Hannah Barwood bows out of Spanish championship
6th March 2010

Hannah Barwood (Image courtesy Leaderboard)

England's Hannah Barwood (pictured) bowed out of the Spanish international amateur championship at Pals, Girona, when she was beaten 5/3 in the quarter finals.
 
Hannah, from Knowle in Gloucestershire, was the sole remaining British player in the championship. She lost to Czech player Klara Spilkova, who won the 2009 European Young Masters by an astonishing 14 shots.
 
The match was close over the opening holes and Hannah was just one down after  eight. But the Czech player took control when she won the next three holes to go four up after the 11th.  Three halved holes followed before a bogey on the short 15th ended Hannah's hopes.

Klara Spilkova was in turn beaten 4/3 in the semi-final by Sweden's Emma Nilsson,  who plays Nerea Salaverria of Spain in tomorrow's final.

Hannah, 19, is an England international and was the 2008 English champion. She is in the GB&I squad for this year's Curtis Cup team.

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Hannah Barwood reaches Spanish quarter-final
5th March 2010

England international Hannah Barwood (pictured) has reached the quarter finals of the Spanish women's international amateur championship at Pals, Girona.

The 19-year-old from Knowle, Gloucestershire, is the sole survivor in the championship from Great Britain and Ireland. She earned her place in the final eight with two victories, both by the margin of 2/1.

Hannah, who was the 2008 English champion, first defeated Spain's Noemi Jiminez and then beat Tara Davies of Wales. Now she faces the Czech player, Klara Spilkova who despatched the number one seed, Lucie Andre of France, to take her place in the quarter final.
 
England's other matchplay hope was international Rachel Jennings of Izaak Walton, Staffordshire. She had a 3/2 win in her first round match against Spain's Camilla Hedberg, but later lost one down to Sweden's Louise Ridderstrom.

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