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Squash Players of the Year
Karim and Nicol won the prestigious title of Squash Player of the Year at The 2009 World Squash Awards hosted in London last weekend?
PSA Male Player of Year – 2005 Thierry Lincou, 2006 and 2007 Amr Shabana, 2008 James Willstrop – 2009 Karim Darwish
WISPA Female Player of Year – 2005 Vanessa Atkinson, 2006, 2007 and 2008 Nicol David – 2009 Nicol David
Nicol David ended the season on a good note with a fourth consecutive Wispa Player of the Year award.
At the World Squash Awards in London last weekend (promoted by Peter Nicol & Tim Garner through their sports marketing company ‘Eventis’), the world No. 1 piped world junior champion (14 year old) Nour El Sherbini of Egypt and (Harrow sponsored) Natalie Grainger in the vote by the membership of the Wispa Tour.
The 26-year-old Nicol won seven tournaments on the Wispa Tour this year, including a fourth World Open title as well as the World Games gold medal in Kaohsiung in July and is set to end the year as the top ranked women’s squash player for a fourth consecutive year.
Egypt underlined their status as the new force of world squash as they won the remaining honours.
PSA’s Player of the Year was Karim Darwish while world junior champion Mohamed El Shorbagy took the Young male Player of the Year award and the 14-year-old Nour El Sherbini was the pick for the Wispa Young Player of the Year award.
European U17 Squash Silver Medal Winning Team
The Scotland’s Under 17 European Silver medal winning squash team were honoured by the First Minister, Alex Salmond at a special reception in the capital, to celebrate ‘Scottish Sporting Success’. The First Minister praised Scottish sporting success throughout the year, and afterwards took time to meet with the European silver medal winning team.
The West’s own Morgan McGuire from David Lloyd in Renfrew along with her team mates Greg Lobban, Douglas Kempsell, Ally McCorquodale and Mhairi Charlton (and coach Robin Hamill) all met Alex Salmond, who they told their story of success along with future goals, upcoming competitions and ongoing training schedules.
What a fantastic success for our U17 side and many congratulations to them all.
Squash in the Olympics
Ever wondered why squash hasn’t made it into the Olympics and synchronised swimming has? Me to!
We’ll have a look at this link to see the current (disappointing) situation for 2016 – there is a squash promo video further down the page which I think is very interesting.
Peter Nicol Interview
Ex squash World No.1 Peter Nicol talks about his move back to his home in Scotland’s North East, his decision to switch countries and his belief that to be the best squash player in the world you need to move to England to be exposed to the top standard of play on a regular basis. To see the STV interview click here.
Alan Clyne Climbs World Rankings
Scotland No.1 Alan Clyne reached the Austrian Open final and with this took a rise of seven places to No.85 in the November world rankings. Alan, who is still two places lower than his career high of No. 83, also reached the quarter final of the Leinster Open earlier this month.
Stuart Crawford (who is the second highest Scot on the list at No.131) will fly out to America in December to improve this ranking.
How much do you like the new site?!
Well folks, I have finally done it. (About time, I hear you say!!) Got a site up and running.
Have a hunt around….let me know what you think.
Happy blogging.
Jase
Congratulations!
Congratulations to all David Lloyd Juniors who took part in the West Inter-regional junior squads on 14 and 15 November.
For more information, click here
Jason Broadberry
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