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Too Good for Jesse. TG Raubenheimer continues his assault on the draw and indeed on his fellow Central Gauteng players. This time it was Jesse Engelbrecht who fell victim. TG managed a recovery from 2-0 down, managed to swing the momentum in his favour and never looked back. The other 3 quarter's were all according to seeding with no games dropped by the seeds. Setting up some great matches for the semi's. TG faces Rodney Durbach while Steve Coppinger plays Clinton Leeuw once again. In the Women's tournament 2 upsets accounted for 5/8 seed Vivienne Doeg and Sonika Fritz who were beaten by Leora Greenwood and Jay Le Roux respectively. Leora's win marks the first KZN presence in the quarter finals of Ladies' Nationals in almost 10 years. Angie Clifton-Parks overcame Adel Weir in a marathon 5 sets. A great win for Angie who will now face 2nd seed Milnay Louw in the quarter finals. The match of the evening tonight is sure to be Siyoli Lusaseni against Di Argyle. Day 2More upsets in the men's event as Ladies' First Round completed. Nico Mulder was unable to regain his form of the previous night as he went down in 4 games to Gareth Schnehage. There were 2 considerable upsets however in the men's last 16 with both Rudi Willemse and T.G Raubenheimer earning debut appearances in the quarter finals. Rudi recovered from a game down to overcome KZN's Gary Wheadon utilising his racquet skills and determination to take control of the match. T.G was simply Too Good for Mike Tootill on the glass indicating that his season in the US has paid dividends for his game. No upsets so far for the women. All seeds cruising through their first round matches to set up a few interesting encouters tonight. Ones to watch will be Juanette Le Roux up agains Sonika Fritz and Adel Weir has Angie Clifton-Parks in her sights. Day 1A single upset last night saw Northerns' Nico Mulder overcome Gauteng's Paul Atkinson in a hard fought four games. After sharing the first 2 games Paul started better in both the 3rd and 4th games only to see his lead being eaten away by Nico's resilient squash and occasional flash of brilliance. Nico now faces Gareth Schnehage who was involved in his own marathon match with Wesley Daniels and lived to fight another day
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