CANADIAN RAZIK WINS THE 2007 COMFORT INN OPEN SQUASH TITLE

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January 21, 2007

Canadian Shahier Razik won the US$20,000 2007 Comfort Inn Open squash title today over defending champion, Renan Lavigne of Marseille, France, at the Evergreen Squash Club on Vancouver’s North Shore by a 3-1 score.

This eagerly awaited match-up was between the retriever extraordinaire, Razik, and the mentally tough, but one would suspect, fatigued, Lavigne, due to the 47% more time Lavigne had spent on the court vs his opponent in this tournament. But does this extra time on court this week translate to fatigue – we’ll see.

The match started as one has come to expect a Razik match would start for him – slowly. He fell behind in the 1st game 1-8 before scoring 5 unanswered points until Lavigne crashed a forehand volley to the left nick for the 11-8 win in 19 minutes.

The second game was a bit relaxing and casual as the two combatants supplied ample evidence of sportsmanship and good natured behae="Form">