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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.
P.S.A. Q&A (just for fun)
To see some lighthearted Q&A’s from the top squash players in the world click here!
West Presentation Evening
The West Squash End of Season Dinner and Presentation Night was held this weekend at David Lloyd in Renfrew and if you’d like to see the photos of the evening please click here.
Squash Exhibition for Charity
Edinburgh Squash Club will host an star-studded exhibition night of squash on May 8th featuring James Willstrop, Alex Gough and Vanessa Atkinson all in aid of ‘The Prostate Cancer Charity’.
James is PSA World Ranked No.5 and Vanessa is currently W.I.S.P.A. World Ranked No.13 (and Alex Gough was also top 5 in the world and is now the P.S.A. C.E.O. but is still renound for his ‘antics’ on – and off – the court!!)
And the festival of squash is being run by a former Scottish Internationalist, Lisa McKenna in memory of her father Brian.
Tickets are available from Edinburgh Squash Club – details here and the evening will be topped off with a live band and an auction (you can bid at Lisa’s website, details here)
Harrow’s Chris Leiper is Awarded ‘Peter Nicol Junior Player of the Year’
Harrow’s Chris Leiper won the 2009/10 ‘Peter Nicol Grampian Junior Player of the Year’ award this season and not only that but Peter was on hand to present the trophy in person.
Chris has had many successes this season including a top 3 finish in the Under 17s at the Welsh Junior Open , top 3 in the Under 17s Scottish Nationals (both events were European Grand Prix event) and Chris has been selected to represent Scotland at No.1 for the under 17s European Team Tournament this May in Prague.
All this and he’s Ranked at number 2 in Scotland for the under 17s. Congratulations Chris on a fantastic year’s squash.
Harrow’s Peter O’Hara Wins The 2009/10 West Closed
Peter O’Hara (Newlands) won The 2009/10 West Closed Title at SSRC this weekend by beating Owen Hadden (Giffnock) in the final on Sunday. The match was 3-0 to Peter and although he always seemed to be in charge of proceedings Owen did make life tough for him by getting a couple of good leads in the individual games, especially the 2nd.
However when he was under pressure Pistol Pete always seemed to find another nic, which left Owen wondering what he had to do to keep the pressure on. Another impressive West Closed win for Peter and his 11th Title. (pic left Peter O’Harrow!!) To see all results click here
In the ‘B’ event Norman Patterson (Wishaw) came back from 2-0 down to beat Ashley Stevenson (David Lloyd West End) in an epic 5 games (results here) and Kieran O’Neill (Whitecraigs Rugby) won the ‘C’ event final 3-1 (results here) against Maggy Dick (from SSRC).
Alan Clyne Wins PSA Super Satellite Tournament in Ireland
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.
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