Seeds Progress In Baltimore

The top four seeds progressed through to the semi-finals of the Baltimore Cup, but they were made to work for their places in the last four of the $10,000 PSA Tour squash event at Baltimore Country Club in Baltimore, USA.

South African qualifiers Jacques Swanepoel and Regardt Schonborn both tested their higher-ranked opponents. Schonborn and Bernardo Samper, the fourth seed from Colombia, were team-mates while studying together at Trinity - and their familiarity with each others games was obvious.

There were some excellent points and the match was played in a superb spirit but Samper emerged the victor 11-7, 11-9, 10-11 (0-2), 11-6 in 55 minutes - and now faces US champion Julian Illingworth for a place in the final.

Quarter-finals:
[1] Miguel Angel Rodriguez (COL) bt [Q] Jacques Swanepoel (RSA) 11-7, 11-5, 8-11, 11-8 (47m)
[3] Yasser El Halaby (EGY) bt [Q] Arturo Salazar (MEX) 11-6, 11-4, 11-4 (35m)
[4] Bernardo Samper (COL) bt [Q] Regardt Schonborn (RSA) 11-7, 11-9, 10-11 (0-2), 11-6 (55m)
[2] Julian Illingworth (USA) bt [7] Laurent Elriani (FRA) 11-6, 11-7, 11-4 (43m)