WORLD SQUASH NEWS
RESULTS: Charter Consulting Windy City Squash Open, Chicago, USA
Semi-finals:
[1] Paul Price (AUS) bt [3] Renan Lavigne (FRA) 15-4, 15-12, 15-14
[4] Gregory Gaultier (FRA) bt [5] Shahier Razik (CAN) 15-9, 14-15, 15-9,
15-13
Price & Gaultier Line Up For Windy City Final
Australia's No1 seed Paul Price and fourth-seeded Frenchman Gregory Gaultier
will meet in the final of the $15,000 Charter Consulting Windy City Squash
Open after contrasting semi-final victories in Chicago, USA.
Gaultier, 20, from Aix-en-Provence, needed two minutes short of two hours to
overcome Canada's 5th seed Shahier Razik 15-9 14-15 15-9 15-13 to celebrate
his second successive appearance in the Chicago event final.
Price's straight games win marked a morale-boosting return to a PSA Tour
final for the former world No4 for the first time since February 2001.
Plagued by back injuries, the 2000 British Open runner-up has failed to reach
a PSA event quarter-final for more than a year. Now ranked 21 in the world,
the 26-year-old from Melbourne despatched France's third seed Renan Lavigne
15-4 15-12 15-14 to celebrate his 15th final appearance since 1996.