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Premier Squash League (PSL) 2010
Round 2 of the 2010 Premier Squash League (PSL) last night saw a shock 4-1 defeat for current champions ‘Surrey Health & Rackets’ at the hands of ‘Exeter Diamonds’.
Alan Clyne was playing for the Surrey side and lost a tight 4 set match to Jonathan Hartford 11-5 10-12 11-3 12-10
But neither side were able to top the B group (south) as ‘TWP St Georges Hill’ (led by PSA No.13 Daryl Selby and WISPA No.9 Laura Massaro) beat ‘UWE Bristol’ to clinch No.1 spot in the table by just 1 point to Exeter.
In group ‘A’ (north-ish) Esporta Oxford, led by Chris Ryder PSA No.36 and Madeline Perry WISPA No. 6, top the group as they won 5-0 against Nottingham. However ‘Chappel Allerton’ went straight into 2nd= place (led by Alistair Walker PSA No.20 and Jenny Duncalf WISPA No.2) as they started their campaign off with a 5-0 win against Pontefract (who have Simon Parke, Lee Beachill and Vanessa Atkinson).
What a league that is! To see all Round 2 results chick here.
Qatar Classic 2010 (PSA $147.5K)
Karim and Nicole take the honours at Qatar.
Karim Darwish, the World No.3 beat the World No.5 Amr Shabana in the all Egyptian final, by 3-1.
Amr took the 1st game in 21mins with lots of lets in a stop start game, but Karim then got hold of the match and won the rest in just 32 mins (11-2 11-7 11-6)
In the WISPA Event No.1 Niclo David beat 4th seed Rachel Grinham in 3 straight games (11-5 11-8 11-9) in just 34 minutes to secure her 4th Qatar Classic and also her 50th WISPA title.
Scotland’s Alan Clyne (now PSA No.52) was beaten in the last round of qualifing by Tom Richards (PSA No.32) – to see the full draw click here.
West Squash Division 1 Results – 10th November 2010
Western v Giffnock – (5-15)
David Lloyd Renfrew v Townend – (14-7)
Newlands v S.S.R.C. – (18-2)
Giffnock 2 v Strathgryffe – (3-15)
Western 2 v Ayr Citadel – (13-9)
Newlands 2 v Glasgow Uni – (TBA)
Commonwealth Games Squash
The Scottish Squash team of Alan Clyne, Harry Leitch, Chris Small, Lyall Patterson, Lisa Aitken and Frania Gillen-Buchert flew out to today to compete in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
And the hunt for a medal in both the men’s doubles and the mixed doubles is the main target for the team; although I’m sure an individual medal would not be turned down either!
Good luck to the team (hope the athletes village is finished and clean!)
No Let – Stroke
It seems that the demise of the ‘Yes, let” call is fast approaching. In the US they are trialling games with both limited lets and none at all; and as you can see from the clip below the reaction from the players is positive (see a guest appearance from Scotland’s Lyall Patterson in this U-Tube clip!)
(see a guest appearance from Scotland’s Lyall Patterson in this U-Tube clip!)
Harrow’s Alan Clyne Retires at Malaysian Open
Alan Clyne had to pull out injured in the second qualifying round at the $52K Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur, due to an ankle injury that meant that he couldn’t lunge towards the ball – AC quote “which is fairly important in squash!”
Alan tweeted that his ankle had been getting more and more sore each day he’d been away so it was immediately obvious that he would not be able to continue in his match against Australian Ryan Cuskelly (PSA No.#43) and he retired after just 7 minutes.
Alan’s quick retirement should help to minimise any long-term injury as he looks towards the Commonwealth Games in India later this year.
To follow Alan on Twitter see @Clynesquash (or to follow me see @BroadberrySport)
West Squash AGM Asks All Member Clubs to Affiliate to ‘Scottish Squash’
In a historic AGM last night the West of Scotland Squash Clubs voted to make affiliation to Scottish Squash compulsory to all its members (just 5 West clubs affiliate at present).
With a majority of 80% of the votes ‘for’ the motion (50 votes to 13) this new proposal will soon be taken to the Scottish Squash AGM to ratify the new membership proposal, before this new deal is finalised.
The same motion, at a West Squash EGM three years ago failed, but only by the narrowest of margins; leading one pro-voter to comment that “We hadn’t lost the vote we were just 0-1 down in the match!”.
Last nights debate was reported to be a ‘lively affair’ with those opposing the motion putting their view in the strongest terms and warning that smaller clubs could go out of business if they are made to find more money (as happened 15+ years ago when West Squash took the requirement of compulsory affiliation out of their constitution).
However those supporting the motion didn’t think that this would happen; and the out-going West President (Henry Reid) was confident that both West and Scottish Squash could work with individual clubs to help them through any difficulties.
(Currently Newlands, David Lloyd Renfrew, Western, Strathgryffe and Nunholm in Dumfries are the five West clubs that choose to affiliate).
Harrow’s Alan Clyne Wins the 2010 PSA Kent Open
Alan Clyne picked up another title this weekend as he won the inaugural $10K PSA Kent Open in Maidstone.
Alan probably thought he would be facing No.#3 seed John Rooney in the final, but the Irishman had to pull out after a Chinese meal gave him food poisoning and this meant he had to concede the semi-final match to his opponent Jonny Hartford.
The final was dominated by Alan with a 3-0 victory in just 35 minutes. To see a full report of the match click here.
2010 Sky Squash Open in Cairo
Nick Matthews beat Karim Darwish to win the final of the $150K Sky Open in Cairo; and the points he gained from winning this tournament also meant that Nick made is to his first ever PSA World No.1 ranking in and his 2nd Super Series win in a row with the 3-1 victory over Karim in just over an hours squash.
Nick is the first Brit since 2004 to take the PSA top spot and an unbeaten 28 match run has got him to this highlight of his career. It’s a fabulous effort to break the domination of the Egyptians (and the French) and Nick paid tribute to his opponent by saying “I was inspired tonight by what Karim did in Saudi and that drove me to play as if my life was on it” which was a reference to when Karim Darwish got to World Number one spot before reaching the finals of the PSA Saudi International Tournament, but then went on to win it anyway.
For more information and the draw click here. 
Alan Clyne in PSL Winning Team
Harrow’s Alan Clyne was part of the PSL (Premier Squash League’s) winning team last week as he beat Scott Handley in 5 games to take his team (Surrey H&R) to a 3-2 win against Esporta Oxford.
Alan, who is now at an all time high of No.62 in the PSA World Rankings, came from 7-10 (match point) down in the 5th against a very experienced opponent in Scott Handley and said afterwards that “I though it was going to be tough, but I didn’t want it to be that tough!”.
Congratulations to Alan on another milestone in his career.
If you’d like to see more details of the final please click here.
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