Championships - Girls' British Open Amateur Championship 2010
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Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell)
12.08.2010
Lisa Maguire through to Quarter Finals in Belfast
Top seed Julie Yang was by knocked out by the 48th qualifier, Laura Sedda from Vicenza, Italy in this morning’s third round of the Girls’ British open amateur championship at a windy Royal Belfast course.Laura scored a shock 4 and 3 win over the 15-year-old Musselburgh-based South Korean after winning the first three holes.
“I played really good because the conditions were very windy,” said 17-year-old Laura who won the Scottish Under-16 girls’ title three years ago and is the current Italian Under-18 girls’ champion.
“I must have been about level par for the match because I had birides at the third and the 11th and a double bogey at the eighth,” she said.
Julie Yang, 15-year-old winner of a clutch of titles since she arrived in Scotland as a pupil at Loretto School, near Edinburgh last September, including the English women’s open amateur stroke-play title last week, was the hot favourite for the title after leading the 64 qualifiers and then beating British women’s open amateur champion, Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale) in yesterday’s second round.
Julie finished that tie struggling to preserve a big advantage and she was never really on her game against Sedda who won the first three holes with par-par-birdie figures.
Yang scored her first success at the eighth, where her Italian opponent had a double bogey, but Sedda took a grip on the game again by winning the 10th with a par and the 11th with a birdie to go four up.
Four successive halved holes ended the contest on the 15th green.
Yesterday, Sedda beat the defending champion, France’s Perrine Delacourse. Now she has KO’d the favourite so Laura is in red-hot form after not really showing her best form in the stroke-play stages of the championship.
The Italian will now play the No 8 seed, France’s EmilieAlonso for a place in the semi-finals. Emilie was a 3 and 2 winner over compatriot Celine Boutier.
The Alonso v Boutier tie was all square after three and one up for Alonso at the turn. Alonso had gone two up by the 13th.
The second quarter-final will be an all-Spanish affair between Ha Rang Lee, the 21st qualifier, and Andrea Vilarasau, who qualified in 20th position.
Lee had a one-hole edge against another Spanish player, Luna Sobron, after nine holes and then took the initiative to by three up on the 14th tee, going on to win by 4 and 3.
Vilarasau was a 6 and 4 winner over one of the two German sisters in the last 16 – Victoria Scherer. Vilarasau was one up after three holes and a commanding four holes to the good at the turn, increasing that to a five-hole lead after 13.
Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell), the 54th qualifier, reached the last eight with a 3 and 1 win over Camilla Hedberg (Spain), the No 6 seed, but her twin sister Leona, the No 3 seed, lost by two holes to Antonia Scherer (Germany).
Lisa will have a chance to avenger her twin’s defeat because she plays Antonia in this afternoon’s quarter-finals.
Antonia Scherer had gone two up on Leona by the ninth hole although the Irish Curtis Cup player had reduced her deficit to one hole by the 14th tee. Scherer was two up against after 15th but Leona, still fighting, had pulled it back to one down on the 18th tee.
Leona needed a birdie at the par-5 last hole to square matters but she could not get it. Pin high but 25ft to the right of the flagstick in three, her putt for a 4 stayed above ground. Her German opponent rolled her putt for a birdie close enough for Leona to concede the hole and the match by two holes.
Lisa Maguire came back from one down against Camilla Hedberg after three holes to have a three-hole lead at the turn. She held the Spanish player at bay with a string of halved holes to retain her three-hole advantage for a 3 and 1 win.
Spain have three representatives in the last eight. Ainhoa O’Larra beat Belgium’s Charlotte De Corte by 4 and 2 to play the French women’s champion, Alexandra Bonetti in for a place in Friday morning’s semi-finals.
Bonetti was four up at the turn in her third-round match against compatriot Molle Manon and went on to win by 7 and 6.
Ainhoa O’Larra trailed early on against De Corte but had taken a two-hole lead by the turn and was still two up after 13 holes. She won the 15th to go three up with three to play and clinched the match by winning the 16th for a 4 and 2 result.
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