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Racketball Around Scotland with Big Peat (Islay Blended Malt Scotch Whisky) Inaugural Tournament at Whitecraigs LT&SC Glasgow
Big Peat invites all Racketball players to Whitecraigs LT&SC in Glasgow on the 30th June (in just 9 days!) to play the inaugural tournament in the new ‘Racketball Around Scotland Tour’.
The tournament will be a 1 day event and all players will be guaranteed 3 matches. There will be different grades from beginner, to club player, to a Premier Division for players who want to get UK Racketball Ranking Points.
Every racketballer will get an exclusive inaugural T-shirt and a ‘taste of Peat’ with a micro-bottle for all competitors; and the winners will get much bigger Big Peats! (and other prizes).
Scottish Open Racketball Championships 2012
Well it’s been all over the press (!) so you must have heard by now that the inaugural Scottish Open Racketetball Championships were held in Dumfries at the weekend (sponsored by Pathfinder Park Homes).
The tournament was a great successs with an ‘Open’ Championship as well as five different ‘Masters’ Tournamnets. The Tournament Director, Kieth Gristwood, organised the draws, the club, the catering, the sponsors, the players the markers, the trophies and even the night out on the Saturday (not to mention playing in the final; after a 5 set semi-final!). A great effort from all at Dumfries who helped him out.
And the Results? Well I thought I’d have a go as I’d no idea if I was any good or not and it turns out I’m OK, as I won the Open Tournament! Thankfully some of the “big guns” didn’t enter, but none the less I’m delighted and very proud to be the very first winner of the Scottish Championships.
Full results are available here
Scottish Juniors U19s Squad Finish on 20 Year High!
An excellent result for Scotland’s squad in Portugal at the 2012 Under 19 European Team Championships.
The No.11 seeds included Harrow’s Dougie Kempsell, Rosie Allan and Kirsty Lobban as well as Jamie Henderson and Chris Leiper; and they performed brilliantly in the ‘Pool C’ matches beating most impresssively Germany, but also Holland and Poland. These wins secured them a quater-final match against the Czech Republic which they also won 3-0.
The team then went on to play England in the semi-final, where unfortunately they narrowly lost 2-1 (to the eventual winners) but none the less they were the only team to take a tie from England.
In the 3rd/4th place play off match they eventually lost out to France 2-1, but to finish 4th, having been seeded 11th, was a massive achievement and the best result for almost 25 years (since 1988).
A special mention must got to Harrow’s Dougie Kempsell who won 7 out of 7 matches in the Tournament – a fabulous achievement.
If you’d like to see the results have a look here for the teams & here for individual results
Also SSq match reports are available:
Harrow’s Alan Clyne at British Nationals
Unfortunately Alan Clyne lost his game yesterday as went out to Tom Richards the No.6 seed in the British National Championships in Manchester.
Tom now goes onto play Nick Matthew in the Semi-final today and in the other half it looks like going with the seeding as James Wilstrop and Daryl Selby (the No.2 & 3 seeds) play their quarter finals tonight against Jonathan Kemp and Chris Ryder respectively, but you never know!
To see the draw click here
New Jonathon Power Rackets Available
Why not check out the New Range of Jonathon Power Custom Pro Rackets in the ‘Harrow Shop Tab’ (or alternatively just click here)
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.
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)
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.
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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