Squash: World champion Matthew made to fight

DOHA: World champion Nick Matthew admitted he was in trouble against Australia’s Zac Alexander who might have been using ‘reverse psychology’, before carrying his bid to achieve a title hat-trick into the last-16 on Monday. Matthew was made to fight for survival before coming through 8-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-5 against Alexander who packed his bags for the airport and brought them in the car they shared en route the arena. “For the first game and a half I wasn’t anywhere,” said Matthew. “I don’t know if packing his bags was reverse psychology, but he played really well and I had to get my act together.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 12^th, 2012.