Seeds Safely Through In Santa Barbara

The top four seeds are safely through to the semi-finals of the SAL Santa Barbara Open - but top seed Shahier Razik was fully stretched for almost two hours before prevailing against fellow Canadian Shawn de Lierre in the established PSA Tour event in California, USA

Razik fought back from a game down to beat the Montreal-based seventh seed 9-11 11-5 11-7 11-8 in 115 minutes - and will now meet Australia's third seed Timothy Manning for a place in the final.

The other semi-final will feature second seed Eric Galvez and India's fourth seed Saurav Ghosal.

Quarter-finals:
[1] Shahier Razik (CAN) bt [7] Shawn De Lierre (CAN) 9-11, 11-5, 11-7, 11-8 (115m)
[3] Timothy Manning (AUS) bt [5] Christopher Gordon (USA) 11-7, 11-9, 11-10 (2-0) (50m)
[4] Saurav Ghosal (IND) bt Ahmed Maged Hamza (EGY) 11-4, 11-5, 11-10 (4-2) (48m)
[2] Eric Galvez (MEX) bt [6] David Phillips (CAN) 11-6, 11-9, 10-11 (0-2), 11-2 (51m)