Under 20 Test Team Win for Scotland
Win for Scotland in Under 20 Test Match – West players Kevin Moran and Morgan Maguire were part of the winning Scotland team over the weekend against Wales and England.
The two teamed up with Chris Ferguson (who plays for Giffnock in the West Leagues), Sam Allan and Mhairi Charlton to clinch the U20 trophy by 78 points to Englands 75 points. To see the full results click here
New York’s Tournament of Champions
The prestigious Tournament of Champions in New York’s Grand Central Station will begin next Thursday as the PSA tour moves to America’s East Coast and Harrow sponsored Alan Clyne will be hoping to make it through qualification and into the main tournament draw.
Former winner Peter Nicol (2004) has commented on how difficult this tournament is to play because of all the noise and distractions that go on around the court as New York’s Grand Central Station goes about its daily business. To see his comments click here
To see a preview of the first big tournament of 2010 click here and the draw is here
West Squash Division 1 Results – 13th Jan
To see some of Wednesday’s match reports click the ‘here’ links below.
Western 2 v David Lloyd West End 11-12 – DLWE chalk up 2nd win of the season. Match report here
Giffnock v Newlands 1 11-12 – 3-2 thriller match. Quick report here
Cameron House v Strathgryffe 6-18 – Comfortable win for Division 1s top side.
Newlands 2 v Western 1 3-14 – Shock win for Newlands 2 against a team 4 places above
S.S.R.C v David Lloyd Renfrew 8-13 – hard fought 3-2 win for DLR. Match report here
Whitecraigs Rugby Club v Townend 4-15 – gap widens for Townend
Scottish Squash Performance Director Resigns
The Scottish Squash Performance Director Paul Frank (pic left) has resigned his position as of 1st February 2010.
Paul was in charge for over six years and was instrumental in setting up the very successful training programmes at Herriot Watt University, where many of Scotland’s top young players have the opportunity to train and develop their squash on a permanent basis within a well structured training camp. Read more…
Weather Cancels Scotland ‘B’ Internationals
News just in that bad weather conditions has meant that the Scotland team can’t travel to Cardiff to play the scheduled ‘B’ International Test matches this week against Wales and England. Their plane from Edinburgh was cancelled earlier this morning due to the snowy conditions in Edinburgh.
West Squash Division 1 Results – 6th Jan 2010
Western 2 v Whitecraigs RFC 18-2 – Gary Mc snowed in, in Inverness!
S.S.R.C. v Western (TBA) – SSRC win 3-2
Giffnock v Cameron House (18-1) – Cameron House could only muster 4 players
David Lloyd Renfrew v Strathgryffe (10-12) – match report here
Townend v Newlands (TBA) – cancelled due to snow and broken showers!
David Lloyd West End v Newlands 2 (5-15) – match report here
World Squash Rankings January 2010
1 ) Ramy Ashour EGY – 1184 PSA points (+4)
2 ) Nick Matthew ENG – 1079 PSA points (+2)
3 ) Amr Shabana EGY – 951 PSA points
Happy New Year 2010 (Thanks for the 3000 hits already!)
Happy Hogmanay to everyone who has visited this web-site and thanks so much for the support since it’s launch in November last year; since when the site has had over 3000 hits!
Kirst Lobban Wins Scottish Junior Open Squash Title
Kirsty Lobban was titled Under 15’s Scottish Junior Open Champion 2010 and she was the only Scot to achieve the honour at this years European Tour Event. Kirsty (pictured left with her Harrow racket, receives her winner’s trophy from SSq President Ron Pearman) did it in style, only dropping one game throughout the whole tournament and winning the final 3-0 against fellow Scot Claire Gadsby.
Chris Ferguson also had a great tournament in the U19 category, only being piped 3-1 by the eventual winner Chris Schnell, from Canada, in the 3rd round (and eventually finishing 5th).
To follow any of the final results please click on the links below:
Girls – U11 U13 U15 U17 U19 – Boys U11 U13 U15 U17 U19
If you’d like to see the round-up of all of the finals placings and match reports please click here.
Alan Clyne PSA Squash Rising Star
For the third time in three months Alan Clyne has taken another step towards the top 50 players in the world. He’s risen 6 place to a new career high of No.#68 in the January 2010 PSA World Rankings.
Recent tournaments in Rhode Island, Leinster as well as Alan’s first round debut in the World Open in Kuwait have all helped provide this fantastic 2010 Hogmanay high-ranking for the Harrow man.
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