Chemtech WPRO World Championships presented by Ektelon Round of 32
April 19th, 2008 by Adam Katz
The lower half of the overall draw is now down to the Round of 16 and once again the three game theme came through as these players tried to conserve energy for this afternoon’s battles. The draw can be found HERE.
World #2, Cheryl Gudinas Holmes (Naperville, IL) led off this series of matches on the show court as she brought her brand of precision racquetball to the crowd and saw off the challenge of Beth Sacco (River Ridge, LA). Beth played very well in this one, but Cheryl stayed calm throughout to pull away at the end of each game.
World #7, Brenda Kyzer (Leesville, SC) also swept through the Round of 32 in her match against Catherine Nichols-Dickinson (Ridgeville, Ontario, Canada). Brenda is certainly hitting solid right now and will now start to focus on her Round of 16 match this afternoon.
World #11, Doreen Fowler (Silver Spring, MD) also came through in three tight games with Laura Brandt (Southwest Ranches, FL) and will now face Brenda Kyzer for a spot in Saturday’s quarterfinals.
This round of matches did produce the first 5 game marathon of the tournament in the match up between World #16, Keely Franks (Euless, TX) and World #19, Jennifer Saunders (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada). This match was simply a matter of changing momentum as these ladies battled point for point through 5 long games. The match came in at just over 2 hours and 10 minutes, although it looked early on as though Jennifer would settle this one in 4 games as she had the 2-1 lead in games and a 5-0 lead in points. However, Keely fought back and took advantage of a series of skip balls by Jennifer to force the tiebreaker. That tiebreaker was a tense back and forth affair until Keely went on the run that brought her to the brink of the match at 10-6. Jennifer wasn’t about to let this one slip away though and she slowly fought back point by point to 10-9. Finally, on her 5th attempt to serve for the match, Keely hit the serve that forced the skip ba ll return and gave her the match and a Round of 16 meeting with World #2, Cheryl Gudinas Holmes (Naperville, IL).
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