Williams and Murrills Gain Finals Place in Waikato PSA Open 

Pictured Right - Evan Williams (Left), Sam Crawford Squash Director SNZ (Centre), Luke Jones (Right) - Waikato PSA Semi Final

Evan Williams and Adam Murrills have both claimed a place in the final of the Waikato Open PSA at the Hamilton Squash and Tennis Club with wins in three over Luke Jones and Ben Grindrod respectively.

The first semi-finals match was between Evan Williams of Wellington and Luke Jones of Palmerston North. The first game saw some great control of the centre of the court by Williams with Jones covering a number of miles. Jones was worked hard and Williams tight shots worked in his favour with a convincing first game win for Williams. The second game continued in much the same fashion as the first with Williams pulling off some great drops from the back of the court. Jones had moments where his shots were too good for Williams, however Williams proved too strong and took the second game. Jones took an early lead in the third playing some great shots from Williams loose balls, however Williams kicked it up a gear and structured some good rallies working Jones out of place and eventually claiming the third game and the match.

The second match was between Tauranga's Ben Grindrod and England's Adam Murrills. Both players showed great structure with strong movement around court. The errors were low with each player winning their points of an irretrievable shot. It was a tight first game but Murrills managed to clinch the first game and take the lead. The second game started off in a similar fashion to the first but Murrills started to play more dieing shots and he moved Grindrod with some great deception at points which sent Grindrod in the wrong direction. Some errors crept into Murrills shots but he was eventually able to seal the second game. Grindrod took an early lead in the third with some unforced errors from Murrills and great working of the shot by Grindrod. Murrills however worked his way back into the game throwing some great unexpected shots into his game catching Grindrod off guard. Once Murrills got the lead Grindrod couldn't get it back and Murrills claimed the match in three.

Finals start at 4pm tomorrow at the Hamilton Squash and Tennis Club.

Full results can be found below.

Make sure you check out the Qualifying Round, Round 1 and Quarter Final results as well.

Semi Finals

[1] Evan Williams (NZL) bt [8] Luke Jones (NZL) – 11/4, 11/6, 11/7

[2] Adam Murrills (ENG) bt [3] Ben Grindrod (NZL) – 13/11, 11/7, 11/7

Finals

[1] Evan Williams (NZL) vs [2] Adam Murrills (ENG)

Pictured Below - Ben Grindrod (Left), Sam Crawford Squash Director SNZ, Adam Murrills (Right) - Waikato PSA Semi Finals