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14th February 2010 Beat Jenny Duncalf 3-2 [10/12, 11/7, 4/11, 11/7, 12/10] – 65mins “Waters dethrones Duncalf” (Article Courtesy of Squashsite.co.uk)
Alison Waters and Jenny Duncalf have dominated this event in recent years, winning the last three between them, so it was fitting that they should contest the final in front of a packed Sportcity crowd.
And what a final they gave them, 65 minutes of world class squash that swung one way then another, with the result in the balance until the very end. The opening game went point for point, Duncalf edged ahead from 8-all to 10/8, Waters levelled, but Duncalf took it with a nick on the sidewall (remember that for later) and then put away a loose dropshot from Waters.
The second was also point for point to 7-all, but Waters sped away to 11/7 to equalise.
The third was the only game where one player dominated, and it was Duncalf, who raced to a 5/0 lead and never looked back as she regained the lead.
Throughout all this time, throughout the whole match, the squash was excellent. Both players were working the ball and working their opponent well, the error count was low, and the crowd were loving it.
Waters held a slender lead at the start of the fourth, was pegged back to 6-all, then pulled away to take it 11/7 and set up a decider.
It looked all over as Jenny reasserted at the start of the fifth, and at 6/1 not many would have predicted Alison’s comeback to 6/5, which she worked hard for and deserved. She threw her arms in the air as she made two poor mistakes to give Jenny some breathing room, but from 9/5 down dug in again to level it at 9-all.
Jenny got the first matchball opportunity, forcing a loose boast which she put away delicately, but then hit the tin to take us into extra points.
The next rally was a long one, and Alison finished it with a fortuitous nick on the sidewall (now you remember) to give herself match ball.
One more rally, they edged towards the front, exchanged a couple of short balls each, then Jenny’s last shot clipped the top of the tin and we had a new champion.
 Alison with Men's Champion Nick Matthew
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13th February 2010 ‘Phew!!!’
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. 3rd February 2010 – ‘Alison wins the Burning River Classic 2010′ FINAL: Alison beats Omneya Abdel Kawy 3-2 [11/7, 11/9, 7/11, 3/11, 11/6] ‘Delighted to have won the Burning River Classic after a tough 3-2 win over Omneya. It was a totally different match to last weekas the court was very bouncy so it changed the match totally. Omneya did well to get it back from 2-0 down and in the 5th she gave me a few errors much to my relief. A massive thanks to Nathan
2nd February 2010 ‘Pleased to have won 3-0 tonight as it felt very hot and bouncy out there so was hard controlling it at times . After the first i just tried to slow it down more and look for my length. There were no fire alarms going off tonight which was good. So its a repeat of the Greenwich final last week with Omneya!
1st February 2010 ‘Interesting match tonight… I was 1-0 up and 6-2 up when the fire alarm went off. so we had to stop for a good 15-20 mins before the firemen came to turn if off! It was hard as we tried to keep warm during the Just been to dinner with my billets from last year. Amazing house with an English pub actually in the house so we had a fun time! - Alison View the ‘Burning River Classic’ Tournament Draw
31st January 2010 ‘It’s been a week since Greenwich so it was great to start the tournament last night with a 3-1 win over Emma Beddoes. Felt a bit flat in the first game and Emma was taking it in well. I got going in the 2nd and played pretty well after that. I play Joelle King tomorrow. There were some really long and good matches yesterday and 5 matches went to 5 games so I waited a long time to play. The standard was all really high. I am staying with a really nice family again which makes things easy, buts its just far too cold here!! - Alison
24th January 2010 ‘I am delighted to have won the Harrow Greenwich Open and am really played to have beaten Omneya 3-0. My record against Omneya has not that great as she is a very talented player so i am extra pleased with the result. Thanks to everyone in Greenwich for the week, we get looked after so well there. Am now in Brooklyn for a few days.. and its shopping time in NY today! We went to watch TOC last night and it’s such an amazing venue, there is a great buzz around..Will be there supporting tonight.. come on England! - Alison
“Waters takes Greenwich Title” “It was the top two seeds who contested the final of the richest women’s event of the year so far, after contrasting semi-final victories for England’s Alison Waters and Egypt’s Omneya Abdel Kawy at the Field Club. Waters made it three straight-game wins in a row as she beat fourth-seeded Vanessa ATkinson to reach the final. Kawy twice had to come from behind before ending the run of unseeded compatriot Raneem El Weleily – who had ousted third seed Laura Massaro in a sensational quarter-final upset. But it was Waters who came through three close games in the final, reducing the head-to-head deficit to 8-4 in the Egyptian’s favour as she repeated her win over Kawy in last year’s Greenwich quarter-finals. Waters, 25, was playing her tenth WISPA final and bagged only her third WISPA title out of 85 events, while the 24-year-old Kawy has amassed six titles from 114 events and was making her 21st appearance in a final” |
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