Rochester Pro 2008

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Players
The Rochester Pro 2008 Squash Tournament boasted a 13 man qualifying draw and a 16 man main draw. The players were rated from No. 76 to No. 345 in the world and hail from USA, Australia, Egypt, Pakistan, Canada, Sri Lanka Mexico, South Africa, England, Botswana.

Main Draw

Seed	Name	Country	PSA Ranking
1	Patrick Chifunda	ZAM	127
2	Andrew McDougall	CAN	130
3	Michal Reid	CAN	154
4	Fernando Lopez	MEX	176
5	Ahmed Maged Hamza	EGY	178
6	Armando Olguin	MEX	216
7	Arturo Castillo	MEX	222
8	Jacques Swanepoel	RSA	230
9	Joe Millman	ENG	240
10	Navin Samarasinghe	SRI	256
11	Salvador Martinez	MEX	258
12	Jim Bristow (*Wildcard)(UR Squash)	ENG

Qualifier Draw

Seed	Name	Country	PSA Ranking
Q1	Jason Delierre	CAN	261
Q2	Bruno Vega	ESP	301
Q3	Maxym Leclair	CAN	353
Q4	Graham Bassett	USA	353
Q5	Gavin Lee Perett	ENG	353
Q6	Dan Roberts	IRL	353
Q7	Lekgotla Mosope	BOT
Local	Hameed Ahmed (UR Squash)	FIN
Local	Will Newnham (UR Squash)	ENG
Local	Fred Reid (UR Squash)	CAN
Local	Yohay Wakabayashi (UR Squash)	JAP
Local	Edwin Goncharuk (UR Squash)	USA

DRAWS AND SCHEDULE:
Qualifying results (Thursday April 3rd 2008):

Qualifying finals:
Jason Delierre bt. Dan Roberts (11-6, 11-7, 11-7)
Lekgotla Mosope bt. Graham Bassett (12-10, 11-4, 11-8)
Will Newnham bt. Maxym Leclair (15-13, 15-13, 11-2)
Hameed Ahmed bt. Bruno Vega (11-3, 11-6, 12-10)

Qualifying Round 1:
Jason Delierre – Bye
Dan Roberts bt. Yohay Wakabayashi (11-4, 11-4, 11-5)
Graham Roberts – Bye
Lekgotla Mosope bt. Edwin Goncharuk (11-5, 11-7, 11-6)
Will Newnham bt. Gavin Lee Perrett (11-4, 11-9, 7-11, 11-6)
Maxym Leclair – Bye
Hameed Ahmed bt. Fred Reid (11-8, 11-5, 11-7)
Bruno Vega – Bye

Main Draw
Round 1 Apr 4th 6:00 pm	Quarters Apr 5th 11:00 am	Semis Apr 5th 6:00 pm	Final Apr 6th 12:00 pm
[1]Patrick Chifunda (ZAM) (11-9, 11-2, 10-12, 11-4) [Q1] Hameed Ahmed (FIN)	Patrick Chifunda (11-8, 5-11, 11-1, 11-9) Salvador Martinez	Patrick Chifunda (7-11, 11-7, 11-10 (2-0), 11-4) Lekgotla Mosope	Patrick Chifunda (6-11, 11-8, 5-11, 11-5, 11-9) Ahmed Hamza
[8] Jacques Swanepoel (RSA) (11-9, 6-11, 11-8, 11-8) Salvador Martinez (MEX)
[4] Fernando Lopez (MEX) (11-9, 7-11, 11-9, 11-4) [Q2] Will Newnham (ENG)	Fernando Lopez (11-4, 11-6, 9-11, 11-6) Lekgotla Mosope
[6] Armando Olguin (MEX) (11-6, 11-3, 11-4) [Q3] Lekgotla Mosope (BOT)
[Q4] Jason Delierre (CAN) (14-12, 11-9, 11-7) [5] Ahmed Maged Hamza (EGY)	Ahmed Maged Hamza (8-11, 8-11, 11-5, 11-4, 11-6) Michal Reid	Ahmed Hamza (11-8, 11-8, 11-4) Andrew McDougall
[WC] Jim Bristow (ENG) (11-7, 11-3, 11-9) [3] Michal Reid (CAN)
Navin Samarasinghe (SRI) (11-7, 13-11, 11-4) [7] Arturo Castillo (MEX)	Arturo Castillo (11-6, 8-11, 11-4, 11-6) Andrew McDougall
Joe Millman (ENG) (11-5, 11-2, 11-3)[2] Andrew McDougall [CAN]

AMATEUR CITY TOURNAMENT:
Congratulations to all the 2008 amateur event winners!!! A big thank you to the amateur tournament director, Hugh Higgins and Morgan Smith who took care of logistics in the background for running the event so smoothly.

Winners:
5.0 – Yohay Wakabayashi bt. Chris Fennell (3-1)
4.0 – Pat Harris bt. Dan Carson (3-1)
3.5 – David Lockwood bt. Takayuki Koizumi (3-0)
3.0 – Bernie Auer bt. Nick Zarcone (3-0)

Consolation:
5.0 – Ryan Evans bt. Thomson Chew (3-2)
4.0 – James Azurin bt. Dave Sullivan (3-1)
3.5 – Charlie Follett bt. Troy Zarcone (3-1)
3.0 – Adam Brunner bt.Joe Smrcka (3-0)

Photos from the final day (by Paul Schwartz):

Arturo Castillo, Mithun Mukherjee, Gavin Lee Perrett, Daryl Goldman06-Apr-2008 12:24, NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D200, 2.5, 50.0mm, 0.003 sec, ISO 1250