David’s performance in an 11-2, 11-5, 11-2 win suggested she has become an even shorter odds favourite to win the title a fifth time and equal the record of the great Australian Sarah FitzGerald. She was able to take the ball extremely early, move her opponent around, and make time for herself to play a wide range of strokes she sometimes prefers not to use.
“It’s always hard when you are playing against your teammate,” said David. “But it’s the quarter-final of the World Open and you have to try and play your best squash.”
David now plays Alison Waters, the third-seeded English player who twice gave her hard matches in the Far East recently.
Earlier Camille Serme upset the seedings for the second day in a row to become the first French woman to reach the semi-finals of the World Open.
Serme, who had overcome the eighth-seed Laura Massaro in four games on Sunday, now beat another English player, Jenny Duncalf, 8-11, 11-7, 7-11, 11-2, 11-5.
The world number nine now plays the home heroine Omneya Abdel Kawy who registered an 11-8, 14-12, 6-11, 11-5 win against Kasey Brown. AFP
Published in The Express Tribune, September 22nd, 2010.
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