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ICL World Men's Team Championship's, Chennai, India
Final:
[2] ENGLAND bt [4] AUSTRALIA 2-1
Nick Matthew
lost to David Palmer 9-11, 9-11, 11-7, 11-2, 4-11
James
Willstrop bt Stewart Boswell 11-8, 11-7, 11-10(2-0)
Peter Barker
bt Cameron Pilley 11-6, 11-3, 11-8
In a dramatic
climax to the ICL World Men's Team Championships, the 21st staging
of the biennial event since 1967, defending championsEngland fought
back from a match down to beat long-time rivals Australia2/1 in
final at the ICL Squash Academy in Chennai, India.
The triumph
marked the first final between Australia
and England since 1991
and the first ever England
win over Australia
in a World final. The victory also takes England's title tally to four
since 1995, and stopped their rivals from extending their record to nine
trophy triumphs.
The opening
encounter was a battle between Australia's
World No.4David Palmer and England's World No.5 Nick
Matthew. Their previous head-to-head tally showed Palmer 11-5 ahead,
and the 31 year-old former World Champion duly took the opening two games.
But then
Matthew struck back to draw level - winning the fourth game for just two
points. However, the experienced Australian rediscovered his form and
eventually ran out an 11-9 11-9 7-11 2-11 11-4 winner in eighty-two
minutes.
England No.2 James
Willstrop levelled the tie with a 65-minute 11-8 11-7 11-10(2-0)
victory over Stewart Boswell.
The decider
proved no less dramatic, with Englishman Peter Barker, in his maiden
appearance in a World Team Championships, delivering an assured performance
to defeat Cameron Pilley
11-6 11-3 11-8
in sixty minutes to clinch the title for England.
In the play-off
for third place, third seeds France
beat favourites Egypt
2/0, and Malaysia
recorded their best ever finish by beating Canada 2/0 in the fifth
place play-off. Hosts India
marked their best finish since 1979, despite losing to Netherlands
in the seventh place play-off.
3rd place
play-off:
[3] FRANCE bt
[1] EGYPT 2-0
Gregory
Gaultier bt Amr Shabana 11-2, 11-7, 9-11, 11-3
Thierry Lincou
bt Wael El Hindi 11-4, 6-11, 11-5, 11-3
5th place
play-off:
[5] MALAYSIA
bt [6] CANADA 2-0
Mohd Azlan
Iskandar bt Shahier Razik 11-10(2-0), 11-10 (3-1), 11-5
Ong Beng Hee
bt Matthew Giuffre 11-7, 11-6, 11-7
7th place
play-off:
[8]
NETHERLANDS bt [10] INDIA 2-0
Laurens Jan
Anjema bt Saurav Ghosal 11-10(3-1), 11-4, 11-4
Dylan Bennett
bt Ritwik Bhattacharya 11-6, 11-4, 11-7
9th place
play-off:
[7] PAKISTAN
bt [9] WALES 2-0
Aamir Atlas
Khan bt Alex Gough 11-5, 11-9, 11-10(2-0)
Mansoor Zaman
bt Rob Sutherland 11-9, 11-5, 11-9
11th place
play-off:
[12] SOUTH
AFRICA bt [11] IRELAND 2-1
Jesse
Engelbrecht lost to Liam Kenny 3-11, 6-11, 9-11
Stephen
Coppinger bt Derek Ryan 11-10 (2-0), 11-2, 11-3
Adrian Hansen
bt Arthur Gaskin 11-6, 11-6, 11-7
13th place
play-off:
[13] NEW
ZEALAND bt [14] USA 2-0
Kashif Shuja
bt Julian Illingworth 11-7, 11-9, 7-11, 11-10(3-1)
Campbell Grayson
bt Christopher Gordon 11-3, 11-6, 11-1
15th place
play-off:
[15] HONG KONG
bt [16] GERMANY 2-1
Dick Lau lost
to Simon Rosner 2-11, 9-11, 8-11
Wai Hang Wong
bt Tim Weber 11-4, 5-11, 11-9, 11-6
Max Lee bt
Moritz Dahmen 7-11, 11-8, 11-5, 11-8
17th place
play-off:
[17/24] SWEDEN
bt [17/24] SCOTLAND 2-0
Christian
Drakenberg bt Alan Clyne 11-4, 11-2, 11-10(2-0)
Badr Abdel
Aziz bt Stuart Crawford 11-6, 11-8, 11-6
19th place
play-off:
[17/24] SPAIN
bt [17/24] JAPAN 2-0
David Vidal bt
Jun Matsumoto 11-5, 11-0, 11-7
Alejandro
Garbi Caro bt Takanori Shimizu 11-5, 11-10(3-1), 11-6
21st place
play-off:
[17/24]
FINLAND bt [17/24] KUWAIT 2-1
Matias Tuomi
bt Bader Al Hussaini 7-11, 6-11, 11-4, 11-4, 11-9
Henrik
Mustonen lost to Abdullah Almezayen 5-11, 3-11, 6-11
Mika Monto bt
Nasser B Al-Ramzi 6-11, 6-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-5
23rd place
play-off:
[17/24] KENYA
bt [17/24] AUSTRIA 2-1
Hardeep Reel
bt Aqeel Rehman 11-9, 11-10 (4-2), 11-10(5-3)
Hartaj Bains
lost to Jakob Dirnberger 8-11, 9-11, 9-11
Otto Kwach bt
Stefan Brauneis 11-10 (2-0), 11-9, 11-8
25th place
play-off:
[25/29] SRI
LANKA bt [25/29] BERMUDA 2-0
Saman
Thilakaratna bt Chase Toogood 11-5, 11-9, 11-5
Navin
Samarasinghe bt Melrindo Caines 11-3, 11-2, 11-4
27th place
play-off:
[25/29] RUSSIA
bt [25/29] VENEZUELA 2-1
Alexei
Severinov bt Francisco Valecillo 11-8, 11-8, 11-7
Sergey
Kostrykin lost to Juan Pablo Sanchez 10-11(2-4), 10-11(0-2), 6-11
Valery
Litvinko bt Luis Hernandes 11-5, 11-5, 11-8
29th place
play-off:
[25/29]
CHINESE TAIPEI bye
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