Egyptian Squash Association

Life Greek Open 2007
19-23 Jun, Athens Greece, $10k

23 Jun:
Mosaad wins battle of Egyptians
Petros Tzamaloukas reports:
Egyptian Omar Mosaad was the winner of Life Greek Open 2007 as he beat in the final compatriot Omar El-Borolossy 11/9 12/10 11/9. The match was pretty close and El-Borolossy could equalise 1-1 games but a couple of close calls gave the second game to Mosaad. The first and third were also very close.
In the finals day the gallery was full and with television broadcast too. Before the final there was an exhibition match between the two Greek champions Petros Tzamaloukas and Fabian Kalaitzis on a very hot Athens night.

22 Jun:
On to the Semi Finals
Petros Tzamaloukas reports:

Semi finals today and the glass court in Zapeion is ready to welcome the players and squash fans. Omar Mosaad was too good for Tom Hoevenaars and the same for Omar El Borolossy against Morten Sorensen. Morten played well in the first game but finally Omar prevailed easy at the last two. Mastrostefano and Hindle complete the semis list with Tasker Grindley leaving Greece with a good run from qualification.

Program on Friday starts at 21.00 with the Classic Open final between Pana Vasiliou and George Vafakos. The two semis finals follow with: Omar Mosaad (Egy) - Luca Mastrostefano (Ita) and Omar El Borolosy (Egy) - Bradley Hindle (Aus).

On Saturday at 21.00 there is scheduled a junior's match and at 21.15 a match against the two Greek champions Fabian Kalaitzis and Petros Tzamaloukas.

Magdi Saad coaches
Nour El Tayeb

2006 Event

al Life Greek Open 2007 19-23 Jun, Athens, Greece, $10k
Round One 20 Jun	Quarters 21 Jun	Semis 22 Jun	Final 23 Jun May
[1] Omar Mosaad (Egy) 11/2, 11/6, 11/2 [Q] Johan Bouquet (Fra)	Omar Mosaad 11/6, 11/7, 11/4 Tom Hoevenaars	Omar Mosaad 3/2 Luca Mastrostefano	Omar Mosaad 11/9, 12/10, 11/9 Omar Elborolossy
[5] Tom Hoevenaars (Ned) 11/6, 12/10, 3/11, 11/8 [Q] Ben Ford (Eng)
[4] Luca Mastrostefano (Ita) 11/7, 11/9/, 11/8 [Q] Niels Hoevenaars (Ned)	Luca Mastrostefano 11/3, 11/8, 4/11, 11/3 Chris Tasker-Grindley
[Q] Chris Tasker-Grindley (Eng) 11/8, 11/7, 11/9 [8] Petros Tzamaloukas (Gre)
Darren Lewis (Eng) [7] Patrick Gaessler (Ger)	Darren Lewis 11/7, 11/2, 11/5 Bradley Hindle	Bradley Hindle 3/1 Omar Elborolossy
Nikolaos Moustroufis (Gre) 11/8, 11/9, 11/6 [3] Bradley Hindle (Aus)
Morten W. Sorenson (Den) 11/9, 11/9, 11/3 [6] Fabian Kalaitzis (Gre)	Morten W. Sorenson 11/8, 11/2, 11/1 Omar Elborolossy
[Q] Robbie Temple (Eng) 11/4, 11/1, 11/5 [2] Omar Elborolossy (Egy)

Qualifying , 2nd Round, 19-Jun:
Chris Tasker Grindley (Eng) bt Jens Schoor (Ger) 5/11 11/3 9/11 11/4 12/10
Johan Bouquet (Fra) bt Leo Tzakos (Gre) 11/4 11/5 11/5
Robbie Temple (Eng) bt George Vafakos (Gre) 11/6 14/12 11/6
Ben Ford (Eng) bt Gilly Lane (Usa) 5/11 11/8 11/8 11/5

Qualifying , 1st Round, 19-Jun:
George Vafakos (Gre) bt George Perisinakis (Gre)11/6 11/8 11/8
Johan Bouquet (Fra) bt Gregory Lecerf (Bel) 11/7 11/7 2/11 11/7
Chris Tasker Grindley (Eng) bt Pana Vasiliou (Gre) 11/3 11/4 11/2
Gilly Lane (Usa) bt Konstantinos Kargiotis (Gre) 11/3 11/4 11/7

Qualifying Complete

The qualification rounds finished yesterday at the Athens club. Unfortunately none of the Greeks could make it to the main draw but two of them lost at the last round.
The most exciting match of all was between Chris Tasker Grindley and Jens Schoor. Chris was 2-1 games down and equalised at 2-2 before being also down 7-10 at the final game. He won the next 5 points in a row and got the place for the main draw where he will face Greek No 2 and local hero Petros Tzamaloukas.
Another exciting match was between Ben Ford and Gilly Lane. Gilly took the first game but after Ben found his rhythm in the hot and bouncy court and finally prevailed 3-1.
Today the main draw begins at the club and from Thursday matches will be moved to the glass court at Zapeion Megaron. Greek champion Fabian Kalaitzis faces Denmark's Morten Sorensen and looks forward to a win in front of the Greek crowd, who want the same for Nikos Moustroufis, the wild carder, against Bradley Hindle but with his task being more difficult. Look forward to see also the first two seeds, Egyptians El Borolossy and Mosaad.