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32nd Swiss Open
10-13 March, Geneva, Switzerland. PSA &6k, WISPA $4k |
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Stacey's Swiss Nightmare |
13-Mar:
Top Seeds Take
Swiss Titles
Canada's Shahier Razik and
England's Dominique Lloyd-Walter both justified their top
seedings by claiming the Swiss Open titles with straight game
victories over Philip Barker and Lauren Briggs, respectively.
12-Mar:
Top Seeds
Take On French
Top seeds Shahier Razik
and Philip Barker both beat French opposition in the
semi-finals, as Laurent Elriani and Julien Balbo beat
yesterday's qualifying heroes in the morning quarter-finals but
failed to make and impression on Razik and Barker in the evening's
semi-finals.
The women's event will see an all-English final, again between the
top seeds, Dominique Lloyd-Walter meets Lauren Briggs.
11-Mar:
Tenant & Hassaan Swoop Into Swiss Open Quarters
Qualifiers Romain Tenant and Ahmed Mohsen Hassaan
swept through two rounds of the Sigma Swiss Open to reach the
quarter-finals of the 32nd staging of the event in Geneva.
Tenant made his breakthrough in the first round when he overcame the
in-form Englishman Stacey Ross, the third seed, 11-7 10-11 11-6 3-11
11-8. The Frenchman made it to the last eight after beating fellow
qualifier Amr Mansi, an Egyptian, 11-8 11-9 3-11 11-9.
Egyptian Hassaan made his unexpected progress after victories over a
pair of Hungarians - first beating 11th seed Marton Szaboky 11-5
11-7 11-3, then removing 7th seed Mark Krajcsak 11-8 6-11 11-8 8-11
11-8.
In the women's event, two unseeded players also pulled off
significant upsets: Emma Beddoes despatched fellow English
countrywoman Kirsty McPhee, the fifth seed, 9-3 9-6 9-4,
while Egypt's Hend Osama overcame England's eighth seed Georgina
Stoker 9-2 9-1 9-0.
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Stacey's Swiss Nightmare
Third seed
Stacey Ross was not destined to do well in this Swiss Open
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 Hi Fram,
Thought
you may want to hear about my attempt to travel the relatively short
distance from London to Geneva via Paris yesterday.
My flight was due to leave at 8.45 which meant a 5 am start for me.
It was delayed by an hour, no big deal, but meant I would miss my
connection in Paris.
The next three flights were cancelled. I queued for close to two
hours to change my ticket to the last remaining flight at 7pm. I
thought about getting the train but was assured by Air France that
this flight would definitely leave on time. I waited six hours for
the flight to be cancelled with ten mins to go.
I was offered a hotel for the night and a one pm flight the next day
which meant I would miss my match at 2.15. After much discussion I
was put on a 7am flight. The bus for the hotel wasn't due till 9.30
so I tried to get a cab but no one knew where it was. The bus
journey to the hotel, the Disneyland Paris, was AN HOUR away.
I arrived along with two other buses full of people checking in at
the same time, and joined the end of the 200+ queue. 90 minutes
later at midnight I reached the front to be told no shuttle in the
morning.
Got up at 4.15 am to get to the airport. Arrived with 20mins to go
but at the wrong terminal. I sprinted half a mile, was last person
on.
Arrived in Geneva 24hrs late. Air France had then lost my bags. Got
to the club borrowed a racket and some shoes and lost three two.
Stacey Ross |
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