{"id":13369,"date":"2013-02-10T04:45:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T04:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13369"},"modified":"2013-02-10T04:45:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T04:45:51","slug":"finns-flourish-in-mikkeli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13369","title":{"rendered":"Finns flourish in Mikkeli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mikkeli, Finland:<\/strong> The opening day&#8217;s action in the Savcor Finnish Open produced the dream quarter-final clash when the two top-ranked Finns Olli Tuominen and Henrik Mustonen prevailed in the first round of the long-established PSA World Tour Challenger 15 squash event at Shopping Center Stella in Mikkeli, Finland.<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Top seed Tuominen was tested by qualifier Aqeel Rehman from Austria. &#8220;It took four hard-fought games before Tuominen secured the victory,&#8221; said event spokesman Poku Salo of the 15-13, 11-9, 7-11, 11-8 victory in 48 minutes which takes the defending and four-time champion through to meet Mustonen, the Finnish number two.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mustonen, ranked almost 30 places below his Helsinki rival, faced lucky loser Joan Lezaud &#8211; and beat the Frenchman 11-2, 15-13, 11-6 in 19 minutes.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nordic interest was unexpectedly boosted by Rasmus Nielsen, a qualifier from Denmark who upset England&#8217;s Eddie Charlton 13-11, 9-11, 11-9, 11-6 in 65 minutes.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A second qualifier made it through to the last eight when 19-year-old Egyptian Mohamed Abouelghar recovered from a game down to beat experienced Englishman Chris Ryder, a 32-year-old former world No33, 5-11, 12-10, 11-4, 11-0.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen moves on to face fourth-seeded Czech Jan Koukal, while Abouelghar now takes on fellow countryman Karim Abdel Gawad, the No2 seed who ousted compatriot Andrew Wagih Shoukry 11-8, 11-6, 11-5.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Results: PSA Challenger 15 Savcor Finnish Open, Mikkeli, Finland<\/strong><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/><strong>1st round:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] Olli Tuominen (FIN) bt [Q] Aqeel Rehman (AUT) 15-13, 11-9, 7-11, 11-8 (48m)<br \/>Henrik Mustonen (FIN) bt Joan Lezaud (FRA) 11-2, 15-13, 11-6 (19m)<br \/>[Q] Rasmus Nielsen (DEN) bt Eddie Charlton (ENG) 13-11, 9-11, 11-9, 11-6 (65m)<br \/>[4] Jan Koukal (CZE) bt Muhd Asyraf Azan (MAS) 11-5, 11-9, 3-11, 11-6 (44m)<br \/>[3] Karim Ali Fathi (EGY) bt Mazen Hesham Ga Sabry (EGY) 11-8, 11-6, 11-9 (46m)<br \/>Steven Finitsis (AUS) bt [Q] Evan Williams (NZL) 11-9, 4-11, 11-3, 11-3 (37m)<br \/>[Q] Mohamed Abouelghar (EGY) bt Chris Ryder (ENG) 5-11, 12-10, 11-4, 11-0 (30m)<br \/>[2] Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY) bt Andrew Wagih Shoukry (EGY) 11-8, 11-6, 11-5 (28m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mikkeli, Finland:<\/strong> The opening day&#8217;s action in the Savcor Finnish Open produced the dream quarter-final clash when the two top-ranked Finns Olli Tuominen and Henrik Mustonen prevailed in the first round of the long-established PSA World Tour Challenger 15 squash event at Shopping Center Stella in Mikkeli, Finland.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-others"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Finns flourish in Mikkeli - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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