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Megan Craig will be the only kiwi left to fight for a title at the Doubledot Media PSA after an exciting day of games.

The women's quarterfinals saw the top three seeds have relatively comfortable victories to carry them through to the semis. However top NZ Junior Ellie Epke has continued her excellent early form on the PSA tour with a well fought victory over 4th seeded Australian Lakeesha Rarere.

The men's semifinals saw the first match featuring the lightning fast Harinder Sandhu of India against the left-handed Raphael Kandra of Germany. The first game was close all the way and Sandhu was just able to take it 12/10. In the 2nd game the German showed some real class and always looked in control to take it 11/6. The 3rd game was critical for both players and it featured some spectacular rallies, in the end Sandhu took it in a titanic struggle that went all the way to 15/13. Sandhu gained a lot of confidence from winning the third game and seemed the stronger in the 4th to take it quite comfortably and close out the match in a hard fought four games.

The second game of the men's semifinal saw the Englishman Declan James continue his great run of results from last weekend in Palmerston North and looked all class as he won the first two games with relative ease finishing both of them with fantastic cross-court nicks. The gutsy Australian Rex Hedrick was not going to roll over and fought bravely in the 3rd which went all the way to 10/10 before the Australian was able to extend the match into the 4th. He continued his clawback by taking the 4th narrowly 11/9 and an epic 5 setter was in store. However the Australian seemed to have expended most of his energy in fighting back and had little left for the remaining game, James able to accelerate away to an early lead at 7/2 and never looked back, taking the game 11/3 and concluding an enthralling and exhausting 82min match.

In the women's semifinal the top two seeds both started in dominant fashion in the early games but both had a struggle to finish their opponents off. Sina Wall of Germany fought bravely in the 3rd and the game seemed to stretch out forever but she just couldn't hit a winning shot away after several chances to take the game, in the end the South African Aiyoli Waters was too strong with a powerful cross-court drive to beat the German into the back corner. The game between the two kiwis Eleanor Epke and Megan Craig saw the newby onto the circuit Epke pushing Megan Craig particularly hard. Epke fought hard in the final two games shwoing her strength on the circuit and she probably deserved to get a game but Craig was able to pickup some amazing shots and finish the match in 3 close games. 

Games to be streamed are below with full Women's draw being found here and the Men's draw here

The following games will be streamed here

2pm - [1] Siyoli Waters (RSA) vs [2] Megan Craig (NZL)

3pm - [3] Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND) vs [4] Declan James (ENG)

 

Womens Quarterfinals

(1) Siyoli Waters (RSA) beat (5) Jessica Turnbull (AUS) - 11/2, 11/7, 11/8 (23 min)

(3) Sina Wall (GER) beat (L) Nadia Hubbard (NZL) - 11/8, 11/3, 11/3 (17 min)

Eleanor Epke (NZL) beat (4) Lakeesha Rarere (AUS) - 8/11, 13/11, 11/4, 9/11, 11/4 (41 min)

(2) Megan Craig (NZL) beat Hwayeong Eum (KOR) - 11/6, 11/6, 11/2 (20 min)

Womens Semifinals

(1) Siyoli Waters (RSA) beat (3) Sina Wall (GER) - 11/8, 11/5, 17/15 (33 min)

(2) Megan Craig (NZL) beat Eleanor Epke (NZL) - 11/5, 12/10, 13/11 (29 min)

Mens Semifinals

(3) Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND) beat (1) Raphael Kandra (GER) - 12/10, 11/6, 15/13, 11/7 (63 min)

(4) Declan James (ENG) beat (2) Rex Hedrick (AUS) - 11/7, 11/5, 10/12, 9/11, 11/3 (82 min)


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