RESULTS: Women's Cathay Pacific Sun Hung Kai Financial Hong Kong Open, Kowloon, Hong Kong
1st qualifying round:
Ho Ka Po (HKG) bt Szeto Ka-Hei (HKG) 12-10, 11-4, 11-8 (25m)
Lauren Selby (ENG) bt Ahn Eun Chan (KOR) 11-7, 11-6, 11-9 (33m)
Carmen Lee (HKG) bt Isabella Bersani (USA) 11-4, 11-3, 11-3 (15m)
Tong Tsz-Wing (HKG) bt Lee Ka Yi (HKG) 11-7, 11-6, 11-8 (22m)
Tenille Swartz (RSA) bt Choi Uen Shan (HKG) 11-3, 11-5, 11-4 (18m)
Yu Ra Choi (KOR) bt Chiu Ka-Hei (HKG) 11-6, 12-10, 9-11, 11-9 (39m)
Liu Tsz-Ling (HKG) bt Chan Pui-Hei (HKG) 11-1, 11-7, 11-5 (21m)
Ho Tze-Lok (HKG) bt Karman Siu (HKG) 11-6, 11-7, 11-8 (24m)
Local players will contest all but two of the Women's Cathay Pacific Sun Hung Kai Financial Hong Kong Open qualifying finals after today's (Monday) great display by Hong Kong teenagers in the $74,000 WISPA World Tour squash event - the seventh WISPA Gold championship of the year.
An impressive 11-6, 11-7, 11-8 win over compatriot Karman Siu will take 14-year-old Ho Tze-Lok into the final round, where she will meet India's Dipika Pallikal, the second highest-ranked player in the qualifying competition.
At the other end of the draw, 15-year-old Ho Ka Po also got the better of a fellow Hong Kong countrywoman when she beat Szeto Ka-Hei 12-10, 11-4, 11-8.
However, standing in the way of Ho Ka Po making her debut in a WISPA Gold event is England's Emma Beddoes, the world No33 who arrived in Hong Kong fresh from title victory in last week's Hamptons Open in the USA.
Qualifying finals line-up:
Emma Beddoes (ENG) v Ho Ka Po (HKG)
Siti Munirah Jusoh (MAS) v Lauren Selby (ENG)
Orla Noom (NED) v Carmen Lee (HKG)
Song Sun-Mi (KOR) v Tong Tsz-Wing (HKG)
Elise Ng (HKG) v Tenille Swartz (RSA)
Lisa Camilleri (AUS) v Yu Ra Choi (KOR)
Kanzy Emad El-Defrawy (EGY) v Liu Tsz-Ling (HKG)
Dipika Pallikal (IND) v Ho Tze-Lok (HKG)