World squash number 14 Joelle King played almost the perfect game as she won the New Zealand nationals defending her title by defeating world number 17, Jaclyn Hawkes, from Auckland.
The twenty-two-year-old King beat her friend and close rival Hawkes with surprising ease 11-9 11-2 11-5 in the final and was a little surprised herself with the scoreline at the Hamilton Squash and Tennis Club.
Earlier King had accounted for Waikato player, Kylie Lindsey in the semi-finals, while Hawkes beat Tamsyn Leevey of Wellington, in what was a solid field for both the men's and the women's tournaments for a national championships featuring a large number on internationally ranked players.
The best of the women's world junior team members who depart for the junior world championships in the United States in just over a week was Megan Craig from Marlborough who reached the quarterfinals before falling to Leevey in five games.
Meanwhile in the men's final Martin Knight, the world number 47, scored a straight games win over 57th ranked Campbell Grayson 11-6 11-7 11-8, a repeat of the result from last weekend in the Central Open.
Knight won through to the final after outclassing Wellington's Evan Williams while Grayson had to battle a little more to overcome Kashif Shuja in four games.
