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England Results, Day Five, 05-Aug:
Classic SF: Victoria Bell bt
Pushppa Devi (Mas)
9/4, 9/7, 9/4, 9/6 (36m)
Final v Olivia Blatchford (Usa), 12.00 6th
England Results, Day Four, 04-Aug:
QF: Victoria Lust lost to
[3/4] Annie Au (Hkg)
2/9, 0/9, 6/9 (32m)
QF: Sarah-Jane Perry lost to [2] Camille Serme (Fra)
6/9, 0/9, 9/10 (33m)
Classic Plate:
QF: Victoria Bell beat Nicole Chua (Sin)
9/6, 9/5, 9/3 (22m)
England Results, Day Three, 03-Aug:
R4: Victoria Lust beat [9/16]
Alia Balbaa (Egy)
9/3, 9/6, 7/9, 9/5 (39m)
R4: Sarah-Jane Perry (beat [5/8] Sina Wall (Ger)
9/4, 9/7, 7/9, 9/7 (50m)
R4: Kimberley Hay lost to [5/8] Heba Al Torky
6/9, 3/9, 8/10 (38m)
Classic Plate:
R2: Victoria Bell beat Amanda
Cranston (Nzl)
9/7, 1/9, 9/4, 9/2
R3: Victoria Bell beat Nour El Tayeb (Egy)
9/2, 6/9, 10/8, 1/9, 9/4 (46m)
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Going well so far ...
Sarah-Jane Perry reports
SJ in the quarters
After a slow start
on Thursday morning I managed to battle through against the talented
Egyptian Nour El Tayeb. She is able to hit nicks from anywhere! Next
I played Leung Shin Nga and I got off to a better start this time
taking the first game. I reached match ball in the fourth only to
hit possibly the worst boast to leave my racket in recent years! She
took from this and won the fourth and reached a 6-2 lead in the
final game. But I wasn't going easily and clawed back 7 unanswered
points to reach the last 16 in just under 70 minutes.
In the last 16 I faced Sina Wall of Germany. This was a completely
different game played at a much slower pace than the previous night
but again I started well and took the first game. She dug in and the
next three games all went close to 9-7 but the second and fourth
were mine and so was a place in the quarter finals of the World
Championships!
Kim falls to El Torky
Kim put up a brave fight
against Heba El Torky pushing her close in the first and third games
before Heba took the third game 10-8 to progress and set up a
meeting with Joelle King. Previous to this Kim had a tough win
against Kimberley Bessel of Australia edging it 10-9 in the fifth
before stepping up for a reasonably comfortable victory against
Faustine Gilles of France.
Lusty squeezes through
Vikki Lust had a comfortable win over Carmen Lee of Hong Kong and
after a slow start she took control against Wee Nee Low from
Malaysia to complete a 3-1 victory in just 26 minutes to set up a
clash with feisty Egyptian Alia Balbaa.
This match involved some amazing kills, drops and drop volleys with
both players being forced to cover all corners of the court in most
rallies. Lust took the first game with reasonable comfort before
taking a closer second game. Alia hit a sequence of kills and drop
volleys which left the crowd in awe to take an even closer third
game before Lust came through to take the fourth and the match for a
well deserved place in the quarter finals where she will play Hong
Kong's 3/4 seed Annie Au.
Classic Quarter for Bell
Vicky Bell had a comfortable second round win over Siu Ka Man before
going down in three to the in form Egyptian Nour Baghat. She bounced
back in the Classic Plate event however playing good squash in
beating Kiwi Amanda Cranston in four and now meets Nour El Tayeb,
the young but talented Egyptian.
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Kimberley Hay in action
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England Results, Day Two, 02-Aug:
Three English girls will contest the last sixteen as
Kim, Vicky and Sarah-Jane all won both
their matches today. With two marathon wins, Sarah-Jane will need
her rest tonight ...
Victoria Bell bt Siu Ka Man (Hkg)
9/1, 9/3, 9/0 (17m)
lost to Nour Baghat
2/9, 3/9, 0/9 (36m)
Kimberley Hay bt Kimberley Bessell (Aus) 9/3, 9/2, 7/9, 6/9,
10/9 (36m)
bt Faustine Gilles 9/5 8/10, 9/3, 9/0 (29m)
Victoria Lust bt Carmen Lee (Hkg)
9/4, 9/7, 9/2 (27m)
bt Wee Nee Low 7/9, 9/1, 9/1, 9/3 (26m)
Sarah-Jane Perry bt Nour El Tayeb (Egy) 4/9, 6/9, 9/6,
9/1, 9/5 (55m)
bt Leung Shin Nga 9/3, 6/9, 10/8, 9/10, 9/6 (68m)
England Results, Day One, 01-Aug:
Kimberley Hay (Eng) bt Karla Chong (Hkg) 9/4,
10/8, 9/5 (37m)
Kim flies the flag
on day one
Sarah-Jane Perry reports
Finally the matches got underway but just Kim flying the flag for us
today, the rest of us receiving byes into the second round.
 She
faced a reasonably tough first round match against Karla Chong
competing on home soil. Kim was down in each game but pulled through
well to take victory and claim a place in the second round tomorrow.
Her opponent is the seeded Australian Kimberley Bessell but
Kim is hoping to cause an upset and advance to the third round where
the likely opposition is Logan Greer from USA.
First up tomorrow is Vicky Bell, scheduled for 10:00 am. With two
matches tomorrow it's looking like a long day ahead but with places
in the last 16 up for grabs, all guns blazing from the off!
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England Factfile:
 Victoria
Lust (5/8) is the reigning British National Junior (U19) champion,
following earlier title successes in the British U13 and U17
National championships.
 Victoria
Bell (9/16) is the holder of the British U17 crown, who claimed the
Irish Junior Open title in December.
 Kimberley
Hay, a former British U13 and U15 champion, led England to
success in the European Junior U17 championships in May, and was a
surprise semi-finalist in the European U19 championships.
 Sarah-Jane
Perry (9/16)made a notable breakthrough in the U19 age-group in
February when she reached the British Junior Championship final
against the odds - only four months after finishing as runner-up in
the British U17 Championship.
Team Manager:
Annette Pilling
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31-Jul:
Watch out Hong Kong,
Team England are here ...
Sarah-Jane Perry reports
We arrived in Hong Kong Thursday lunchtime and were hit by a
pleasant wave of heat as we got off the plane in contrast to the air
conditioning on-board.
Just a short hop across from Heathrow at close to 12 hours (well
compared to the teams from the USA and Canada), but we had plenty to
keep us entertained with 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' game on
the entertainment system on-board being a favourite with both
players and coach (the other coach out of sight up the front of the
plane eating steak and champagne!)
The next couple of days involved settling in, 'acclimatising' to the
7 hour time difference and sussing out the area as well as stocking
up on ample food from the local supermarket which involved an
interesting hunt for strawberry jam. As we were the first team to
arrive at our hotel we also saw some of the other teams arriving and
putting faces to names.
After breakfast on Saturday we ventured to the club on the MTR
(subway) a bargain at a mere 5$ each (approx 30p). The subway route
to the club also having a built in warm up as the club is a 5 minute
walk up a hill and a large set of steps from the station within the
Festival Park shopping centre.
Saturday ended with a trip to the hard rock cafe followed by a visit
to the Adidas store close by. Kim obviously in an artistic mood
after finishing her food, created a piece of art with the rest of
her chips etc, later to be named Zacharias. One waiter commented it
to be 'the most creative thing' he had seen in 12 years of working
in a restaurant!
Get me outta here ...
The pace was stepped up in the training next day with no time to
return to the hotel between the two sessions, however the first
'drama' came this morning (Monday) as the team went to get the 9.15
bus to the club. Having returned some stuff to the room, Vicky and
myself called for the lift at the 10th floor and waited a good 5
minutes before one turned up.
To our dismay the lift that came was full of Kiwis so the wait
started again; a couple of minutes later though another lift arrived
with just the one Kiwi this time. It didn't take long for the lift
to 'malfunction' though as it came to a halt soon after starting the
descent. We tried returning to floor 10 and repressing the ground
floor button but nothing happened.
Eventually they got an English speaking person to the intercom on
the other end to tell us the lift was stuck (if being stationary in
a lift for 10 minutes doesn't give you that idea nothing will!) and
that a technician had been called and should be with us in the next
10 minutes.
For someone who is scared of lifts Vicky was reasonably calm as she
rang coach Worth to tell him about our misfortunes and throughout
the ordeal. Finally the lift took us to floor 15 and we nervously
got into a different lift which returned us safely to the ground
where we were reunited with our beloved rackets (and team mates of
course).
Thankfully the bus had waited for us and we were able to arrive at
the club on time for our 10am court slot.
Another experience over, many more to come over the next fortnight
without a doubt!
Hong Kong watch out ... Team England are here!
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