Spain’s Tamara Echegoyen has been crowned ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Champion but Camilla Ulrikkeholm of Denmark gave her a hard time in the final. Ulrikkeholm didn’t let the Spaniard continue her amazing undefeated run and in breeze with gusts up to 25 knots, the exciting finale ended 3 – 2 in the Spaniards favour.

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Ian Williams' Team GAC Pindar went out in the semi-final at the Korea Match Cup to Mathieu Richard of France, going down 3 to 1. The other semi-final went to Taylor Canfield, USone, who beat Adam Minoprio Team Alpari FX 3 to 0. The final was won by Mathieu Richard, beating Taylor Canfield in two straight matches.

Richard and his French team mates on GEFCO Match Racing Team looked very at home Sunday on the KM36 keelboats racing in light to moderate breezes under bright blue skies. Their mastery of Jeongok Harbour was well rewarded with a prize of 625,000 Korean Won, around £36,000, from a total prize fund of approximately £146,000.

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Defending champion Bjorn Hansen and his Ework Sailing Team narrowly missed the cut for the Quarter Finals at the Korea Match Cup. In what was described as a “typical Williams-Hansen match with a lot of screaming and shouting and flags flying all over the place". During the match Hansen grounded to hand the advantage to GAC Pindar who were never going to give up their unexpected advantage. “That was quite tough,” said Hansen. “We felt that was the match decider, hitting the bottom.

Ian Williams is starting to look invincible after marching to an imposing lead on day two of the Korea Match Cup. Even when starting a penalty down against the qualifier David Gilmour, the reigning champion of the Alpari World Match Racing Tour still manage to bend the race to his iron will.

The GAC Pindar skipper acknowledged his error at the start: “A stuff-up on my part. We entered the box a little late, Gilmour was coming in on starboard on a short line, and we got caught on a port-starboard. But a great job by my tactician Bill Hardesty, he called the left side the only time the left worked all day, and we came into the top mark just ahead at the zone, and shoved Gilmour on the mark. He got a red-flag penalty and we got a big enough lead to hold on and unload our penalty at the finish.”

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Pierre-Antoine Morvan’s Vannes Agglo Sailing Team took the top of the leaderboard in Gyeonggi-do, with four wins from five matches on day one of the Korea Match Cup. However the only team to keep a clean sheet thus far was the reigning champion of the Alpari World Match Racing Tour, Ian Williams’ GAC Pindar, who scored three wins from three.

The most dramatic of Williams’ victories was against Keith Swinton’s Black Swan Racing, and the young Australian skipper was regretting a missed opportunity against the top seeded British team, who at one point was two penalties down.

Williams admits he thought the race had got away from him after two penalties had gone against him. “We didn’t agree with those decisions, but we’ll talk to the umpires about them later,” he said. “Even though we were distracted, we still kept the speed on the boat. We were fast downwind all day, and when we managed to get a piece of Swinton we sailed us both past the finish line and got rid our last penalty when we tacked back up to the finish.”

Ian Williams took his first time victory in Germany when all racing was ended after he won the afternoon’s only Finals race, held once again in very light winds. Minoprio felt the Race Committee was correct to draw racing to a close prematurely and was gracious in defeat. “There is no wind at the moment,” he observed. “Ian sailed better than us in the one race we had and he won Qualifying - he deserves the win here. We sailed very poorly in that final race against him and we didn’t deserve it.”

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Sunday it was the turn of 25 knot winds, sharp seas and driving rain in the morning only for these to peter out leading to a long delay before the Semi Finals at Match Race Germany could start. Having come out top of the Qualifier, Ian Williams chose to take on Berntsson in the first-to-three Semis, leaving Mathieu Richard up against Adam Minoprio.

As a light breeze filled in, the GAC Pindar crew came out on top in their first match while the Franco-Kiwi match was more nip and tuck with Richard finally edging ahead on the second beat to take his first point.

Lucy Macgregor and her crew of, Saskia Clark, Claire Lasko and Maria Stanley, lost the first match to local sailor Julie Bossard, but then won three consecutive matches to secure the Saint Quay Women's title in this first event of the inaugural 2013 Women’s International Match Racing Series.

The British crew won 24 of their 29 matches during the ISAF Grade 1 Saint Quay Women’s Match Racing. On the last day of racing she also lost one match in the semi-final, against Dutch veteran Klaartje Zuiderbaan, but apart from that it was all a victorious Sunday.

The heavyweight bout to decide the overall winner of Qualifying at Match Race Germany was in the final flight when Ian Williams’ crew lined up against Taylor Canfield and USone. In this the GAC Pindar team managed to push the US Virgin Islander’s team out to the left hand layline where there was less pressure. “It was a nice job by the boys – 9-2 is a great performance in Qualifying,” said Williams. As winner of Qualifying, GAC Pindar now fast tracks through to the Semi Finals.