I’m delighted to announce that Blair Christie is the newest member of the Harrow Squash Team and will be playing and coaching with the Harrow Vapor.
Blair is an ex-Scotland International at Under 16 & 19 and was Scottish No 1 for around 18 months at Under 19; as well as being U19 Scottish Champion (he also captained the U19 team at the Worlds in Hong Kong and the European Championships in Denmark).
All-in-all Blair received around 50 caps at all levels (including Senior B squad several times in home internationals – and this was in the days when Scotland had Peter Nicol/Colin Keith/Peter O’Hara/Barry Sutherland etc) and he’s now developing squash in Central Scotland where he has recently started coaching.
Ex-Scottish International, Scottish over 35′s No.1, Coach, West League No.1 for Newlands Peter O’Hara has done it all in Scotland and I’m delighted to announce that he is now going to continue his squash career using Harrow rackets.
Peter was impressed by the weight and feel of the Harrow Vapor and felt it was the right time to make a change to the new racket. And I’m really looking forward to seeing the ball being fizzed all over the court by ‘Pistol Pete’ wielding his new weapon!
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The 2010 Scottish Junior Nationals saw Harrow’s Kirsty Lobban (left) win the girls U15 age group and Gillian Crawford come 2nd in the girls U19 and Chris Leiper (right) added a 3rd place in the boys U17s to complete the Harrow 1-2-3.
David Lloyd Renfrew’s Morgan Maguire won the girls Under 17s and there was also an all David Lloyd semi-final in the boys U15s between Ben Mazzucco (from the Glasgow West End Club) who was just piped by the eventual U13 winner Jason Lang (from the Renfrew Club).
And the future is looking bright for the West as another two players took the honours in the U13s with Harry Anderson of Whitecraigs RFC winning his first national title and Adam Reid from Whitecraigs LTC/Newlands winning the U11s.
After qualifying for the £40K Motor City Open in Michigan, Alan managed to draw the top seed (and Tournament of Champions semi-finalist) Karim Darwish. And despite a good performance in the first game he lost in three games by 11-9 11-7 11-4. Details are all available here
Unfortunately Alan lost in the 1st round of the Tournament of Champions, but he put in an improved performance against Gregory Gaultier (who is 64 places above him in the PSA rankings) since their last encounter at the World Open.
Happy Hogmanay to everyone who has visited this web-site and thanks so much for the support since it’s launch in November last year; since when the site has had over 3000 hits!
Kirsty Lobban was titled Under 15′s Scottish Junior Open Champion 2010 and she was the only Scot to achieve the honour at this years European Tour Event. Kirsty (pictured left with her Harrow racket, receives her winner’s trophy from SSq President Ron Pearman) did it in style, only dropping one game throughout the whole tournament and winning the final 3-0 against fellow Scot Claire Gadsby.
Chris Ferguson also had a great tournament in the U19 category, only being piped 3-1 by the eventual winner Chris Schnell, from Canada, in the 3rd round (and eventually finishing 5th).
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For the third time in three months Alan Clyne has taken another step towards the top 50 players in the world. He’s risen 6 place to a new career high of No.#68 in the January 2010 PSA World Rankings.
Recent tournaments in Rhode Island, Leinster as well as Alan’s first round debut in the World Open in Kuwait have all helped provide this fantastic 2010 Hogmanay high-ranking for the Harrow man.
This weekend (12th & 13th Dec ’09) saw over 50 YoungSTARS play the Christmas Tournament at Newlands. Billy Stevely, the Giffnock coach, brought a very strong contingent who took 8 of the prizes on offer.
Emma Ford and myself ran the Harrow sponsored tournament on Saturday morning for the younger players and Sunday afternoon for the older ones and we were delighted with the 53 players who participated and we were also very impressed with the ever improving standards on show.
To see a list of the Winners and Runners-up please click the “Read more…” button below.
