Broadberry Sports

 The Charity Food4Africa http://food4africauk.org/ (run by a certain Dawn Broadberry – never heard of her!) is joining with the Legends of Squash (Peter Nicol, Jonathon Power etc) to build a new squash court in rural South Africa for the local community.

Dawn (the Charity’s Director pictured left with Squash Legend Jonathon Power) says “People can associate with our charity if it relates to their lives so building a squash court along with our feeding projects, in association with the Legends of Squash seemed like a perfect idea.”

If anyone would like to donate directly they can at www.justgiving.com/legendslegacy or text SQUA04 and your amount (e.g SQUA04£10) to 70070. Alternatively if you’d like to get involved as a squash club then why not hold a fun tournament and if you raise over £500.00 for the charity then we’ll put your club’s name on the “Friends of the Court” board when it’s finished (let us know how you are helping and we can help publicise it and send you information on the charity – e-mail dawn@food4africa.org).

Dawn added “We’re also holding a Spring Gala Ball at the Crowne Plaza in Glasgow on March 17th and there will be ways to help directly with building the “Food Court” via our silent auction including a painting from local artist and squash player Emilio Fazzi a classic signed ‘Nouillan‘ photo of Peter Nicol (in action playing another squash legend Martin Heath – back in the day!) and more!”

If you’d like to come to the Charity Gala Event please contact dawn@food4africa.org or j.broadberry@virgin.net

Well Whitecraigs Rugby tonight and a match we really hoped to win, but they went away with the points.

All three courts were in use, so I didn’t see all the matches. First on was Jason (Lang) v Matt Anderson at No.4. This is one I didn’t see, but Jason won the 1^st game, before Matt came back strongly to win the next three. All the games were 8s and 9s so a tough match, but one up to WC. (Cont’d below)

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So it was all arranged to start early at 6.30pm for the No.3 & 4. The 2 DLR Jason’s were ready and raring to go. At 7pm Hamilton’s No.2  Kenny Boyle was the first to turn up and went straight on.

I was told that Colin McMullan would play either our No.3 or 4 “whoever we wanted.” I thought this was a novel way of picking the order of your team! (cont’d below)

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Tonight’s match had three coaches, the under 19s National Champion and the guy who just took a game off world No.2 James Wilstrop at the British Nationals …………… and a pirate – as the mighty Lloyds matched up against ‘The Gryffe’!

First on was Jason (Lang) v Garry McIlree at No.5. This was a tight match that went one way then the other. Jason took a tight 1^st game, Garry a good 2^nd, tie breaks in the 3^rd and 4^th went both ways – and so to the 5^th!

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To say that Kevin Moran (David Lloyd Renfrew/Scotland) got a tough draw in the British National Championships is putting it mildly as he lined up against No.1 seed (and PSA World No.2) James Wilstrop.

But he fought through two qualifying rounds to get this match, so should have relished the opportunity to play the world’s best. Unfortunately James managed to beat Kev today, but Kev got a game before losing the tie 11-3  9-11  11-4  11-4 so he must have a number of positives to take from that match.

Stuart Crawford (Scotland’s ‘Assistant National Coach’) also fought his way through the qualifying rounds to meet the No.9 seed Robbie Temple in another tough 1st round draw. Again he wasn’t able to progress, as he lost his tie 3-0 (11-5  11-5  11-5).

Congrats to both players for making it through.

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It was anyone’s game tonight against Giffnock!

First on at No.5 was Jason (Lang) against The Mugger (Graham McAinsh). A real tough ask of the youngster here, but Jase caught Graham cold and won the 1^st game 11-6. However a bit of complacency set in at this point and I think he didn’t realise that the Mugger was only just warming the joints up, so the was duly mugged in the 2^nd and the 3^rd games. Graham looked like he was cruising to victory at this point and Jason was wondering what had gone wrong. But of course nothing had, the momentum had just shifted; and it needed shifting back, and fast! …………..

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The University this week at home so we were expecting a strong performance as the Uni are struggling in the league at the moment.

First on was our new regular No.5 Jason (Lang) and he was up against Ollie Blackmore. Jason was into his stride from the word go this week and was playing a good length mixed in with some positive stuff to the front (or occasionally crazy stuff to the front as us old-boys would have it!) to win 11-6 and much the same in the 2^nd to also win 11-5. However Ollie staged a good come-back in the 3^rd as Jason’s positive shots to the front became positive shots into the tin once too often for my liking (crazy I say!) to lose this one 9-11. However he managed to screw-the-nut for the 4^th and round off another good performance (11-5) to take the match 3-1 and another MOTM for me.

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 Nick Matthew is the 2012 New York Tournament of Champions winner and he also regains his World No.1 spot for next Month.

Nick beat James Wilstrop in an excellent 85 minute final by 3-1   (8-11  11-9  11-5  11-7)

Have a look at the 5 minute highlights package by clicking here and playing the Squash TV Final Round up

In the Ladies final Natalie Grinham thoroughly justified her No.1 seeding as she thrashed Dipika Pallikal 11-4  11-3  11-3 in just 25 minutes to win her first TOC title.

(below is a great clip from the Shabana v Rodriguez match at match point!)

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