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All 8 seeded players made their way through to the quarterfinals at the Christchurch PSA tonight.

Local favourite and top seed Paul Coll showed his strength and speed against fellow Kiwi Evan Williams.  Williams fought well in the 3rd games and it was tense at 8/8 in the game however Coll closed it out 11/9.  James Huang didn’t look too troubled in his match against Ben Grindrod and seemed to have recovered from a nasty collision with Paul Coll last week in Palmerston North. He eased through his games with some resistance from Grindrod in the 3rd to await a rematch with Coll in the quarters.

The closest match of the night was a torrid affair between Australian Josh Larkin and Ashley Davies from England.  Larkin took the first 2 narrowly but Davies fought back hard to win a nail-biting 3rd game 12/10.  He then won the 4th 11/8 to take it to a fifth set decider.  Larkin however was too strong and a number of errors from Davies saw the game finish fairly quickly at 11/1. Peter Creed the Welsh 4thseed was too strong and fast for Kiwi wildcard Scott Galloway winning in 3 games though Galloway played some great shots at times and it was an exciting game to watch.

Top Malaysian junior Eain Yow Ng looked a little below par in his match against Englishman Angus Gillams with the 4th seed winning comfortably in 3 games. Lance Beddoes made the quarter finals with a closely fought 3 set match against another Malaysian Addeen Idrakie.

Josh Masters the 4th seed showed raw power and some impressive finishing shots to take the first 2 games with relative ease against Malaysian Mohad Syafiq Kamal.  However he seemed to just miss his finishing shots in the 3rd and the Malaysian was able to counter-attack and put away the ball himself.  He took it 11/9 and this seemed to improve his confidence into the 4th which was narrowly contested, Masters seemed relieved to close it out with a somewhat generous stroke at 10/8 match ball.  Malaysian 2nd seed Ivan Yuen was strong and speedy around the court in his match against Finn Matias Tuomi.  After Yuen won the first two games Tuomi played some deft drop-shots to really push the Malaysian in the 3rd game but lost it 13/11 to lose the match in 3 games.

You can watch the excitement from 5:30pm tonight here and some round 1 games here

If you want some alternative commentary check out the SPALK page here

Draws for the PSA event can be found here whilst the local event and local draws can be found here

Check out the writeups from Qualifying Round 1 and Qualifying Round 2 as well.

Round 1

Paul Coll (NZL) (1) beat Evan Williams (NZL) 11/4, 11/3, 11/9 (40 mins)

James Huang (TPE) (8) beat Ben Grindrod (NZL) 11/6, 11/1, 11/9 (33 mins)

Joshua Larkin (AUS) (6) beat Ashley Davies (ENG) 11/7, 11/8, 10/12, 8/11, 11/1 (68 mins)

Peter Creed (WAL) (4) beat Scott Galloway (NZL) 11/3, 11/8, 11/3 (30 mins)

Angus Gillams (ENG) (3) beat Eain Yow Ng (MAS) 11/4, 11/3, 11/5 (23 mins)

Lance Beddoes (NZL) (8) beat Addeen Idrakie (MAS) 11/8, 11/9, 11/8 (45 mins)

Joshua Masters (ENG) (5) beat Mohad Syafiq Kamal (MAS) 11/6, 11/3, 9/11, 11/8 (44 mins)

Ivan Yuen (MAS) (2) beat Matias Tuomi (FIN) 11/3, 11/9, 13/11 (26 mins)

Quarter-Finals

5:30 pm Paul Coll (NZL) (1) vs James Huang (TPE) (8)

6:30 pm Joshua Larkin (AUS) (6) vs Peter Creed (WAL) (4)

7:30 pm Angus Gillams (ENG) (3) vs Lance Beddoes (NZL) (8)

8:30 pm Joshua Masters (ENG) (5) vs Ivan Yuen (MAS) (2)


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