Main Draw Set in $50K Women's Cleveland Classic by Ray Lindsay January 31, 2014
Qualifying Finals:
Match 1: Rachel Grinham versus Nour El Tayeb El Tayeb won 11/5, 11/5, 11/5 3/0 to Nour The Egyptian girl
showed silky skills in defeating former World Champion Grinham in a
match that last 35 minutes. A lack of length from Rachel meant Nour
could dominate the match showing impressive touch and deception.
Match 2: Line Hansen versus Sarah Kippax Kippax won 11/8, 11/6, 5/11, 11/9 1 hour 5 1st game had a
few disputed lets, Line made a few crucial errors in the middle of the
game that gave Kippax a buffer to end the game. 2nd game Line started
well with a 3/1 lead but a series on unforced errors proved her
downfall. Kippax got in front and dominated play, forcing the errors. 3rd game was a reverse of the 2nd,Line managed to get in front and force errors, Line won…. 4th game, Line had a
handy lead 6/1 then made a few errors to get Kippax in the game,
Kippax drew even and finally pulled away to win a tough game 10/9
Match 3: Lastasha Khan versus Annie Au Au won 11/4, 12/10, 11/3 Annie showed fantastic speed around the court and made very few mistakes to win the first 11/4 2nd game Khan came out
a lot stronger playing better length 9/10 a lucky service nick got her
to 10/10 all but she could not capitalize and lost 10/12 3rd was Annie all the way winning 11/3
Match 4: The last match of the night was the best. Emma Bedddes versus Nour El Sherbini El Sherbini won 12/10, 15/13, 11/3 The English girl was up 10/8 in the first then hit the tin, which gave Nour an opportunity, which she took, winning 10/8 The second game was
the longest of the night,Beddes again up but could not finish, Nour
never gave up and ended up winning a great game 15/13 The 3rd game was a bit of a procession, with El Sherbini winning in 8 minutes 11/8
