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01 - 04 Jun, Kalgoorlie, Australia, $3.5k |
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04-Jun, Final:
[1] Scott Arnold (NSW) bt [2] Ryan Cuskelly (NSW)
15/13, 2/11, 11/7, 11/7
Scott beats training partner
for Kalgoorlie title
Andrew Dent reports
Sydney’s Scott Arnold said skipping last week’s City of
Perth International squash tournament probably gave him the edge
over fellow New South Welshman Ryan Cuskelly in the final
of the Golden Open in the West Australian gold mining centre of
Kalgoorlie on Monday.
The 21-year-old Arnold beat 19-year-old Cuskelly 3/1 in a battle
of the next generation of Australian squash stars.
The final was a close affair, with reigning Australian junior
champion Cuskelly pushing Arnold for much of the match. After
sharing the first two games, Arnold was able to ease away at
crucial stages in the third and fourth.
Arnold and Cuskelly train with the Australian Institute of Sport
in Brisbane, where they are both training partners and flat mates.
Arnold has now won two tournaments over the past month, in
Joondalup and Kalgoorlie, and has seen his world ranking rise to
78.
He said a solid month’s training with AIS coaches Byron Davis and
Rodney Martin had paved the way for his run of successes.
Arnold will return to Brisbane for three weeks before heading to
Adelaide for the South Australian Open and then to Clare for the
Australian Open.
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live together and train with each other so we know each other
pretty well.
"Once we get on court we’re both pretty competitive, but when we
come off we’re best of mates again.
"I think he felt the effects of playing four weeks straight. I
took last week off and that made me a bit fresher. That week off
was probably the only difference between us."
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03-Jun, Semis:
Arnold and Cuskelly to meet again
Andrew Dent reports
 Australian
Institute of Sport training partners Scott Arnold and
Ryan Cuskelly will meet in the final of the Golden Open in the
West Australian gold mining centre of Kalgoorlie on Monday.
Top seed Arnold beat tenacious Queensland junior Zac Alexander 3/2
in the first semi-final on Sunday before Cuskelly was handed a
spot in the final when veteran England-born West Australian Paul
Ratcliff injured a groin muscle and was forced to withdraw in the
third game with Cuskelly leading 2/0 at the time.
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and Cuskelly have been the form players on the Australian leg of
the PSA Tour. Arnold won the City of
Joondalup open two weeks ago, beating Cuskelly in the
semi-finals along the way, and was runner-up at the
Merredin Open in WA in early May.
The 19-year-old Cuskelly won the
Top End Open in Darwin and followed that up with the
City of Perth International
Challenge last weekend, his first two titles on the main PSA
Tour.
Both players have seen their form rewarded with career-high world
rankings – Arnold rising to 78 and Cuskelly breaking into the top
100 to be at 99.
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Kalgoorlie
Kalgoorlie is Western Australia's largest goldfields town, famed
for its fascinating gold rush history, fabulous old buildings and
old gold miners' ghost towns.
'Kal' was born amid the 1880s gold rush when thousands of
starry-eyed prospectors made the 700 kilometre journey east of
Perth seeking their fortunes.
Vibrant Hannan Street (named after Irishman Paddy Hannan who
struck gold in 1893) is lined with pubs, nightclubs, cafes and
restaurants. There's the Hannan railway station, the Hannan hotel
and you can even drink a pint of Hannan lager.
Kalgoorlie is still an active mining town and the 3.5 kilometre
long, 1.5 kilometre wide Super Pit Mine - where 800,000 ounces of
gold is produced each year - is mind-blowing. This massive hole in
the Earth is as deep as Uluru is high with about the same
circumference.
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 Fluid
Line Golden Open International 2007
01 - 04 Jun, Kalgoorlie, Australia, $3.5k |
Round One
02 Jun |
Quarters
02 Jun |
Semis
03 Jun |
Final
04 Jun |
[1] Scott Arnold (Aus)
11/8, 12/10, 11/9
Nathan Turnbull (Aus) |
Scott Arnold
11/0, 11/0, 11/1
Will Newnham |
Scott Arnold
15/13, 10/12, 12/10, 7/11, 11/7
Zac Alexander |
Scott Arnold
15/13, 2/11, 11/7, 11/7
Ryan Cuskelly |
[7] WillNewnham (Eng)
11/7, 11/4, 11/9
Neeraj Aggarwal (Aus) |
[4] Jacob Lohrisch (Aus)
11/3, 8/11, 11/5, 11/4
[Q] Zac Alexander (Aus) |
Zac Alexander
5/11, 11/6, 4/11, 11/6, 11/8
Dong Woo Kim |
[5] Chris Truswell (Eng)
11/6, 7/11, 11/4, 11/4
[Q] Dong Woo Kim (Kor) |
[Q]
Paul Ratcliff
(Eng)
3/11, 12/14, 11/5, 11/7, 11/6
[8] Nathan Stevenson (Aus) |
Paul Ratcliff
12/10, 8/11, 12/10, 1/11, 11/9
Joseph Desira |
Paul Ratcliff
11/4, 11/9, 3/1 rtd
Ryan Cuskelly |
[Q]
Navin Samarasinghe (Sri)
5/11, 11/9, 11/8, 11/5
[3] Joseph Desira (Aus) |
Will Jones (Sco)
14/12, 11/4, 11/10
[6] Justin Beard (Aus) |
Will Jones
11/4, 11/9, 11/7
Ryan Cuskelly |
Patrick Woods (Aus)
13/11, 11/5, 12/10
[2] Ryan Cuskelly (Aus) |
Veteran to take on young star
Andrew Dent reports
Veteran West Australian Paul Ratcliffe will take on rising
star Ryan Cuskelly in the semi-finals of the Golden Open
squash tournament in Kalgoorlie on Sunday.
The 36-year-old English-born Ratcliff is an unlikely semi-finalist
after causing two big upsets on Saturday. He beat eighth seed
Nathan Stevenson in the first round then accounted for third
seeded Joseph Desira in the quarters.
He will find the going tough against Cuskelly, who is coming off a
win in the City of Perth International last weekend.
The second semi-final will be between top seed Scott Arnold
and young Queenslander Zac Alexander.
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