WORLD SQUASH NEWS RESULTS: Women's Texas Open Squash Championship, Dallas, USA Final: [1] Carol Owens (NZL) bt [2] Natalie Pohrer (USA) 9-10, 9-1, 9-4, 9-1 (47m) Carol Owens Retains Texas Title New Zealand's top seed Carol Owens overcame a first game deficit against second seed Natalie Pohrer to beat the US No1 in the final of the $45,000 Women's Texas Open Squash Championship and retain the title she first won in 2002. It was the third leg of the battle for supremacy between the current world number one and two - fought out on the WISPA all-glass court on the atrium ice rink in the Plaza of the Americas in downtown Dallas, USA, and watched by a large and enthusiastic gallery of squash enthusiasts from Texas cities and beyond. Pohrer, the 25-year-old world No2 from St Louis, had beaten Owens in a pulsating five-game World Open semi-final last November, winning 10-8 in the decider. When they next met last month in the final of the Arader & O'Rourke Tournament of Champions at Grand Central Station in New York, the match also took five games to resolve - this time Owens coming out on top. Pohrer came out of the blocks fastest in Dallas, racing to an 8-2 lead in the first game before the New Zealander began to settle. Owens' volleying became more fluent and drops more dangerous as she began to eat into the lead. Eventually, after saving six game balls, Owens pulled level at eight-all. Another was saved at 8-9 before two tinned boasts took the New Zealander to her first game ball. This was saved, before Pohrer delivered an attacking boast to finally take a 1/0 lead after 27 minutes - 18 minutes after first serving for the game! The second game started in similar fashion to the first, but this time it was the New Zealander who rapidly progressed to 8-0. Although she picked up one point, Pohrer was unable to stage a comeback and Owens closed at 9-1 to level the match. Both players were now employing a combination of attacking boasts and higher floating balls, but Pohrer could only win rallies rather than points as she didn't have enough patience as the Owens score climbed. The Auckland-based defending champion, competing in her 45th WISPA World Tour final, reached game ball at 8-1 before Pohrer staged a mini revival created by forging openings at the front and putting away volleys. But a tinned one at 4-8 allowed Owens to move two games to one ahead. The second seed was still finding it difficult to deal with Owens' athleticism, resolution and accurate placement - despite the vocal support of the crowd. Pohrer had finally reached meltdown. Owens reached match ball and, though denied the first time by a deft cross court drop, took it the second time with a stroke to win 9-10 9-1 9-4 9-1 in 47 minutes, thus reinforcing her hold on the top spot in the WISPA World rankings. After her third title win of the year, Owens was especially pleased: "I don't think that I have had back to back wins before so I am pretty happy. I've had a great week - it has been superbly staged and we have been so well looked after." Meanwhile Natalie reflected on her third runner-up position of the year: "The first game was tough but I was a little too sluggish, my length a little too short, my lobs too low. What a melon!"