WORLD SQUASH NEWS

RESULTS: Women's Forbes Squash Open, Southport, USA

1st round:
[1] Vicky Botwright (ENG) bt Alana Miller (CAN) 9-1, 9-1, 9-4
[5] Kate Roe (ENG) bt Olga Puigdemont Sola (ESP) 3-9, 9-3, 9-0, 9-4
Marnie Baizley (CAN) bt [4] Heidi Mather (AUS) 7-9, 9-0, 9-1, 9-3
[6] Melissa Martin (AUS) bt [Q] Tara Mullins (CAN) 9-1, 9-1, 9-3
Eman El Amir (EGY) bt [8] Melanie Jans (CAN) 10-8, 9-6, 9-1
[3] Pamela Nimmo (SCO) bt [Q] Narelle Krizek (AUS) 9-1, 9-4, 9-1
Runa Reta (CAN) bt [7] Karen Kronemeyer (NED) 9-4, 9-0, 9-2
[2] Stephanie Brind (ENG) bt Meredeth Quick (USA) 9-6, 9-3, 9-6

Canadians Force Forbes Upsets

Canadians featured in a trio of upsets in the first round of the Women's Forbes Squash Open in Southport, USA.

National champion Marnie Baizley was a game down against fourth seed Heidi Mather, but fought back to beat the Australian 7-9 9-0 9-1 9-3.  The unseeded 28-year-old former world No30 from Winnipeg now faces another Australian in the quarter-finals, after sixth seed Melissa Martin crushed Canadian qualifier 9-1 9-1 9-3.

Canada's unseeded Runa Reta also made it through to the last eight after upsetting Karen Kronemeyer, the seventh seed from the Netherlands, 9-4 9-0 9-2.  A surprise finalist in last week's Ontario Open in her hometown Ottawa, Reta now meets England's No2 seed Stephanie Brind, a 9-6 9-3 9-6 winner over American Meredeth Quick.

Melanie Jans, however, suffered her second successive early exit from a WISPA World Tour event this month.  The two-times Canadian National champion, seeded eight, went down 10-8 9-6 9-1 to Egypt's unseeded Eman El Amir.