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Football Open - tri-series #1 results

Oliver Johnston and Megan Craig took out their respective titles in the weekend's Christchurch Casino Football Open squash championship. This event is the first of the tri-series being held in conjunction with Christchurch and Burnside clubs. The tournament received great support with 113 entries plus a junior division.

This weekend was Oliver Johnston's turn to reverse two recent losses to top seed Chris Van der Salm having lost in five sets at Nelson and Squashways Opens. Both players are nationally ranked in the top ten and as expected the 45 minute final displayed some fantastic athleticism with long rallies, super recoveries and pin point drops. Both players started with some surprisingly simple mistakes but the skill factor and array of shots came out as the game progressed. After the third game, narrowly won by Oliver, it looked like we may be heading for another 5 setter but Oliver had different plans, shooting out to a 4/0 lead then after one handout won the next 6 points totally dictating the play slotting a dead nick from behind at 10/1 before taking out the match 11/6,6/11,11/9,11/3.

The womens final featured Megan Craig, currently ranked 40th in the World and had just beaten 27th world seed Fiona Mouerley last weekend at the World Champs in Kuala Lumpur, subsequently then beaten by Amanda Sobhy the 8th seed. Megan was up against the very talented local rising star Ruby Turnbull, who had beaten second seed Ruby Beresford in the semi finals 3/1. Although Ruby put up a very creditable display and gritty determination, the gap in standard was too great with Megan winning 15/5, 15/6, 15/2. Megan competed in the Mens Open as well and recorded a very gutsy effort beating Matt Smith for third place 11/5, 24/22, 11/9, showing what a quality player she is with a national ranking of two.

Other winners were:

Division 2 Men Matt Fahey bt Nick Wilson 3/2

Division 3 Men Brandon Mchaffie bt Alastair Smith 3/1

Division 4 Men Jason Merrett bt Ben Morrow 3/1

Division 5 Men Cam Exeter bt Curtis Millard  3/1

Division 2 Women Grace Allen bt Molly Allen 3/1

Junior J Grade Ryan Ko bt Jack Lamb 3/1


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