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Harrow’s Alan Clyne won this weekends “West of Ireland Open” in Galway and he didn’t drop a game in the whole tournament!

Alan who was seeded No.1 took the $8K PSA final 3-0 against Piedro Schweertman 11-4  11-8  11-5 and in-so-doing will have done his World Ranking absolutely no harm. to date. To see the full results please click here. Congratulations Alan and good luck in cracking the top 50.

Harrow’s Stuart Crawford was also in action in this event, but unfortunately lost to Spain’s Alejandro Garbi in a tough 1st round match.

What a semi-final night at the PSA Canary Wharf Classic in London on Thursday night. The game of the tournament saw an epic 2 hour and 7 minute match between Nick Matthew and James Willstrop (which included a 20-18 win in the 3rd game to Wilstrop).

After the 7th minute of the third hour of this grueling match James had to retire in the 5th game at 8-10 (match ball) after cramping up whilst diving for a ball in the back of the court!

In the final Gregory Gaultier faced Nick Matthew and it was Nick who prevailed by winning his first Canary Wharf Title 3-1 (12-10  6-11  13-11  11-3). For more detail click here.

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Nick Matthew won the PSA North American Open this weekend by beating Ramy Ashour (the World No.1) in the final by two and a half games to nil!! (11-9  16-14  5-4 ret. inj)

Ramy had to retire in the 3rd game due to a niggling foot injury he’d been carrying for some time, but it was the physical pressure that Nick put him under that forced this retirement. Ramy was up 9-7 and 7-4 in the first two games and had it not been for the sheer determination of Nick Matthew he could have easily gone onto win the title. 

To see the final results and a match report from Martin Heath please click here.

Nick Matthew took his 3rd British National’s Title last night when he beat James Willstrop in last nights final.

Nick won the match 3-0 in 50 minutes and said “That will go down as one of my best performances – I didn’t make many errors and it’s not often you beat James 3/0″.

James admitted ”I just felt lacking physically, no push, no spark, I couldn’t inject and so couldn’t use my racket”.

In the women’s final there was an upset as Alison Waters (seeded 2) beat Jenny Duncalf (seeded 1) in a thrilling 3-2 final; with the last game going to 12-10.

Alison said “That’s one of the best matches I’ve ever played, it was neck and neck all the way and I hope it was good for the crowd!”

To see the final results click here and to see the report click here

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

Well that was a bit of a turn up for the books!

James Willstrop is The New York Tournament of Champions Champion.

James beat the PSA World No.1 Ramy Ashor 3-1 (12-10  11-5  9-11 11-3) to secure his first ever New York win.

To see the draw click here and the details of the matches click here

And that’s not the only World No.1 he had to beat. On his journey to the final he had to overcome Amr Shabana and Karim Dawwish, both of who have been at the top of the Sport last year and in Amr’s case for some considerable time before that. Which is why James ranks winning the 2010 Tournament of Champions as the best win of his career.

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.

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The prestigious Tournament of Champions in New York’s Grand Central Station will begin next Thursday as the PSA tour moves to America’s East Coast and Harrow sponsored Alan Clyne will be hoping to make it through qualification and into the main tournament draw.

Former winner Peter Nicol (2004) has commented on how difficult this tournament is to play because of all the noise and distractions that go on around the court as New York’s Grand Central Station goes about its daily business. To see his comments click here

To see a preview of the first big tournament of 2010 click here and the draw is here

1 ) Ramy Ashour EGY - 1184 PSA points (+4)

2 ) Nick Matthew ENG - 1079 PSA points (+2)

3 ) Amr Shabana EGY - 951 PSA points

4 ) Gregory Gaultier FRA - 791 PSA points (-2)

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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.

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