Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Saurav comes from 2 games down to win thriller


El Gouna (Egypt), April 9, 2012: Saurav Ghosal came from 2 games down to beat Robbie Temple 8-11, 9-11, 11-9, 11-7, 11-4 in a 85-minute thriller in international squash championships here.

First up in the nice and compact single court at the lovely Movenpick Resort, Egypt was India’s speedy Saurav Ghosal against left –handed qualifier Robbie Temple from England. Robbie is believed to be as strong with his right hand too.

The Englishman was quick off his blocks and made headway in the opening games and sailed through the first 2 games easily. Saurav lifted his game and made a strong comeback in the third and the fourth game with relative ease. Saurav made an aggressive start to the fifth game and he took the final set extremely comfortably to win the 85 minutes thriller to advance to the last sixteen.

“I had to dig pretty hard to win this,” admitted Ghosal. “Winning the 3rd helped, but he was still in it. In the 4th, I had a good spell, and I started to believe, felt more confident. And physically, I felt fine”, he said.

Press release

No comments:

Post a Comment