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Nicol Jangka Saingan Sengit Pada Terbuka KL

KUALA LUMPUR, 25 Mac (Bernama) -- Ratu skuasy negara Datuk Nicol David menjangka berdepan saingan sengit dalam misinya memburu kejuaraan kesembilan pada Kejohanan CIMB David Nicol Terbuka Kuala Lumpur yang membuka tirainya esok.

Pemain nombor satu dunia itu berkata dengan penyertaan kelompok 15 pemain terbaik dunia serta kehadiran ramai muka baharu pada kejohanan itu, ia bukan satu tugas mudah untuk meraih pengiktirafan tersebut.

"Saya lihat kejohanan kali ini berbeza daripada sebelumnya kerana disertai lebih ramai pemain ternama dan saya jangkakan saingan kali ini lebih kompetitif," katanya kepada pemberita selepas majlis penajaan kejohanan itu oleh CIMB di sini, hari ini.

Mengenai peluangnya pada acara yang menawarkan hadiah wang tunai RM310,000 itu, Nicol berharap dapat mempamerkan aksi terbaik sekali gus dapat mempertahan kejuaraannya.

Selain Nicol, kejohanan di Pusat Skuasy Nasional di Bukit Jalil dan Berjaya Times Square yang berlangsung sehingga Ahad ini turut menampilkan pemain nombor dua dunia, Raneem El Weleily dari Mesir.

Turut mampu memberi tentangan ialah pemain nombor tiga dunia, Laura Massaro dari England bersama rakan senegaranya, Jenny Duncalf.

Seorang lagi pemain Mesir, Omneya Abdel Kawy yang dijangka bertemu Nicol seawal pusingan kedua juga mampu menjadi ancaman besar di kejohanan itu.

Sejak kejohanan itu diperkenalkan pada 1999, Nicol hanya gagal merangkul gelaran dua kali apabila tewas kepada Vanessa Atkinson dari Belanda pada 2006 dan Natalie Grainger dari Amerika Syarikat pada 2009.



-- BERNAMA

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