Canary Wharf Classic

Matthew survives Barker’s storm!

World Open Champion and Canary Wharf titleholder Nick Matthew (le) won the longest match of the tournament so far. After 94 minutes the World No3 was able to wear down English compatriot Peter Barker (ri) who gave Matthew a very hard ...

Willstrop survived, Matthew being tested!

Two out of the four quarter-final matches at the Canary Wharf Classic came out as really tough battles. The other 2 produced a more or less safe victory of the favourites, as 3rd seed Peter Barker from England beat Germany’s Simon Rosner ...

Willstrop being tested at Canary Wharf!

It was the 3rd match of the 2nd Canary Wharf Classic evening, between World No1 James Willstrop (le) and his opponent Saurav Ghosal (ri), which turned to the best match of the tournament so far, as Willstrop’s Indian training fellow ...

No surprise at Canary opening night!

The 1st four matches of the opening night of the Canary Wharf Classic in London’s East Wintergarden went the ways the seeding where predicting the matches. Only titleholder Nick Matthew (ENG, pic le) dropped a game against Mohd Ali Anwar Reda to ...

Canary Wharf Classic 2010: Let situation?

Two days to go to start the 2012 Canary Wharf Classic. No let, let or stroke? In the 2010 Canary Wharf quarters David Palmer pushed Greg Gaultier ...

Matthew retains Canary Wharf crown!

It was the world No7 that started well in this year’s Canary Wharf final. Englishman Peter Barker played the perfect game, but just for 15 Minutes which gave him the 1:0 lead. Nick Matthew (pic), the No1 of the world, did change his tactics to get ba...

Barker downs Willstrop at London’s Docklands!

In the 1st semi-final, which showed an all-English encounter between James Willstrop (pic li) and Peter Barker (pic re), the 1st game needed 29 minutes to get a winner, which was Willstrop (16-14). Afterwards Barker showed top-form. Willstrop looked a ...

Barker and Matthew battle through at Canary Wharf!

The 1st match between Englishman Peter Barker and Australian fellow Stewart Boswell was the longest match of the quarter-finals night at the Canary Wharf Classic in London. Coming back from 1 game down Barker managed to get a 2-1 lead. The 4th was a cr...