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Melbourne: Qatar’s Abdulla Al Tamimi (pictured)won the 2016 Australian Open by defeating New Zealand’s Campbell Grayson 3-1 in the final. He recovered from a game down to triumph in the final fixture at the Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre.
He began his tournament with comfortable wins against Daehoon Jeong and Mohd Syafiq Kamal and followed up by recovering from a game down to dispatch Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu and Joel Makin en route to the final, with the latter causing the event’s biggest upset when he downed top seed Paul Coll in the quarter-final.
New Zealand’s Grayson defeated Dmitri Steinmann, Ravi Dixit, Reiko Peter and Joe Lee to reach the final. Grayson quickly took a one-game lead, leaving Al Tamimi staring down the barrel of defeat. But the World No. 46 showed nerves of steel to battle back and took the next three games in succession to claim a hard-fought 6-11, 11-9, 11-7, 11-5 victory to lift his third PSA World Tour title.
