De Lierre Survives Santa Barbara Marathon

Canada's Shawn De Lierre survived a 99-minute marathon in the opening round of the SAL Santa Barbara Open to set up a quarter-final clash with compatriot and top seed Shahier Razik in the established PSA Tour event in California, USA

In a match featuring three tie-break games, the Montreal-based seventh seed beat Pakistan's Kumail Mehmood 10-11 11-9 11-10 10-11 11-7 in the longest first round match of the day.

Fifth seed Christopher Gordon led local interest in the event with a straight games victory over fellow American Dylan Patterson. The New York-born 19-year-old prevailed 11-6 11-8 11-5 in 38 minutes and now meets Australia's No3 seed Timothy Manning for a place in the last four.

1st round:
[1] Shahier Razik (CAN) bt Beau River (USA) 11-4, 11-5, 11-3 (32m)
[7] Shawn De Lierre (CAN) bt Kumail Mehmood (PAK) 10-11 (1-3), 11-9, 11-10 (2-0), 10-11 (0-2), 11-7 (99m)
[3] Timothy Manning (AUS) bt Patrick Bedore (CAN) 11-8, 11-6, 10-11 (1-3), 11-3 (44m)
[5] Christopher Gordon (USA) bt Dylan Patterson (USA) 11-6, 11-8, 11-5 (38m)
Ahmed Maged Hamza (EGY) bt [8] Jago Nardelli (ENG) 11-7, 11-4, 11-8 (30m)
[4] Saurav Ghosal (IND) bt Karim Yehia (EGY) 11-5, 11-2, 7-11, 2-11, 11-2 (55m)
[6] David Phillips (CAN) bt Ben Gould (AUS) 5-11, 11-5, 11-7, 11-10 (2-0) (50m)
[2] Eric Galvez (MEX) bt Robert Graham (ENG) w/o