England’s second seed Daryl Selby was taken the full distance by unseeded Frenchman Mathieu Castagnet before surviving a 98-minute quarter-final marathon in the Financi\u00e8re Banque Nationale Montreal Open, the PSA World Tour International 35 squash event in its fifth year in Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n
Playing on an all-glass court at the Montreal Forum, world No14 Selby came back from two games down to beat the rapidly-improving Frenchman – ranked 30 in the world – 8-11, 8-11, 11-3, 11-9, 11-4.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes squash is just about pure grit and determination,” the 30-year-old from Essex told his Twitter followers later. “Proud of myself for digging very deep to beat Mathieu from 2-0 down.”<\/p>\n
Selby, runner-up in the event in 2010, now faces surprise English opponent Adrian Waller, the unseeded world No35 who stunned fourth-seeded compatriot Chris Simpson 11-3, 11-7, 11-9.\n<\/p>\n
Channel Islander Simpson is playing in his first event since celebrating a career-high world No21 ranking this month.<\/p>\n
The other semi-final will be the match predicted by the draw – between Spanish favourite Borja Golan and India’s No3 seed Saurav Ghosal.<\/p>\n
Golan, the world No9 from Santiago de Compostela, also prevailed in a marathon battle – a four-game encounter which lasted 102 minutes, but included a 23-minute injury break.<\/p>\n
Scotland’s world No32 Alan Clyne took the opening game and forced the second to a tie-break – but the Spanish number one ultimately prevailed 9-11, 12-10, 11-5, 11-9.<\/p>\n
Ghosal, the highest-ranked Indian of all-time who celebrated a best-ever world number 17 this month, was also taken to four games by Omar Abdel Aziz – but overcame his 30-year-old Egyptian opponent in less than an hour, winning 11-3, 11-4, 2-11, 11-4.<\/p>\n
“Happy to win my match 3-1 today,” tweeted the 27-year-old from Kolkata later. “Aziz played some good stuff but thankfully my squash was better than yesterday!”<\/p>\n
Quarter-finals:<\/strong><\/p>\n [2] Daryl Selby (ENG) bt Mathieu Castagnet (FRA) 8-11, 8-11, 11-3, 11-9, 11-4 (98m)<\/p>\n Adrian Waller (ENG) bt [4] Chris Simpson (ENG) 11-3, 11-7, 11-9 (45m)<\/p>\n [3] Saurav Ghosal (IND) bt Omar Abdel Aziz (EGY) 11-3, 11-4, 2-11, 11-4 (54m)<\/p>\n [1] Borja Golan (ESP) bt Alan Clyne (SCO) 9-11, 12-10, 11-5, 11-9 (102m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" England’s second seed Daryl Selby was taken the full distance by unseeded Frenchman Mathieu Castagnet before surviving a 98-minute quarter-final marathon in the Financi\u00e8re Banque Nationale Montreal Open, the PSA World Tour International 35 squash event in its fifth year in Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n Playing on an all-glass court at the Montreal Forum, world No14 Selby came back from two games down to beat the rapidly-improving Frenchman – ranked 30 in the world – 8-11, 8-11, 11-3, 11-9, 11-4.<\/p>\n “Sometimes squash is just about pure grit and determination,” the 30-year-old from Essex told his Twitter followers later. “Proud of myself for digging very deep to beat Mathieu from 2-0 down.”<\/p>\n Selby, runner-up in the event in 2010, now faces surprise English opponent Adrian Waller, the unseeded world No35 who stunned fourth-seeded compatriot Chris Simpson 11-3, 11-7, 11-9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-others"],"yoast_head":"\n
RESULTS: PSA International 35 Financi\u00e8re Banque Nationale Montreal Open, Montreal, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n