Ireland’s Breanne Flynn has emphatically played her way into Saturday’s IACT Fitzwilliam Ladies Open final.
The 16-player $3,000 PSA Satellite event featured quarter- and semi-finals on Friday, and Flynn, the Irish No.2 who is ranked No.3 at the Dublin event, chalked up successive 3-1 wins over the English duo of the eighth-seeded Polly Clark and second seed Isabel McCullough.
Flynn’s win over Clark took 38 minutes, with victory confirmed with an 11-4 game four, and her encounter with McCullough took six minutes longer before that success was confirmed with an 11-5 game four.
Flynn, who started her season with two tournaments in Australia followed by a 25th-place finish at the European Championships in Chartres, will now play Elise Romba, the No.1 seed, in Saturday’s final, starting at 2pm.
Romba needed 35 minutes to win her semi-final 3-1 against Australia’s Erin Classen, having been taken to five games earlier in the day by Wales’ Ellie Breach. The French player is currently ranked 120th on the PSA chart, 11 ahead of Flynn in 131st place.
SEMI-FINALS
Elise Romba [1] WON 3-1 (9-11, 11-7, 11-2, 11-4) v Erin Classen [4]
Isabel McCullough [2] LOST 1-3 (9-11, 10-12, 11-6, 5-11) v Breanne Flynn [3]
FINAL
Romba [1] v Flynn [3] – Saturday, 2pm (live on SQUASH TV)
