Bradley Battles To Wong Win In Papa New Guinea

Australia's Bradley Hindle battled for 55 minutes in tropical conditions in Papua New Guinea to cause the major upset of the day when he twice came from behind to overcome Hong Kong's fifth seed Wai Hang Wong in a tight five-game quarter-final encounter in the Steel Industries PNG International.

The match see-sawed back and forth with no player able to assert their dominance for a sustained period of time. The 24-year-old Queenslander managed to hold it together at the right time and took the final game to win 7-11 11-3 3-11 11-3 11-8 to make the semi-finals of a 1.5 star PSA Tour event for the first time.

Hindle, the seventh seed, will now face Malaysian favourite Mohd Azlan Iskandar, who coasted to a comfortable 11-5 11-5 11-3 win over Australian Cameron White in the first quarter final of the night. The Sarawak-born 23-year-old never looked troubled during the encounter which lasted 35 minutes.

The other semi-final will feature Australians Timothy Manning and Cameron Pilley. Manning, the third seed, defeated compatriot Paul Davis 11-5 11-5 11-0 in 34 minutes, while second-seeded Pilley was in scintillating form as he despatched fellow Australian Institute of Sport attendee Aaron Frankcomb 11-2 11-4 11-2 in just 24 minutes.

Quarter-finals:
[1] Mohd Azlan Iskandar (MAS) bt [5] Cameron White (AUS) 11-5, 11-5, 11-3 (35m)
[7] Bradley Hindle (AUS) bt [4] Wai Hang Wong (HKG) 7-11, 11-3, 3-11, 11-3, 11-8 (55m)
[3] Timothy Manning (AUS) bt Paul Davis (AUS) 11-5, 11-5, 11-0 (34m)
[2] Cameron Pilley (AUS) bt [6] Aaron Frankcomb (AUS) 11-2, 11-4, 11-2 (24m)