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Kinetic 5k Challenger 2022 |
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Kinetic 5k Challenger 2022
Women's Draw
22 - 25 Nov
Florida, USA, $6k |
Final:
[1] Wen Li Lai (MAS) bt [5] Maria Moya (ECU) 11-7, 11-7, 11-5 (33m)
Semi-finals:
[1] Wen Li Lai (MAS) bt Anna Shumway (USA) 11-2, 11-6, 11-4 (24m)
[5] Maria Moya (ECU) bt Risa Sugimoto (JPN) 12-10, 11-4, 8-11, 11-6
(31m)
Quarter-finals:
[1] Wen Li Lai (MAS) bt Riya Navani (USA) 12-10, 11-6, 12-10 (36m)
Anna Shumway (USA) bt Mary Mijas (GUA) 11-4, 11-8, 11-7 (20m)
Risa Sugimoto (JPN) bt [3] Erisa Sano Herring (JPN) 11-8, 13-15, 7-11,
11-7, 11-6 (41m)
[5] Maria Moya (ECU) bt [2] Hannah Blatt (CAN) 11-6, 11-4, 11-4 (20m)
1st round:
[1] Wen Li Lai (MAS) bt Emilia Falconi (ECU) 11-0, 11-3, 11-2 (17m)
Riya Navani (USA) bt [6] Hana Ismail (EGY) 11-6, 7-11, 12-10, 11-8 (39m)
Anna Shumway (USA) bt [7] Noorena Shams (PAK) 11-1, 11-1, 11-0 (9m)
Mary Mijas (GUA) bt [4] Sara Khan (CAN) 9-11, 17-15, 7-11, 11-6, 11-5
(36m)
[3] Erisa Sano Herring (JPN) bt Isabella Tang (USA) 11-5, 11-5, 11-6
(17m)
Risa Sugimoto (JPN) bt [8] Sana Bahadar (PAK) 11-2, 11-1, 11-5 (15m)
[5] Maria Moya (ECU) bt Natalie de Champlain (USA) 11-1, 11-3, 11-3
(15m)
[2] Hannah Blatt (CAN) bt Hannah Guthrie (CAN) 11-3, 11-4, 11-4 (17m) |
Final
Lai Wins Second Title Of Season
Wen Li Lai (left) and Maria Moya (right)
Malaysia’s Wen Li Lai has won her second title in as many months, after
coming through the Kinetic 5k Challenger without dropping a single game.
The Malaysian came into the Challenger 5 level women’s draw as the top
seed, and started her week in Boynton Beach, Florida with a commanding
performance. She dropped just five points in an 11-0, 11-3, 11-2 victory
over Ecuador’s Emilia Falconi on Tuesday evening.
Her quarter final contest was trickier, as she needed two tie-breaks in
a straight games victory over American junior Riya Navani. Lai won both
the first and third games 12-10 in that win, before then dropping only
twelve points in the semi-finals against another unseeded American, Anna
Shumway.
The final saw Lai take on No.5 seed Maria Moya of Ecuador, and once
again, the Malaysian made it look comfortable. She won the first couple
of games 11-7 before the third was taken 11-5, as she claimed her second
win of the season.
The win comes four weeks after her first victory of the campaign, at the
Greenwich Open. She was No.2 seed that week and got the better of
England’s Alicia Mead, the top seed, in the final. |
Semi Final
Lai and Moya Set For Final Battle
Malaysia’s Wen Li Lai and Ecuadorian Maria Moya will meet in the final
of the women’s event at the Kinetic 5k Challenger in Florida.
Top seed Wen Li Lai took on unseeded American Anna Shumway in the last
four of the Challenger 5 level competition, and she was in complete
control. The Malaysian dropped just twelve points in a 24-minute,
straight games victory over the American, winning 11-2, 11-6, 11-4.
She will now face Ecuador’s Maria Moya in the final on Friday evening,
after the Ecuadorian fought past Japan’s Risa Sugimoto in a four-game
battle. Moya won the first on a tie-break, before easily taking the
second 11-4. The unseeded Japanese player fought back to take the third
game, but the No.5 seed won the fourth to move through to the final.
The final of the Kinetic Women’s Challenger will take place on Friday,
November 25, with Wen Li Lai and Maria Moya doing battle for the
Challenger 5 level title. |
Quarter Finals
Sugimoto Wins All-Japanese Clash
The quarter finals of the Kinetic Women’s Challenger saw an all-Japanese
battle, with unseeded Risa Sugimoto downing No.3 seed Erisa Sano Herring
to make the last four.
Sugimoto, the World No.298, got the better of the No.8 seed in the
opening round, and came up against compatriot Herring on day two of the
Challenger 5 level competition in Florida.
After winning the first game, she saw her fellow Japanese player win the
second on a tie-break 15-13, before then taking the third as well.
However, Sugimoto fought back to win both of the last two games to
secure a victory, and to move through to the last four.
She will now face Ecuador’s Maria Moya, after the No.5 seed got the
better of No.2 seed Hannah Blatt in straight games on Wednesday evening.
The Ecuadorian was in sublime form, winning 11-6, 11-4, 11-4 to move
into the semi-finals in Boynton Beach.
The other semi-final will see top seed Wen Li Lai take on American Anna
Shumway, after the pair both came through their respective last eight
clashes in straight games. Shumway downed Mary Mijas, while the
Malaysian beat Riya Navani.
The semi-finals of the women’s event at the Kinetic 5k Challenger will
take place in Florida on Thursday, November 24.
For more information on the event, Where available see the
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Preview
For more information on the event, Where available see the
PSA Live Scores page, or
follow on
PSAChallengerTourLivestreams,
Facebook,
Twitter,
Instagram
&
TikTok. Selected
Challenger Tour Events will also be shown live on
SQUASHTV.
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