Girls' Team Pools

Girls' Team Pools                      pool matches on Mon-Wed, playoffs Thu-Sat    Mon 22nd, Day ONE:    A: Egypt 3-0 Australia , New Zealand 3-0 Poland   B: USA 3-0 France , Canada 3-0 Czech Rep.   C: England 3-0 Japan , India 3-0 South Africa   D: Hong Kong 3-0 Colombia , Malaysia 3-0 Germany Tue 23rd, Day TWO:   A:  Egypt 3-0 New Zealand , Australia 3-0 Poland   B:  USA 3-0 Canada , France 3-0 Czech Rep.   C:  England 3-0 India , Japan 1-2 South Africa   D:  Hong Kong 3-0 Malaysia , Colombia 1-2 Germany  Dear All, Order of play was 2,1,3. So Rachel went on 1st against Ho Tze Lok. Both started of the 1st game playing cautious squash and Rachel got the 1st few points off good lenghts and good boasts. 4-1, 8-4 and never let her get into the game. 2nd game totally opposite and went for shot early in the game made 3 mistakes and was 0-3 down and opponent played a couple of good shots and was 1-5 down and never really recovered from that and lost 4-11.  Woke up in the 3rd playing good lenghts, couple with her good serve and good drops 5-0, then 6-1, and went on to win 11-4. Started the 4th again making errors and was 1-4 down and 6-9 down but managed to pull herself together to crawl back to 9 all. Then 10 all and 11 all but 2 errors saw her throw away the game 11-13. 5th was a waste of time as she made a lot of errors and didn't really play like she wanted to win, lost 3-11. Vanessa went on next to play Ho Kak Po and lost 6=11, 8-11, 7-11. Played to quick to the front early on in the game and got punished with either counter drops or drives to the back and lost the 1st in 6. The 2nd was really close with her keeping it more to the back and putting it short when the time is right and was close till 8 all then a couple of loose shots and an error saw her lose in 8. 3rd again was close till 7 all then game fell apart and lost in 7. Either she plays to much to the front when her opponent is already in the front or ball hits the side wall and falls loose in the middle and sets up her opponent to play winners. Celine was next and played Choi Uen Shan and lost 7-11, 10-12, 3-11. I feel that if either on the girls had won things could have been different as the HK girl looked nervous. Not a bad result from Celine but again could not get her cross courts wide a lot of the time and could have got a couple of strokes in front if her racket had been up earlier. This could have altered the result. Thanks,
Pool A [1] Egypt           W2 [8] New Zealand W1 Australia            W1 Poland              W0	Pool B [2] USA          W2 [7] Canada      W1 France            W1 Czech Rep.      W0	Pool C [3] England     W2 [6] India         W1 South Africa    W1 Japan             W0	Pool E [4] Hong Kong   W2 [5] Malaysia      W1 Germany           W1 Colombia           W0