Tania Bailey and defending
champion Jenny Duncalf still on course for an all-English
final.
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Glass Court Floored
The first match on the glass court today was the all-French affair
between Thierry Lincou and Mathieu Castagnet. With Lincou leading
two-nil, the second seed was simply walking in between points when
there was a loud crack as one of the glass floor panels broke ...
Play was suspended and the remaining first session matches scheduled
for the glass court were moved to the Espace Club. Meanwhile a new
panel was ordered from Germany, which it is hoped should be
available for the final, and in the meantime a wooden panel is being
installed to get play going again as soon as possible.
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Men's Quarters:
Gregory Gaultier
bt Laurens Jan Anjema
9/0, 9/1, 9/3
Peter Barker bt Adrian Grant
9/0, 9/3, 9/6
Renan Lavigne bt Nick Matthew
7/9, 9/6, 9/6, 5/9, 9/7
Thierry Lincou bt Borja Golan
3/9, 9/1, 9/7, 10/8 |
Women's Quarters:
Tania Bailey bt Pamela Pancis
9/0, 9/2, 9/2
Isabelle Stoehr bt Orla Noom
9/1, 6/9, 9/0, 9/2
Annelize Naude bt Annabelle Romedenne
9/3, 9/4, 9/6
Jenny Duncalf bt Margriet Huisman
9/7, 9/0, 9/0 |
13-Jun, Day One:
EIC under way in Royan
No sweat for top eight ...
The first day of action in Royan started with the men's and women's
qualifying rounds. There were quite a few quick matches, as
expected, with only one of the men's matches going beyond three
games, while the Czech Republic's women's representatives were all
involved in tight, long struggles.
Zuzana Vackova and Olga Ertlova both won in four, but
in the longest match of the day France's Charlotte Delsinne
denied the Czechs a hat-trick as she edged past Jana Smeralova in
five games.
The men's first round took place in the evening, split between the
Espace Squash Club and the Glass Court, which is housed in a huge
tent in the centre of town, near the beach and the local stadium.
France's top seeds Gregory Gaultier and Thierry
Lincou returned to action after injury layoffs, both recording
comfortable wins, and while the rest of the top eight seeds all came
through easily enough, Swede Gustav Detter and two Frenchmen,
Romain Tenant and Mathieu Castagnet, scored upset wins
over 9/16 seeds.
Full day one
results |
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Men's Draw & Results
Women's Draw & Results |
European Individual
Championships 2007
MEN'S DRAW |
Round One
13-Jun |
Round Two
14-Jun |
Quarters
14-Jun |
Semis
15-Jun |
Final
16-Jun |
[1] Gregory
Gaultier (Fra)
9/1, 9/0, 9/3
Nicolay Angelov (Bul) |
Gregory Gaultier
9/6, 9/0, 9/2
Tom Hoevenaars |
Gregory
Gaultier
9/0, 9/1, 9/3
Laurens Jan Anjema |
Gregory
Gaultier
2/9, 9/2, 9/1, 9/5
Peter
Barker |
Gregory
Gaultier
18.00
GC
Renan
Lavigne |
Aqeel Rehman (Aut)
9/7, 7/9, 9/4, 2/9, 9/7
[9/16] Tom Hoevenaars (Ned) |
[9/16] Simon
Rosner (Ger)
9/6, 9/0, 9/5
Gregory Lecerf (Bel) |
Simon Rosner
9/4, 9/2, 9/3
Laurens Jan Anjema |
Domagoj
Spoljar (Cro)
9/1, 9/2, 9/3
[5/8] Laurens Jan Anjema (Ned) |
[5/8] Peter
Barker (Eng)
9/1, 9/1, 9/0
Petros Tzamaloukos (Gre) |
Peter Barker
9/2, 9/0, 9/6
Gustav Detter |
Peter
Barker
9/0, 9/3, 9/6
Adrian
Grant |
Gustav Detter
(Swe)
9/3, 9/7, 10/8
[9/16] Jean-Michel Arcucci (Fra) |
[9/16] Badr
Abdel Aziz (Swe)
8/9, 9/1, 9/1, 9/2
Romain Tenant (Fra) |
Romain Tenant
8/10, 9/4, 5/9, 9/0, 9/0
Adrian Grant |
Petr Martin
(Cze)
9/2, 9/3, 9/0
[3/4] Adrian Grant (Eng) |
[3/4] Nick
Matthew (Eng)
9/5, 9/0, 9/0
Alexy Severinov (Rus) |
Nick Matthew
9/6, 9/4, 4/9, 8/10, 9/4
Julien Balbo |
Nick
Matthew
7/9, 9/6, 9/6, 5/9, 9/7
Renan
Lavigne |
Renan
Lavigne6/9, 9/5, 0/9, 9/2, 9/3
Thierry
Lincou |
Patrick
Gaessler (Ger)
w/o
[9/16] Julien Balbo (Fra) |
[9/16] Mark
Krajcsak (Hun)
9/0, 9/1, 9/2
Roman Fetisov (Rus) |
Mark Krajcsak
5/9, 9/1, 9/4, 9/0
Renan Lavigne |
Ivan
Djordjevic (Ser)
9/0, 9/3, 9/1
[5/8] Renan Lavigne (Fra) |
[5/8] Borja
Golan (Esp)
9/4, 9/0, 9/2
Marek Manik (Svk) |
Borja Golan
9/7, 9/4, 9/0
Dylan Bennett |
Borja
Golan
3/9, 9/1, 9/7, 10/8
Thierry
Lincou |
Jakob
Dirnberger (Aut)
9/3, 4/9, 8/9, 9/2, 9/1
[9/16] Dylan Bennett (Ned) |
[9/16]
Christian Drakenberg (Swe)
9/4, 9/0, 3/9, 9/5
Mathieu Castagnet (Fra) |
Mathieu Castagnet
9/4, 9/2, 9/3
Thierry Lincou |
Petr
Kviecinsky (Svk)
9/4, 9/1, 9/2
[2] Thierry Lincou (Fra) |
Qualifying, 13-Jun :
Nicolay Angelov (Bul) bt Marlos Yiannou (Cyp)
9/4, 9/2, 9/1
Gregory Lecerf (Bel) bt Kostyantyn Rybalchenko (Ukr)
9/0, 9/0, 9/3
Domagoj Spoljar (Cro) bt Viktor Kovalchuk (Ukr)
9/1, 9/1, 9/0
Petros Tzamaloukos (Gre) bt Nicolas Paphtis (Cyp)
9/3, 4/9, 9/2, 9/1
Petr Martin (Cze) bt Pavel Opranenko (Ukr)
9/0, 9/1, 9/2
Alexy Severinov (Rus) bt Martin Kostolanski (Svk)
9/0, 10/8, 9/5
Roman Fetisov (Rus) bt Sebastian Viktor (Swe)
w/o
Ivan Djordjevic (Ser) bt Sergey Kostrykin (Rus)
9/0, 9/2, 9/0
Marek Manik (Svk) bt Adam Beba (Ukr)
9/1, 9/0, 9/1
Jakob Dirnberger (Aut) bt Lukas Nikka (Pol)
9/4, 9/0, 9/5
Petr Kviecinsky (Svk) bt Igor Pejic (Slo)
9/0, 9/1, 9/4
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European Individual
Championships 2007
WOMEN'S DRAW |
Qualifying
13-Jun |
Round One
14-Jun |
Quarters
14-Jun |
Semis
15-Jun |
Final
16-Jun |
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[1] Tania Bailey (Eng)
9/0, 9/0, 9/0
Birgit Coufal |
Tania
Bailey
9/0, 9/2, 9/2
Pamela
Pancis |
Tania
Bailey
9/4, 9/3, 9/7
Isabelle Stoehr |
Tania
Bailey
17.00
GC
Jenny
Duncalf |
[9/16] Birgit Coufal (Aut)
9/1, 9/5, 9/7
Laura Alonso (Esp) |
[9/16] Celia
Allamargot (Fra)
9/1, 9/5, 9/1
Vaso Karasava (Cyp) |
Celia Allamargot
9/4, 9/4, 0/9, 9/3
Pamela Pancis |
[5/8] Pamela Pancis (Aut)
9/1, 9/2, 9/0
Diana Leguss (Est) |
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[5/8] Orla Noom (Ned)
3/9, 9/6, 9/3, 9/6
Daniela Schumann |
Orla
Noom
9/1, 6/9, 9/0, 9/2
Isabelle Stoehr |
[9/16] Daniela
Schumann (Ger)
9/1, 9/0, 9/2
Kate Ginchikova (Rus) |
[9/16] Zuzana
Vackova (Cze)
8/10, 9/4, 9/5, 9/2
Laura Pomportes (Fra) |
Zuzana
Vackova
9/5, 9/4, 9/3
[3/4] Isabelle Stoehr (Fra) |
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[3/4] Annelize Naude (Ned)
Annelize Naude
Linda
Hruzikova |
Annelize
Naude
9/3, 9/4, 9/6
Annabelle
Romedenne |
Annelize
Naude
9/7, 9/1, 9/2
Jenny
Duncalf |
Linda
Hruzikova (Svk)
9/4, 9/4, 9/2
[9/16] Laurence Bois (Fra) |
Olga Ertlova (Cze)
9/10, 9/4, 9/3, 9/1
[9/16] Anna Carin Forstadius (Swe) |
Olga Ertlova
9/6, 9/2, 9/0
Annabelle Romedenne |
Zdravka
Marselova (Bul)
9/1, 9/1, 9/0
[5/8] Annabelle Romedenne (Bel) |
Femke Ellens (Cyp)
9/4, 9/3, 9/1
[9/16] Soraya Renai (Fra) |
Soraya Renai
9/0, 9/1, 9/4
[5/8] Margriet Huisman (Ned) |
Margriet
Huisman
9/7, 9/0, 9/0
Jenny
Duncalf |
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Jana Smeralova
(Cze)
9/3, 4/9, 9/4, 2/9, 9/6
[9/16] Charlotte Delsinne (Fra) |
Charlotte Delsinne
9/0, 9/0, 9/1
[2] Jenny Duncalf (Eng) |
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