Guillermo's Squash Club in Colorado Springs is hosting its 26th annual Invitational/Open February 20-23, 2020. 
    It'll be a fun weekend of squash and social activities.  
    For more information and the entry form, visit GuillermosSquashClub.com.

    The 26th annual Kiva Classic tournament concluded Sunday, with more than a dozen championship matches. The four-day tournament, which was held at the Kiva Club in downtown Santa Fe, attracted more than 100 participants, and everyone had a lot of fun on the courts and off.
      Here is a list of champions and finalists in each division:

Open Doubles
Champions: Eric Eiteljorg (Denver) and Sean Gallagher (Kiva)
Finalists: Alex Dumas (Colorado Springs) and Alicia McConnell (Colorado Springs)
 
40+ Doubles
Champions: Eric Eiteljorg (Denver) and TJ Johnson (Denver)
Finalists: Alex Dumas (Colorado Springs) and Alicia McConnell (Colorado Springs)
 
50+ Doubles
Champions: Jim Nelson (Louisville, CO) and Grant Robinson (Kiva)
Finalists: Sean Ryan (Portland, OR) and Derrick Cameron (Ridgefield, PA)
 
55+ Doubles
Champions: Martin Casdagli (Kiva) and David Barker (Kiva)
Finalists: Keith Thompson (Denver) and Alan Dille (Golden, CO)
 
60+ Doubles
Champions: David Barker (Kiva) and Walter Burke (Kiva)
Finalists: Rugs Wilson (Denver) and Alan Dille (Golden, CO)
 
65+ Doubles
Champions: James Gibbons (San Francisco) and Clark Amos (Scottsdale, AZ)
Finalists: Sue Kaffka and Martin Kaffka (Vancouver, BC)
 
70+ Doubles
Champions: Neil Ross (Carbondale, CO) and Curt Castleman (Evergreen, CO)
Finalists: Mike Tramutt (Aravada, CO) and Randy Waesche (Denver)
 
75+ Doubles
Champions: Michael Wilson (Westmount, QC) and John Osborn (Vancouver, BC)
Finalists: Graham Sharman (Kiva) and David O’Loughlin (Pittsburgh, PA)
 
80+ Doubles
Champions: Dave Matthews (Kiva) and Bill Jones (Kiva)
Finalists: Michael McBean (Westmount, QC) and Purdy Jordan (Mexico City)
 
40+ Softball Singles
Champion: Sean Ryan (Portland, OR)
Finalist: T.J. Johnson (Denver)
 
50+ Softball Singles
Champion: Tom Abrams (Kiva)
Finalist: Derrick Cameron (Ridgefield, PA)
 
60+ Softball Singles
Champion: Tra Pippin (Oklahoma City, OK)
Finalist: Walter Burke (Kiva)
 
70+ Softball Singles
Champion: Warren Young (Dallas)
Finalist: George Meyer (Fair Oaks, CA)

50+ Hardball Singles
Champion: Grant Robinson (Kiva)
Finalist: Sean Ryan (Portland, OR)
 
60+ Hardball Singles
Champion: Walter Burke (Kiva)
Finalist: Jim Gibbons (San Francisco, CA)
 
70+ Hardball Singles
Champion: Rick Taft (Pepperpike, OH)
Finalist: George Meyer (Fair Oaks, CA)

Noon: Jaymie Haycocks easily defeated Babtunde Ajagbe, 3-0.
     Haycocks, an Englishman, is the tournament’s No. 1 seed and is ranked No. 88 in the world.
     He won 11-8, 11-7 and 11-8.
     The first game was the longest at 12 minutes. The players traded points early on, then Haycocks ran off two strings of three points in a row to take a 10-5 lead. Ajagbe ran off three straight to close the margin, but it was too late. Game to Haycocks.
     In the second game, which lasted 9 minutes, Haycocks jumped to a 4-0 start, and built a 6-1 lead before Ajagbe won five straight to make it a game. But Haycocks won five of the next six points to close it out. Haycocks won two points on service aces, both lobs to Ajagbe’s backhand.
     The third game, which lasted 10 minutes, was back-and-forth and was tied 8-8. But then Haycocks won three straight points to win it. On the final point, Ajagbe returned a serve into his forehand corner and managed to trap himself there. Haycocks went to hit the ball, but the ball hit Ajagbe first. End of match.
     The audience chuckled, the two players smiled and briefly hugged each other before leaving the court.
     Haycocks had cruised in his opening round match, beating Mexico’s Heralio Salaiz Estrada in three quick games and giving up only 12 points in the match.
     Ajagbe had to work hard in his opening round win over 16-year-old Mexican Leonel Cardenas. That match took an hour and went to five games.
     Ajagbe, a 29-year-old Nigerian, was seeded No. 7. Ajagbe is ranked World No. 184. This is his second time playing in the Kiva Open.
     The 32-year-old Haycocks is the oldest player in the tournament to reach the quarterfinals.

1 PM: Reuben Phillips prevailed in a long, hard-fought, five-game match against Charlie Lee.
     The match went the full distance, with Phillips winning, 12-10, 7-11, 9-11, 11-3, 11-5. It took 1 hour and 12 minutes.
     Lee stretched Phillips with many long rallies, retrieving shot after shot and often winning the rally, but Phillips was the more physical player. At 5-foot-9 and 181 pounds, he outweighed the 5-foot-10 Lee by 50 pounds. Phillips often used his mass to his advantage, making it difficult for Lee to get cleanly to the ball.
     Phillips, a 24-year-old Englishman, is the tournament’s No. 3 seed and ranked World No. 147.
     Lee, an 18-year-old also from England, is ranked World No. 187, and was the tournament’s No. 8 seed.
     Both Phillips and Lee won their opening round matches in three games. Phillips took unseeded American Andrian Leanza in a 45-minute match, while Lee cruised past Bermuda’s Noah Browne. 

3 PM: Edgar Zayas defeated Alex Ingham in a seesaw five-game match.
     Game scores were 11-9, 8-11, 5-11, 11-3 and 11-4.
     Ingram, a left-hander, seemed in control of the match after the third game, but found himself quickly behind 6-1 in the fourth game and never regained his equilibrium. He began missing shots that he had made earlier in the match, and seemed to go for the knockout punch rather than playing with the patience and consistency that had won him games two and three.
     Zayas, a 21-year-old Mexican, is ranked World No. 147. He dispatched American Nick Talbott in the tournament’s opening round, 11-9, 11-5 and 11-5.
     In his opening round match, Ingham upset No. 6 seed Diego Gobbi of Brazil, winning easily in three straight games, 11-7, 11-3 and 11-4. That match lasted just 30 minutes.
     Ingham, a 26-year-old Englishman, was the only unseeded player to reach the quarterfinals.

4 PM: American Dylan Cunningham upset No. 2 seed Adam Murrills of England, 3-1.
     Cunningham won the first game, 11-9. The game was tight throughout, with both players hitting rails and cross-courts with power.
     The second game went to Murrills. The game was close until near the end, when Murrills hit a crosscourt winner into the nick off of Cunningham’s serve, then got a stroke call from a loose rail hit by Cunningham. The second game went to Murrills, 11-8.
     The third game was neck-and-neck. Murrills tinned two shots midway through the game to keep Cunningham close, then Cunningham took a 10-9 lead, only to have Murrills tie at 10-10. Cunningham won the next two points, and the game, 12-10.
     Cunningham took the fourth and final game decisively, 11-6.
     Ultimately, it was Cunningham’s size – he is 6-foot-4  – along with his reach and power that won the match. It was a mystery Murrills couldn’t solve.
     Murrills was the tournament’s No. 2 seed and is ranked World No. 113.
     In his opening round match, the 26-year-old Murrills defeated his former coach and mentor, Drewe Williams. Williams is the Kiva Club’s resident squash pro, and he taught Murrills when Murrills was a junior player in England.
     The 22-year-old Cunningham is seeded No. 5 in the tournament and his world rank is No. 179. In his first match at this year's Kiva Open, he beat Scotland’s Jon Geekie in straight games.​

         The second annual Kiva Club Open tournament began today in Santa Fe with eight professional singles matches. The tournament is a combination professional and amateur tournament. The Professional Squash Association portion has 16 players competing for ranking points and for $5,000 in prize money.
     The amateur draw, which starts playing on Friday, includes singles and doubles in various skill levels.
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    Here’s a report on today’s professional action:
 
Noon:  Jaymie Haycocks easily defeated Heraclio Salaiz Estrada, three games to none, in the opening round of play at the Kiva Club Open.
     Haycocks, an Englishman, is the tournament’s No. 1 seed and is ranked No. 88 in the world. He controlled the T from the beginning, forcing Salaiz Estrada to hit risky drop shots and lobs. The match lasted just 30 minutes, and the game scores were 11-4, 11-3 and 11-5.
     Salaiz Estrada, who is from Mexico, is World No. 303. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona. This is his second run at Kiva Open. He played valiantly, chasing balls all over the court, but he couldn’t overcome Haycocks’s consistency and experience.
    The 32-year-old Haycocks is the one of the oldest players entered in the tournament. Salaiz Estrada is 30 years old.
 
1 PM Babatunde Ajagbe, a 29-year-old Nigerian, narrowly beat 16-year-old Leonel Cardenas of Mexico in a five-game, hour-long match.
     The game scores were 8-11, 11-7, 3-11, 12-10 and 11-9.
     Early on, both players worked the other’s backhand, but in the fourth game, they started hitting more cross-courts and the match became increasing contentious with the players bumping, jostling, and asking for lets. The fourth game lasted nearly 20 minutes.
      Midway through the fifth game, with the score tied, 6-6, Ajagbe hit Cardenas with a backhand from the back of the court. Cardenas argued for a let, with Ajagbe apologizing for hitting him.
       “Sorry,” said Ajagbe, gesturing that the strike was unintentional.
       “Do you want to play a let,” asked the referee, David Foley.
     “No, no,” said Ajagbe, “it was a stroke.”
     The players traded points through the rest of the game, but Ajagbe got the last two and reached 11 first.
     The stocky Cardenas looks older than his 16 years. He was not seeded in the tournament and is ranked World No. 403.
     Ajagbe is ranked World No. 184. This is his second time playing in the Kiva Open.
 
2 PM:  Charlie Lee, an 18-year-old Englishman, took Noah Browne of Bermuda in three quick games in a first-round match at the Kiva Open in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
     The game scores were 11-9, 11-7 and 11-6.
     Lee, ranked World No. 187, is the tournament’s No. 8 seed.
     Browne is a towering 6-feet, 4-inches tall, while Lee is 5-foot, 10-inches tall. Browne is 198 pounds, Lee 132. The two players found themselves in several tangles, but the fleet-footed Lee usually extricated himself for a winning shot.
     The 23-year-old Browne is ranked World No. 287.
 
3 PM It took Reuben Phillips three long games to beat Adrian Leanza. With the exception of the second game, the game scores seem lopsided – 11-3, 12-10, 11-3 – but the match was full of long rallies with Leanza stretching Phillips at every opportunity. The match lasted about 45 minutes.
     After the first game, which Phillips dominated, Leanza seemed to find himself, playing more confidently and aggressively, running the court, fetching balls and extending every point.
    Phillips, a 24-year-old Englishman, is the tournament’s No. 3 seed and ranked World No. 147. Leanza is an American who lives in Denver, Colorado. The 27-year-old is ranked World No. 444.
 
4 PM Edgar Zayas handled Nick Talbott in three quick and decisive games. The game scores were 11-9, 11-5 and 11-5.
     Talbott seemed to tire half way through the second game, and Zayas won points in bunches – four in a row, then three in a row. His winning pace accelerated in the third game, when he won six in a row, followed by three in a row to close the match.
     Zayas, a 21-year-old Mexican, is the tournament’s No. 4 seed and ranked World No. 147.
     Talbott, who is 23, lives in Palo Alto, California. (If the name Talbott sounds familiar, it is because Talbott’s father, Mark Talbott was the No. 1 hardball singles squash player from 1983 to 1995.)
 
5 PM Alex Ingham upset No. 6 seed Diego Gobbi. Ingham, a 26-year-old Englishman, won in three straight games, 11-7, 11-3 and 11-4. The match took just 30 minutes.
     Gobbi, a 21-year-old Brazilian, is ranked No. 183 in the world. Ingham is ranked No. 388.
     Ingham is a lefthander, and Gobbi kept the ball on his forehand side, playing against Ingham’s backhand. The strategy didn’t work. Ingham chased down almost everything Gobbi hit.
 
6 PM American Dylan Cunningham beat Scotland’s Jon Geekie, 3-0. Game scores were 11-3, 11-7 and 11-8.
     Cunningham jumped out to a 7-1 lead in the first game, and never looked back. In the second game, he had runs of four and five points in a row.
     In the final game, Geekie held even at 6-6 and then pulled ahead 8-6. But then Cunningham ran off the next five points to win the game and the match.
     Cunningham covers a lot of the court merely by being on it. The lanky American is 6-foot-4 and weighs 181 pounds. The 22-year-old Cunningham is seeded No. 5 in the tournament and his world rank is No. 179.
     Geekie, from Scotland, also is a sizable fellow, standing 6-foot-1. The 26-year-old lefthander is ranked No. 200 in the world.
     This is both players’ second time at the Kiva Open.
 
7 PM: In a battle of master and pupil, the pupil prevailed. Adam Murrills beat Drewe Williams, 3-0.
     The match was a crowd favorite, because the 38-year-old Williams is the Kiva Club’s resident squash pro. He was granted a slot in the draw when another player dropped out at the last minute.
     The match also had an added dimension:  Williams, who grew up in Chester, England, coached Murrills when the 26-year-old Murrills was a junior player in England.
      “I guess I taught him too well,” said Williams after the match. The games scores were 11-4, 11-7 and 11-7.
     Murrills is the tournament’s No. 2 seed and is ranked World No. 113.

     Professional play resumes at noon on Friday. The finals match is noon Sunday.
 

     No. 1 seed Chris Hanson won his first PSA tournament on Sunday, beating the unseeded Jesus Camacho at the Kiva Club Open in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    Hanson, who is 24-years-old, beat the 17-year-old Camacho in four games, 11-9, 4-11, 11-7, 11-4.
    Hanson is world No. 85. Camacho is No. 202.
    Throughout the match, both players tended to hit to his opponent's backhand. Because Hanson is a lefty and Camacho is a righty, this meant a lot of cross-courts.
     Hanson jumped to 6-1 lead in the first game, but Camacho battled back to trail by two at 4-6. Hanson reasserted himself to go ahead 8-4, but Camacho battled back again and again to trail by two at 6-8 and 7-9 -- and then tied it up at 9-9.
    Camacho tinned an overhead backhand to make it 9-10, then Hanson hit a drop that Camacho couldn't reach. Game to Hanson, 11-9. It took 18 minutes.
    The second game was all Camacho. He jumped to a 9-2 lead, frustrating Hanson by retrieving every shot. Hanson won two more points with drops that Camacho couldn't reach, but Camacho returned the favor at game point to win it 11-4. It was a 10-minute game.
     Both players changed to clean shirts for the third game, and both players started even, trading points to make it 4-4. Then Camacho tinned four shots in a row to trail 4-8 before hitting a tight, low rail that Hanson couldn't reach. 
    But Hanson kept the pressure on, and got to game point at 10-6. He took the game, 11-7, in 14 minutes.
    Camacho changed his shirt for the fourth game. 
    With Hanson leading 4-3, Camacho slipped, missed a return and sat on the court with a leg cramp. Within a few minutes he was back up, racing about the court, but Hanson rushed ahead with five straight points to make it 9-3.
    Hanson took the game, 11-4, and the match, three games to one.
    The match lasted exactly an hour.
    Hanson had only been tested in the tournament in his semi-final match against qualifier Ahmad Alzabidi, which went to five games. Hanson's other matches were quick, three-game affairs against unseeded players.
    Camacho's route to the finals went through three seeded players -- No.2 Fred Reid, No 8. Auguste Dussourd and No. 4 Faraz Khan.
    Hanson was born in New York, graduated from Dartmouth and now lives in Greenwich, CT.
    Camacho was born in Mexico City and now lives in Cuautitlan Izcali, Mexico.
    The Kiva Club Open was the first PSA tournament in New Mexico in about 15 years. The tournament had $5,000 in prize money. The winner received $902.50, the runner up $617.50 and the rest was divided up among the other players.

     No.1 seed Chris Hanson will face unseeded Jesus Camacho in the finals of the Kiva Club Open in Santa Fe on Sunday. Hanson is a 24-year-old left-hander who is ranked No. 85 in the world. Camacho is a 17-year-old right-hander who is ranked No. 202 in the world.
     Hanson was severely tested by unseeded Ahmad Alzabidi Saturday in his semi-final match, but he squeaked out a five-game win.
     Hanson had been cool and surgical on the court during this Kiva Club Open, but Alzabidi quickly ruffled him by asking the referee for lets. Before the match's first point, there were two lets. And the first point was a stroke.
     Between the complaining, there were many long rallies and wonderfully athletic points from both players.
     Alzabidi, a lefty who is world No. 304, varied his speed, mixing soft shots with smashes, but Hanson was the more consistent and patient.
     Alzabidi eventually worked his way to a 9-7 lead, but Hanson battled back, got a "no-let" call to make it 9-9, and won the next two points and the game, 11-9.
     The second game picked up where the first left off, as both players argued their cases. 
     With the game tied 5-5, Alzabidi hit a winning shot, then turned to the referee and yelled, "No let! No way!"
     "I didn't even ask for one," Hanson yelled back.
     Alzabidi took the next two points, and never lost the lead, winning the game, 11-7.
     In the third game, both players slowed the pace, using more lobs and off-speed shots. And they even agreed on a let call.
     Alzabidi took the first three points, and Hanson the next three.
     The game tied at 3-3, 4-4, 5-5 and 7-7. Then Hanson got a stroke call and Alzabidi hit the tin with a smash to give Hanson a 9-7 lead.
    Alzabidi then played patiently, hitting rails until he had a chance for a winner. He won the next three points to get to game point, and Hanson tinned a possible winner to give Alzabidi the game, 11-9.
     Hanson changed his shirt before the start of the fourth game and jumped to 4-1 lead. Alzabidi interrupted Hanson's serving rhythm by  adjusting his shoes and circling the court. He won two points before Hanson hit a perfect forehand drop to make it 5-3.
     Hanson stretched the lead to 10-4 with the help of three unforced errors by Alazibidi. Alzabidi tinned at game point to give Hanson the game, 11-4, and tie the match at two games apiece.  
     Alzabidi tried to speed the pace at the beginning of the fifth, but Hanson blunted the tactic with his quickness. 
     Both players renewed their "let/no let" arguments.
     After the game was tied at 5-5, the arguments became more heated, but Hanson edged ahead, finally taking the game, 11-7, to win the match.
     Alazbidi's out-sized personality matches his physique: He is 6-feet, 2-inches tall and weighs 203 pounds. He lives in Washington DC and plays for Jordan
     Hanson, 24, lives in Greenwich, CT. He is 5-feet, 11-inches tall and weighs 165 pounds.
    Alzabidi played more matches and games to reach the semis than any of the other semifinalists. 
     No. 6 seed Diego Gobbi took him to five games and qualifier Juan Gomez Dominguez took him to four games, both in the main draw. 
     Alzabidi also had to get past Kiva Club pro Drewe Williams in the qualifying round. That took three games. 
     So Alzabidi played 12 games before meeting Hanson.
     By contrast, Hanson played just six games before meeting Alzabidi. Hanson beat each of his two main-draw opponents in straight games, giving up a total of only 18 points.
     Alazabidi won more games and points against Hanson than Hanson's first two opponents combined.


   In the day's other semi-final, unseeded 17-year-old Jesus Camacho upset 22-year-old No. 4 seed Faraz Khan in a thrilling four-game match.
     The first game lasted 15 minutes, with many long rallies as both players tested the other with a mix of shots. The drop shot was much in evidence with both players following a drop with a drop, often leading to three or four drops in a row.
    The difference in the game was unforced errors: Camacho made several more than Khan, and he lost the game, 11-8.
     In the second game, Camacho's play became more consistent and he took a commanding 8-1 lead. He hunted down and returned every Khan shot and made no errors. 
     He won the second game, 11-3, in 10 minutes.
     Camacho changed his shirt to start the third game, but didn't change his intensity. He took a 3-0 lead, frustrating Khan by retrieving absolutely every shot. Khan fought back, getting even at 4-4.
     Camacho then ran off seven straight points with flawless play to take the game, 11-4, in 12 minutes.
     Camcho changed his shirt again for the fourth game, setting a record for shirt changes in a single Kiva Club Open match.
     The fourth game started with both players hitting to all four corners, making their opponent run. Neither player could pull ahead. The game tied at 3-3, 5-5, 6-6, 8-8, 9-9 and 10-10. At 10-10, there were five let calls in a row. 
     Camacho finally hit a winning drop to get it to match point, 11-10.
     This was followed by another let, then Camacho hit a winning backhand crosscourt to perfect length, winning the game, 12-10, and the match, three games to one.
     The match lasted an hour and eight minutes.
     Camacho and Khan, both right handers, share similar physiques. Each is under 6-feet tall and weighs less than 140 pounds. Both are lightning quick on the court.
     Khan, who is world No. 170, was born in Trenton, NJ, and now lives in Old Greenwich, CT.
     Camacho was born in Mexico City and now lives in Cuautitlan Izcali.

     

     No. 1 seed Chris Hanson and No. 4 seed Faraz Khan have made it into the Kiva Club Open semi-finals. They will be joined by unseeded Jesus Camacho and qualifier Ahmad Alzabidi.
     The semi-final matches start at 6 p.m. Saturday (Sept. 19).
 
    Hanson needed just 27 minutes to sweep past unseeded Italo Bonatti in his quarterfinal match on Friday.        
     Hanson, who is ranked No. 85 in the world, won 11-3, 11-4, 11-4. 
     He dominated the T, hitting tight rails deep and cutting off loose balls. He was patient and made very few errors, allowing Bonatti to make the mistakes under unrelenting pressure.
     Hanson, a 5-foot, 11-inch left-hander, lives in Greenwich, CT. He is coached by Australian Rod Martin, a former world No. 3. The 24-year-old Hanson also cruised through his first-round match, beating unseeded Englishman Mark Broekman, 11-3, 11-2, 11-2.
     Bonatti, a Guatemalan who is ranked world No. 267, made the main draw as a randomly chosen "lucky loser" after No. 5 seed Nicolas Cabellero withdrew from the tournament. The 28-year-old Bonatti lost to 19-year-old Mexican Juan Gomez Dominguez in the qualifying round. Bonatti's coach is Sadar Ali Khan.
     
     In a battle of two unseeded players, Ahmad Alzabidi edged Juan Gomez Dominguez in a 51-minute, four-game quarter-final match.
     The players traded the first two games, with Gomez Dominguez taking the first, 11-6, and Alzabidi the second, 11-5. 
     Gomez Dominguez dominated the first, making few errors and out-hustling Alzabidi. Alzabidi returned the favor is the second game, changing the pace, mixing fast and slow serves and hitting good drives to length.
     The third game turned into a on-court debate about lets and strokes, with both players working the referee and playing to the crowd. The debate was interrupted by complaints about the court floor being slippery, and play was delayed for a damp-mopping.
     When play resumed, Alzabidi kept altering his pace, floating lobs to the back of the court along with smashing his rails and crosses.
     Alzabidi eventually took the game, 11-8. It wasn't pretty or fluid squash. 
    The final game was similar, with Alzabidi mixing the pace of his shots and both players appealing lets. Alzabidi won, 11-7.
     The 26-year-old Alzabidi  is 6-feet, 2-inches tall and weighs 203 pounds.
     The 19-year-old Gomez Dominguez is 5-feet, 11-inches tall and weighs 141 pounds.
     Gomez Dominguez gave up 3 inches in height and more than 60 pounds in weight -- and also was lighter in his complaints to the referee.
     Alzabidi will play No. 1 seed Chris Hanson in one of tomorrow's semi-finals.
     The Jordanian Alzabidi was seeded No. 3 in the qualifying draw. He is the current world No. 304, but was ranked 149 in December 2011.
     Gomez Dominguez was the No. 5 seed in the qualifying draw. He is the current world No. 361. He is from Vera Cruz, Mexico.

  No. 4 seed Faraz Khan dispatched No. 7 seed Anthony Graham in three hard-fought games.
     Khan took the first game, 11-5. That game was filled with long rallies, with both players mixing speeds and lengths. The game lasted 13 minutes.
     Khan jumped out to a 6-1 lead in the second game. His ability to out-last Graham in rallies began to show -- and to frustrate Graham.
     Graham slowed play between points, and drew within three points at 9-6 before making two errors to lose the game, 11-6. That put him behind two games to none. The second game lasted 9 minutes.
     The third game was delayed a few minutes when Graham slipped and fell. He had been leading 5-4, but lost a point with his slip to tie the game. As he rested on the court, he joked about a let and then asked that the damp spot he created on the court be mopped. He won just one more point, and Khan took the final game, 11-6, in 11 minutes.
     Khan, a 22-year-old from Old Greenwich, CT, is world No. 170.
     Graham, a 25-year-old from Woodchester in the United Kingdom, is world No. 195. He was world No. 98 in August 2012.

     In match of young talent and wiry frames, unseeded 17-year-old Jesus Camacho defeated No. 8 seed Andre Dussourd. Dussourd is 19 years old.
     Camacho won the 1-hour, 11-minute match three games to one.
     Dussourd took the first game, 11-6. He jumped to a 5-0 lead. Camacho seemed nervous, and missed several early shots. He settled down after winning two points, but never got closer than three points, eventually losing 11-6 after 15 minutes of play. 
     There was some arguing with -- or at least making faces at -- the referee over lets and strokes during the first game, and that accelerated and became more verbal in the second.
     The second game was tied at 3-3, 4-4 and 5-5. After the three ties, the players seemed to find their rhythms and began playing through bumps and touches rather than debating. 
     Camacho switched to a higher gear, running the court and returning everything. He didn't lose another point, and took the 13-minute  game, 11-5. That tied the match at one game a piece.
     In the third game, Camacho jumped to a 3-0 lead, then made two unforced errors to make it 3-2. He then ran off four straight points to make it 7-2. Doussard finally got within two at 10-8. 
     On a ferocious 10-8 game point, Dossuord ran into Camacho trying to reach a drop shot. He hit the back of Camacho's leg with his knee. Play stopped for a few minutes as Camacho's leg was iced.
   Camacho showed no ill effects, winning the next point on a long rally along with the game, 11-8. It was a 29-minute game.
     As the fourth game started, both players clearly were tiring. With Dossourd leading 4-3, he took a spill chasing a drive to his forehand corner. Play was suspended for about three minutes, giving both players  a rest. The players then tied at 6-6, but then Camacho won three in a row with crisp play before Dussourd won a point, making it 9-7.
     The players traded points to make it 10-8, then Camacho hit a winner to take the game, 11-8 -- and the match, three games to one.
     The Frenchman Dussourd, who stands 5-feet, 11-inches tall and weighs 132 pounds, is world No. 248. 
     The Mexican Camacho, who is 5-feet, 8-inches tall and also weighs 132 pounds, is world No. 202.
     Camacho will play Faraz Khan in one of Saturday's semi-finals.

    The Kiva Club Open is now into its main draw. The round of 16 was Thursday, and the level of play was remarkable. Here's a report on the eight matches:
   Noon:  Top seed Chris Hanson easily defeated unseeded Mark Broekman, 11-3, 11-2, 11-2.
    The left-handed Hanson, who is currently No. 85 in the world, controlled the middle and forced Broekman into many early errors. Hanson lives in Greenwich, Connecticut. Broekman, who is ranked No. 215 in the world and stands 6-feet, 5-inches tall, is from Cheltenham in the United Kingdom.
   1 p.m.:  Italo Bonatti took more than an hour to beat Jon Geekie. Bonatti won the first two games, 11-7 and 11-8.
    Bonatti, from Guatemala City, Guatemala, mixed his shots well and caught the left-handed Geekie off-guard several times in the first game. In the second game, Bonatti started hitting deeper, and when Geekie attempted drops, Bonatti turned them into winners.
     In the third game, Bonatti took a 7-3 lead, but, facing elimination, Geekie won the next 8 points and took the game 11-7.
     Geekie, who lives in Lee on Solent in the United Kingdom and plays for Scotland, won the next two games, 11-7 and 11-8. Geekie increased his power and improved his  shot mix. Bonatti seemed to lose concentration and gave up three strokes in the fourth game.
     By this time, both players were arguing lets and strokes with the referee.
     The final game was tense. Geekie made several unforced errors and Gould himself down 4-9.  He then rallied to 8-10 before getting beat on a deep cross off a drop shot.
     Geekie was unseeded in the main draw, while Bonatti was seeded No.2 in the qualifying draw. He lost to Mexican Juan Gomez Dominguez, but drew a slot in the main draw as a "lucky loser" when No. 5 seed Nicholas Cabellero withdrew from the tournament.
  2 p.m.: Unseeded Ahmad Alzabidi won a hard-fought victory over No. 6 seed Diego Gobbi. Alzabidi, who is ranked No. 304 in the world, won the first two games, 11-8 and 11-8, but the 203-pound left-hander seemed to tire toward the end of the second game.
     Gobbi, who is ranked No. 197 in the world, took next two games, 11-8 and 11-8.  Alzabidi slowed the game down by making Gobbi delay his serve, but the 159-pound Gobbi remained fleet of foot and won points by tracking down and returning every shot.
     Alzabidi, who is from Amman, Jordan, and was ranked world No. 149 in December 2011, won the last game, 11-6. 
     The game was tied 4-4 when Alazbidi won three straight points, including a stroke on a Gobbi drop to give him a 7-4 lead. "Yes!" Alzabidi yelled, pumping his fist at the stroke call.
     Gobbi, who is from San Paulo, Brasil, managed just two more points as Alzabidi steamed to the finish line.
    3 p.m.: Unseeded Juan Gomez Dominguez upset No. 3 seed Babatunde Ajagbe. Gomez Dominguez, 19, won the first two games, 13-11 and 11-6, and seemed to have the match in hand. Ajagbe, a 28-year-old Nigerian, seemed exhausted, frequently bending over to gulp oxygen. (Santa Fe is 7,000 feet above sea level.)
    But Ajagbe made it a match, winning the third game 11-1. 
    Gomez Dominguez, who is from Vera Cruz, Mexico, closed out by winning the fourth game, 11-8.
   Gomez Dominguez is ranked No. 361 in the world. Ajagbe is ranked No. 165.  
    4 p.m.: No. 4 seed Faraz Khan easily dispatched unseeded Maurico Sedano. Khan won in three straight games.
     The 22-year-old took the first game 11-6. Both he and the 24-year-old Sedano were hitting hard and deep.
     The second game opened with a brutal first rally that ended when Khan nailed Sedano with an attempted cross-court. The two players exchanged words, and that added an edge to the rest of the match.
     Khan, who is from Old Greenwich, Connecticut, than ran up a 5-1 lead. Sedano, who is from Guatemala City, Guatemala, doggedly retrieved shots, but Kahn extended his lead to 10-3 before Sedano tinned to give Khan the game.
     In the final game, Khan was his most creative, moving the ball around the court and taking advantage of his chances up front. Khan won the game 11-4 and took the match.
     Khan is ranked No. 170 in the world and Sedano is ranked No. 245.
     5 p.m.: No. 7 seed Anthony Graham defeated unseeded Dylan Cunningham in a brutally physical match that ended without the players shaking hands. 
     The 25-year-old Graham won the match three games to one. He beat the 21-year-old Cunningham 11-8 in the first game. 
     Cunningham, who lives in Cleveland, OH, took the second game, 11-9.
     Graham, who is from Woodchester in the United Kingdom, won the final two games, 11-7 and 11-9.
     The games were filled with jostling and complaints about jostling, and the younger Cunningham was the most aggrieved. When the match ended, he declined to shake hands with Graham.
     Graham is currently ranked No. 195 in the world, and was ranked No. 98 in August 2012.
     Cunningham is ranked world No. 326.
    6 p.m.: No. 8 seed Auguste Dussourd easily defeated unseeded Sam Gould. Dussourd, a 19-year-old Frenchman, won the match in three quick games, 11-4, 11-4, 11-6.
     Dussourd is world No. 248. Gould, a 26-year-old from Cambridge, MA, is world No. 310.
     7 p.m:  Unseeded teenage phenom Jesus Camacho swept past No. 2 seed Fred Reid. Camacho, a 17-year-old from Cuautitlan Izcali, Mexico, beat Reid with finesse, speed and the ability to retrieve every shot hit at him. The game scores were 11-4, 11-5 and 11-9.
     Reid, a 25-year-old Canadian, made many unforced errors, which contributed to the lopsided game scores.
     Reid is world No. 414, and was ranked 107 in September 2013. Camacho is world No. 202.

     The Kiva Club Open featured three qualifying matches Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 15).  
     The Kiva Club Open is a Professional Squash Association (PSA) tournament with $5,000 in prize money. The tournament also includes amateur doubles and singles; those matches start Friday.
     In the Tuesday's first match, Sam Gould easily handled Sean Gallagher, winning in straight games, 11-4, 11-3, 11-4.
     Gould, a 26-year-old from Cambridge, MA, is currently ranked 310 in the world and is the qualifying draw's No. 6 seed.
     Gallagher, 49, is a wealth manager in Santa Fe, NM. He was unseeded and is unranked.
     In the second match, Kiva Club squash pro Drewe Williams defeated No. 7 seed Bryan Bonilla in four games, 11-5, 11-6, 5-11, 13-11. The 45-minute match had many long rallies, and the final game ended with several dramatic lead changes. 
     Williams jumped to a 6-1 lead in that fourth game, but Bonilla came back to move ahead 7-6. After several ties and more lead changes, Bonilla found himself with a 10-8 lead and a game point that would have tied the match at two games apiece. 
     But Williams hit a winning cross-court drop to make it 10-9, then Bonilla missed a drop to tie it up at 10-10. Williams and Bonilla traded points to make it 11-11, then Bonilla missed a drop shot to make it 12-11 and caught the tin at match point, giving Williams the win.
     Bonilla, 23, is currently ranked 339 in the world. He lives in Guatemala City.
     Williams, 37, is originally from Chester in England. He now lives in Santa Fe with his wife and two young sons.
     In the day's final qualifying match, Tom Abrams defeated Walter Burke in straight games, 11-8, 11-9, 11-9.
     Abrams, 53, is a Santa Fe realtor. Burke, 62, runs a catering business and is the Kiva Club Open tournament chairman. 
     The tournament continues Wednesday with the four final qualifying matches starting at 1 p.m.. The main draw of 16 players starts Thursday at noon with the final on Sunday.
     The Kiva Club Open is a first-time PSA tournament. It is being played at a private squash club in Santa Fe. 
     Santa Fe's elevation is 7,000 feet, so players are using a high-altitude ball.