Avila Avenges Edmonton Loss For Florida Win by Howard Harding 9 December 2013
- Just a week after losing to the lower-ranked Pakistani in the opening
round of the Edmonton Open in Canada, Mexico's Alfredo Avila earned his
revenge in the ideal way by beating Farhan Zaman in the final of the
5th Annual Betty F Griffin Florida State Open Squash Championship to
win the PSA World Tour Challenger 10 title at the Lifetime Athletic
Club in Boca Raton in the US state of Florida.
Top seed Avila reached
the final - his seventh on the Tour - after a four-game win over Hisham
Mohd Ashour, the former World No.11 from Egypt making his return to the
international circuit after a seven-month break.
Second seed Zaman, the
World No.68 from Peshawar, also needed four games to overcome unseeded
Frenchman Johan Bouquet in the other semi to reach his third Tour final
of the year.
Still smarting from his premature exit in Alberta, 22-year-old Avila was determined to make amends.
The World No.62 from
Mexico City duly despatched Zaman 11-9, 11-7, 11-5 to win the fifth PSA
World Tour title of his career - and his second Florida State Open
crown since 2010.
RESULTS: PSA Challenger 10 Betty F Griffin Florida State Open Squash Championship, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Semi-finals: [1] Alfredo Avila (MEX) bt [4] Hisham Mohd Ashour (EGY) 11-8, 5-11, 11-7, 11-5 [2] Farhan Zaman (PAK) bt Johan Bouquet (FRA) 13-11, 7-11, 14-12, 11-4
