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Savcor Finnish Squash Open
Mikkeli, Finland
Issued by Howard Harding

Olli Tuominen celebrated a hat-trick of titles in the Savcor Finnish Open when he beat Henrik Mustonen in the first ever all-Finnish final of the $10,000 PSA World Tour squash event at Sport Forum in Mikkeli.
 
The 30-year-old top seed from Helsinki played the best squash of the whole week to overcome Mustonen, the 19-year-old fourth seed from Hollola.
 
Tuominen, a former world No13 now ranked 23 in the world, despatched his compatriot ranked 75 places lower 11-4, 11-3, 11-5 in just 26 minutes to claim the country’s premier squash title for the third year in a row.
 
The triumph takes Tuominen’s tally to nine PSA Tour titles since 1998.
 
1st round:
[1] Olli Tuominen (FIN) bt Kamran Khan (MAS) 11-9, 11-7, 11-5 (45m)
[Q] Olivier Pett (ENG) bt [6] Kristian Frost Olesen (DEN) 11-8, 11-3, 9-11, 5-11, 11-5 (72m)
[3] Bradley Hindle (MLT) bt [Q] Caspar Grauball Nielsen (DEN) 11-7, 11-5, 11-5 (42m)
Andrew McDougall (CAN) bt [8] Rasmus Nielsen (DEN) 11-13, 12-10, 11-9, 2-11, 11-9 (61m)
[7] Neil Hitchens (ENG) bt Matias Tuomi (FIN) 11-3, 11-4, 11-9 (34m)
[4] Henrik Mustonen (FIN) bt [Q] Alex Ingham (ENG) 11-8, 11-7, 11-5 (28m)
[Q] Wael Farag (EGY) bt [5] Jaymie Haycocks (ENG) 11-9, 9-11, 11-6, 10-12, 11-9 (61m)
[2] Gilly Lane (USA) bt Joel Hinds (ENG) 11-8, 11-4, 11-7 (33m)

    Quarter-finals:
[1] Olli Tuominen (FIN) bt [Q] Olivier Pett (ENG) 11-3, 11-8, 11-7
[3] Bradley Hindle (MLT) bt Andrew McDougall (CAN) 11-8, 9-11, 11-4, 11-3
[4] Henrik Mustonen (FIN) bt [7] Neil Hitchens (ENG) 13-11, 11-4, 11-7
[Q] Wael Farag (EGY) bt [2] Gilly Lane (USA) 12-10, 8-11, 11-7, 5-11, 11-5

    Semi-finals:
[1] Olli Tuominen (FIN) bt [3] Bradley Hindle (MLT) 11-5, 11-3, 12-10 (51m)
[4] Henrik Mustonen (FIN) bt [Q] Wael Farag (EGY) 11-7, 11-7, 11-8 (40m)

    Final:
[1] Olli Tuominen (FIN) bt [4] Henrik Mustonen (FIN) 11-4, 11-3, 11-5 (26m)