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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!)

Draw is available here

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Newlands tonight and the bad news was that we were without Kev at No.1, but the good news was that it wasn’t Newlands 1^st team!

So first on was our new No.5 Colin (Richards) v Gary Nicholson and what a start Colin made after initially going 1-4 down! A great come back saw Colin lengthen the rallies and play some great stuff to get to game ball.

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 The biggest BSPA (British Professional Players Association) Tournament of the year is once again coming to Edinburgh Sports Club this January.

The Artemis Sponsored ‘Edinburgh Open’ will be on between 26th and 29th of Jan to showcase some of the worlds biggest names in squash.

To see the draws chick:

Here for the Men’s BSPA Draw

and

Here for the Women’s WISPA Draw

Hope to see you there to watch some great live squash.

Happy New Year! Well it’s good to be back after the holidays, but having eaten too much and put on about a stone I thought I was in for a thrashing against a tough Western side, but of course you always forget that it’s not just your team that hasn’t played much and has eaten all the mince pies! Anyway I was inspired to greatness by watching the Squash on TV this weekend (What a fantastic match; amazing shots and wonderful movement, which doesn’t resemble my game in any way!)

I was on first at No.3 against the legend who is Kevin Lawlor. Beating Kevin for the first time is still one of my best ever matches (back in the day!) and so a healthy amount of respect is due every time you play him.

The first was a tight one at 5-5 and any time Kevin had a volley he comfortably tucked me away, fortunately……… (contd below)

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Well I was thinking if we play really well and everything goes our way we could get a 3-2 out of this! However we didn’t take into account the Newlands Foreign Legion that travelled up to bolster the ranks. I said to the Newlands team manager and head honcho “Were you a bit worried about us Alan?”

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 Harrow’s Alan Clyne has risen to a new career high World PSA rankings of No.33 and was invited to the Punj Lloyd PSA Master in Delhi to compete in the last major tournament of the year.

Unfortunately he was knocked out last night by Alister Walker (PSA No.17) in a tough 1st round encounter as (apparently) Alan was suffering from Delhi-belly.

Nick Matthew had to pull out of this tournament with an adductor injury and this has left the door open for James Wilstrop to take the World No.1 spot if he wins the tournament; but it’s a big ‘if’ with Ramy Ashour back  and with both Gerg Gaultier & Karim Darwish in great form.

Have a look at the 1st round highlights here

Have a look at the Tournament Draw here

No match last Wednesday as we had a week off, but this Wednesday is against Newlands (away) – nice easy one to finish the 1st half!

Also don’t forget the World Open Squash Tournament is on on Sky this week on Wednesday 10.30am (Sky Sports 2) – 1.00pm (Sky Sports 2) – 4.00pm (Sky Sports 3). Set those digi-boxes!