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Happy New Year Laura Massaro – World No.1 on 1st Jan 2016
Laura Massaro will have more reason than most to enjoy the New Year as it will bring with it a major prize in squash as the 32-year-old from England, who won the British Open in 2013 and became world champion in 2014, will become world number one for the first time on 1st January 2016 (to see the full BBC article click here).
“Having already won a British Open and a World Championship, it was probably the last box to tick, so for me it is absolutely massive,” said Laura (who will be third female British No.1 and the first since Cassie Campion in 2004)
But just eight months ago her form was so poor she decided to take a break from squash for the first time, when losing in Chicago “I was just losing matches and didn’t know why. I’d been on tour 12 years without a break.”
It was hearing a similar story from a different sport that helped convince Laura that she should actually take a five-week break from squash. when “My husband, Danny, had seen a BBC Sport article with tennis player Petra Kvitova and said: ‘You need to read this – I did and thought it’s exactly how I feel. She had won Wimbledon just a couple of months after I had won the worlds and it was almost like we were on the same path.
“Danny and I went on holiday and I finally started to wake up not thinking about squash. The fog started to lift and I could see where I wanted to go in the future and that I had more to give to the sport. 
Laura returned to action at the British Open in May and quickly demonstrated the rejuvenating effect of her time off with a stunning semi-final victory from two games down against world champion Nicol David. “I made the final of the British Open… that reinforced it was the right decision at the time,” said Laura.
The benefits continue to shine through, with a recent 14-match unbeaten run that included titles at the Macau, Qatar and US Opens propelling her towards the top of the rankings.
‘My goal is to play the best level of squash ever played by a woman’
Laura will replace Egypt’s Raneem El Welily at the top of the rankings on 1 January,
“As number one, my level is obviously the best in the world at the moment and I just have to try and keep improving, so other people are looking at me as though that’s where we need to be and who we need to catch,” Laura said.
PSA Squash World Tour – shot of the year 2015
P.S.A. Team Up with EUROSPORT for 5 year TV Deal
The Professional Squash Association (PSA) have today announced a long-term partnership with Eurosport that could transform the sport’s profile across Europe.
The five-year agreement will become the new home of SQUASHTV in Europe, through their online on-demand channel Eurosport Player, and show close to 500 hours of squash action per year.
DLWE (Kelvin Financial Planning) v Giffnock 1 – Away (Match Report) 9th December 2015
A real tough match on Wednesday against top of the table (and 2014/15 champs) Giffnock 1 (it was a task akin to Bournemouth going to Chelsea! Except they played nothing like Chelsea and we played nothing like Bournemouth!)
On first on was Joe McDonald against Patrick O’Sullivan at No.5 (Patrick has already played against us for the 2nd team…. at No.2!). I will gloss over the first game and definitely won’t mention the granny (!) – but after that Joe did really well by dragging Patrick into his game. So much so that he almost nicked the 3rd game and only lost 16-14
I (Jason Broadberry) went on next against Owen (Haddaway – baby don’t hurt me) Hadden at No.3. This was a bit of a non-game as I suspected it might be. I tried to play a lot straighter as that was the only thing that was keeping me in the rally (but only by a few shots per rally). I could go into all the technical reasons that Owen is much better than me but needless to say I got chopped 3-0 (Haddaway hurt me!).
Doug went on next against Naill Morris at No.5 and played really well in patches, including nicking the 2nd game (a team point is gold dust tonight). It was good to see him turn it up this week, having said that he played rubbish in patches as well! But then I can hardly talk as I was much worse! Still he was really up against it as Naill has only lost one game in about 3 years! (I remember the day Naill – you could be like me in a few years! Remember inside every old person is a young person wondering what the f*** happened!)
Next up was Jason Lang against James Singh at No.2 and as they went on court Owen said to James ‘and you can put your fishing rod away if I’m marking as well!” – he didn’t!
This was always going to be a tough one as both players are young and can get anything – and so it proved. James got the first, but only because of a couple of mistakes at the business end of the game (and a stroke on game ball) and then went 2-0 up with some good tactical advice (and another stroke on game ball). Jase came back in to win a lung busting 3rd, but James had plenty left to win the match 3-1.
Craig went on next at number one against Stuart George. He played particularly well in the first game as Stuart was slightly off the pace, and he managed to sneak this one. After that I felt that Craig lost a little bit of belief. Don’t get me wrong Stuart really stepped it up, but I felt Craig didn’t really take the momentum of the first game into the rest of the match. Having said that he did very well to secure another team point so fair play to him, but Stuart was ruthless for the rest of the match and won 3-1.
Well all of our team disappeared in a steady stream, so it was left to me to talk to the Giffnock lads over about 20 pizzas! James Singh had 4 chips for dinner and was completely full! Whereas Owen and I had about four pizzas each! And you’ll never guess who was the only one to have a beer all night!
Interview with the Wolf
Pictures for RASTA Racketball at Edinburgh Sports Club 28th Nov. 2015
RASTA Racketball Dresults for Edinburgh Sports Club 28th Nov. 2015
2015 World Champion in Washington
The Flying Frenchman Greg Gaultier wins his 1st World Championships 
Greg paid tribute to France when he said about the recent terror attacks “Our hearts were broken, all the French people and all around the world. But so many people came to talk to me and support me about it, we got emails, texts. There should be peace in this world and respect. Whoever you are you have to give respect to people. There should be no terror and today we put on a great fight, but it was a fight with respect on and off court.”
Jason Broadberry
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