RESULTS: Women's
Central Bank Texas Open Squash Championship, Houston, USA
Final:
[1] Natalie
Grainger (USA) bt [3] Laura Lengthorn-Massaro (ENG) 9-2, 9-5, 9-6
US
squash star Natalie Grainger successfully defended her Women's
Central Bank Texas Open title when she beat England's Laura
Lengthorn-Massaro in straight games in the final of the $27,600 WISPA
World Tour event at Downtown Club at the Met in Houston,
USA.
After claiming
an unexpected place in the final following her upset over third-seeded New
Zealander Shelley Kitchen in the previous round, third seed
Lengthorn-Massaro put in a feisty performance against the favourite from
Washington DC.
There were
many long exchanges in the second and third games that forced Grainger to
remain focused, but in the end the 30-year-old world number four cranked it
up a notch to win 9-2, 9-5, 9-6 and secure the crown for the second year in a
row.
The win marks
Grainger's 18th WISPA Tour title - and the seventh on her new
'home soil' since becoming a US citizen in February 2007.
