It was the end of the road for Andrew and Graeme Schnell in the Chicago Open in the USA when the Canadian brothers both fell in the quarter-finals of the PSA World Tour Challenger 10 squash event at Life Time Athletic in Vernon Hills, Illinois.<\/p>\n
Qualifier Graeme took a game from Frenchman Joan Lezaud but was unable to stop the 27-year-old from Aix-en-Provence winning 11-9, 13-11, 4-11, 11-6 to become the only unseeded player to make the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
Lezaud goes on to face fourth seed Eric Galvez after the 30-year-old Mexican battled to a 14-12, 5-11, 11-9, 15-13 victory over higher-ranked South African Clinton Leeuw.<\/p>\n
Andrew Schnell, the younger but higher-ranked of the Calgary siblings, met his match in top-seeded New Zealander Martin Knight. The world No47 from Auckland recorded his second straight games win in the event when he despatched 21-year-old Schnell 11-5, 11-9, 11-7.\n<\/p>\n
Graeme Schnell (left) and Andrew Schnell pictured with Extended Stay Manager Beth Mikoley and Hotel sponsor Ashley<\/p>\n
Knight will face Farhan Zaman for a place in the final after the third-seeded Pakistani ended qualifier Karim El Hammamy’s run when he beat the 17-year-old Egyptian 11-7, 8-11, 11-9, 8-11, 11-7.<\/p>\n
Quarter-finals: It was the end of the road for Andrew and Graeme Schnell in the Chicago Open in the USA when the Canadian brothers both fell in the quarter-finals of the PSA World Tour Challenger 10 squash event at Life Time Athletic in Vernon Hills, Illinois.<\/p>\n Qualifier Graeme took a game from Frenchman Joan Lezaud but was unable to stop the 27-year-old from Aix-en-Provence winning 11-9, 13-11, 4-11, 11-6 to become the only unseeded player to make the semi-finals.<\/p>\n Lezaud goes on to face fourth seed Eric Galvez after the 30-year-old Mexican battled to a 14-12, 5-11, 11-9, 15-13 victory over higher-ranked South African Clinton Leeuw.<\/p>\n Andrew Schnell, the younger but higher-ranked of the Calgary siblings, met his match in top-seeded New Zealander Martin Knight. The world No47 from Auckland recorded his second straight games win in the event when he despatched 21-year-old Schnell 11-5, 11-9, 11-7.<\/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-18346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-others"],"yoast_head":"\n
RESULTS: PSA Challenger 10 Chicago Open, Vernon Hills, Illinois, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n
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[1] Martin Knight (NZL) bt Andrew Schnell (CAN) 11-5, 11-9, 11-7
[3] Farhan Zaman (PAK) bt [Q] Karim El Hammamy (EGY) 11-7, 8-11, 11-9, 8-11, 11-7
[4] Eric Galvez (MEX) bt Clinton Leeuw (RSA) 14-12, 5-11, 11-9, 15-13
Joan Lezaud (FRA) bt [Q] Graeme Schnell (CAN) 11-9, 13-11, 4-11, 11-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"