Winners as follows:
The Dutch Squash Masters 2011 took place in Amsterdam on 28-30 October 2011.
Ireland had three representatives:
Neil Stone-Wigg and Darren Withey
All three competitors had a successful weekend and as the business-end of the draw kicked in had some very tough games. Neil Stone-Wigg played Darren Withey in the final, an opponent who has represented England for the past 2 years in the 45+ team. The first game was poised nicely at 9-9 before things started to unravel for Neil. Gerry O’Neil came up against Guy Davies in the 65+ category, a very strong player who has spent a lot of his life in South Africa and still had the spring in his step of a springbok! Gerry then comfortably won the 3rd/4th playoff for the combined 65+/70+ with a win over Horst Bauer. Myron Evans won the 70+ section, not letting anyone get any closer to him than a 3-1 scoreline. Myron then met the springbok in the final, and the lob and drop maestro that is Myron failed to get his game plan to cause enough trouble for his opponent!
Ireland was well represented at the European Masters Tournament held in Porto, Portugal with players in various sections of the competition including Over 35, 40, 45, 50 & 70s Sections. In the over 35’s, Ciaran McCoy lost at the quarter final stage in a hard fought game against the eventual finalist Stefan Leifels from Germany. Ciaran finished in the 5/8 section of the tournament 8 places above his original seeding.
Eoin Ryan (over 40) performed well and was unlucky to lose 3-2 at the quarter final stage. This epic match took place on the show court and delighted the packed crowd. James Flynn, Jonathan Simpson, Nick Staunton and Damien O’Reilly all went out of the main draws early but did well in the plate sections of their age categories with Neil Stone-Wigg also reaching the quarter finals of the over 50’s section, before withdrawing from the tournament due to an old reoccurring injury.
Barbara Sanderson followed up her world master win from last year, by coming from 1 set down to win 3-1 and adding the European title to her wins, with a very impressive and professional performance.
In the 70+ semifinal Myron Evans had a very long match in hot conditions with John Preston before winning 3-2. In the final with John Woodliffe, Evans levelled the match at one all, however Woodliffe had a comfortable 3-1 win.
The 
draw took place on the final day of the Irish Open in Fitzwilliam L.T.C. A big Thank You to all who supported it.
The winners were as follows:
Irish Squash AGM – This years Annual General Meeting will take place at 2.00pm on 10th June in Sport HQ, Dublin.
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