Carissa Yip wins the Cairns Cup - 4-9
The fifth Cairns Cup finished on Thursday with victory for 21 year old CarissaYip who drew with her closest rival, 15 year old Alice Lee, to secureclear first place. Yip and Lee were formally the bottom two seeds in the eventbut there was reason to believe even before the event started that both players wereconsiderably better than that. Neither has been very active outside the United States,Yip is studying Computer Science and Math at Stanford University and Lee is still at school, yet their powerful playat the US Championships in October, where Yip was champion and Lee finished third with onlyone defeat, already marked them out as leading women's players.