Chris’s title bid ended

Friday 6th March 2009, 2:29PM GMT.

CHRIS SIMPSON kept the number-three seed Adrian Grant on court for nearly an hour in Malaysia yesterday.

But the Guernseyman’s superb run into the quarter-finals of the five-star CIMB Malaysian Open ended with an

11-6, 13-11, 11-9 defeat by the Englishman in 57 minutes.

‘It was a tough match and I led in every game, getting three game balls in the second, but I just couldn’t seem to close it out,’ said the Sarnian.

‘I felt I got a little

impatient in each game when leading as I knew that the finishing line was in sight, and against the top 16 in the world you just can’t do that.’

Simpson now returns to Guernsey to spearhead our inter-insular challenge at Beau Sejour next weekend.

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