RESULTS: CIMB KL Open
Squash Championships, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Men's final:
[4] Ong Beng Hee (MAS) bt [3]
Mohd Azlan Iskandar (MAS) 11-8, 11-10 (5-3), 11-10 (2-0) (66m)
Women's final:
[1] Nicol David (MAS) bt [2]
Natalie Grinham (NED) 9-4, 9-2, 9-2 (35m)
Nicol David
and Ong Beng Hee
provided the perfect result for their home nation by winning the women's and
men's titles, respectively, in the CIMB KL Open Squash Championships
at Berjaya Times Square in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.
In a fierce all-Malaysian
final of the men's 5-star PSA Tour event, Ong Beng Hee proved the
latest world rankings correct - rather than the event's seeding - by beating
third seed Mohd Azlan Iskandar 11-8, 11-10 (5-3), 11-10 (2-0) in 66
minutes.
It was third time lucky for
Beng Hee, who was runner-up in 1999 and 2006. Seeded fourth, the Penang-born
28-year-old overtook compatriot Iskandar in the latest March Dunlop PSA world
rankings, moving up to 17.
The KL Open win marks Beng
Hee's 11th PSA Tour title triumph - but his first since winning
the Malaysian Open in November 2005.
Nicol David, the world number
one from Penang, was celebrating her 40th appearance in a WISPA
World Tour final in the climax of the WISPA Gold event in KL.
Furthermore, the 24-year-old defending champion was facing long-time rival
Natalie Grinham in their ninth successive meeting in a WISPA final.
But David, unbeaten since
October, was too strong for the former Australian who was competing in her
first event since switching allegiance to the Netherlands, where she has been
based for the past nine years.
Nicol David stormed to a 9-4,
9-2, 9-2 win in just 35 minutes - not only picking up her fifth KL Open crown
since 2000, but also bringing her WISPA trophy haul to 26, just one Tour
title shy of Rachael Grinham, Natalie's older sister who boasts 27.
Issued on
behalf of: PSA/WISPA