| Women's Carol Weymuller US Open Squash Championship, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Semi-finals: [1] Natalie Grainger (USA) bt [4] Shelley Kitchen (NZL) 9-4, 9-1, 9-3 [5] Jenny Duncalf (ENG) bt [3] Vanessa Atkinson (NED) 2-9, 9-3, 2-9, 9-7, 9-7
After overcoming her second-seeded England team-mate Vicky Botwright in the quarter-finals, the fifth seed from Harrogate in Yorkshire twice came from behind in the semi-final to upset Dutch opponent Vanessa Atkinson, the third seed, 2-9, 9-3, 2-9, 9-7, 9-7.
Duncalf, now in her fifth WISPA World Tour final, will face top seed Natalie Grainger, the Pan American Games champion from the USA who is aiming for her fifth WISPA World Tour title this year on home soil.
Grainger, from Washington DC, denied Shelley Kitchen the best 28th birthday present she could have hoped for when she beat the New Zealander 9-4, 9-1, 9-3.
The win takes the US champion through to her 34th Tour final since 1996.
Grainger and Duncalf's WISPA head-to-head record is 2-2, but whilst the US favourite prevailed in their two most recent meetings, it was Duncalf that triumphed in their previous clash in the US Open, in October 2003.
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| Issued by Howard Harding on behalf of WISPA Women’s International Squash Players' Association Tel: (+44) 1737-243333; Mobile: (+44) 7773-325130; Email: [email protected] WISPA: Tel: (+44) 20 7222 1667; Email: [email protected] WSQ 4239 2 December 2007 |
