Coll Claims Second NZ Title 

A packed crowd was in attendance to watch the final of the Christchurch PSA held at the Burnside Squash Club.  Local home-town favourite Paul Coll, the NZ Number #1 and top seed was up against the 3rd seeded Englishman Angus Gillams.

Coll started the first game slowly, with Gillams hitting a couple of deceptive winners and Coll making some uncharacteristic errors for Gillams to take an early 4/1 lead.  But Coll improved his accuracy and was soon dominating the court to close the gap, however Gillams did fight back and they traded point for point to reach 7/7.  After that however Coll tightened his grip on the game and forced a couple of mistakes from the left-handed Englishman and Coll took the first game 11/7. 

The second game Coll simply dominated, he sped to the ball seeming to read Gillams drop-shots easily and then punished them with attacking crosscourts or counterdrops.  Before we knew it the game was over at 11/2.  The third game was more of the same, Coll continued to dominate and despite some late resistance from Gillams, Coll continued his march to victory taking the game 11/5.  A 10^th PSA victory for Paul Coll and his second in Christchurch.

You can rewatch all the excitement on the main court here and some round 1 games here

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

Check out the writeups from Qualifying Round 1, Qualifying Round 2, Round 1, Quarter-Finals and Semi-Finals as well.

Finals

Paul Coll (NZL) (1) beat Angus Gillams (ENG) (3) 11/7, 11/2, 11/5 (33 mins)