Ciara Moloney and Brian Byrne boyth won superb finals in the Leinster Senior Open played at Fitzwilliam LTC over the weekend of 14th – 16th November. Ciara played Sachika Balvani, a player who is on a squash scholarship in the USA and is studying at UCD for 6 months. it was a great match and a super  challenge for Ciara which she met head on. In the 5th game she had a couple of match balls which Sachika save but Ciara won through on her next match ball to win 11-9, 9-11, 11-5, 10-12, 12-10.

Brian Byrne met the 18 year old Michael Craig in the mens final which promised to be a titanic struggle with the super retrieving of Brian and youthful exuberance of Michael. Brian is working very hard at his game with national coach Hadrian Stiff and you can see the results. Even though it ended in a 3-0 victory for Brian it was very close with some super rallies many over 50 strokes in length. This match will be good for Michael in his transition into Senior squash. The match score was 11-9, 11-6, 12-10.

Video of all matches played on court 1 will be up on Aertv/Sportslive this week. See HERE

For full results click HERE

The French Junior Open is now taking entries.

LEINSTER  MASTERS SQUASH OPEN

Fitzwilliam L.T.C. & Mount Pleasant L.T.C.

Friday 7^th  to Sunday 9th  November 2014

To view draw click HERE

The Scottish Junior Open is being held over a weekend this year -9^th – 11^th January 2015.

Entry forms and all details at:-    http://www.scottishsquash.org/junior-squash/scottish-junior-open

Tournament contact

Name:	Neal Pollock
Phone:	07738973930
Email:	[email protected]

Tournament days

Friday, October 24, 2014 to Sunday, October 26, 2014

To enter click HERE

Some recent pictures taken as part of World Squash Day

Barnstown Squash Club in Wexford hosted a great day to help promote World Squash Day 2014. Congratulations to all involved it looked like a great day!

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Some images from Highfield Squash club in Cork who hosted a super day for World Squash Day

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Please send in your photos and don’t forget to enter our competition!

Highlights from the Delaware Investments US Open Final 2014

Carlow Junior Squash turned in a terrific performance this weekend at the Victoria Squash Centre, Rotterdam this weekend where they were overall winners of the 21^st Friendship Cup.

This is an invitational interclub event held annually between Carlow, Liverpool, London and Rotterdam clubs. Now in it’s 21^st year, it was victory to the Carlow team of Matthew Downey, Jake Somers, Jamie Stafford and David Kavanagh. David Kavanagh reached the final of his section and finished runner-up and Jake Somers finished 3^rd in his. The event is scored on an overall basis where every score/match counts and remarkably the 4 man team beat the 20 strong Liverpool contingent by just .1 of a point.

Well Done Boys!

There was a super entry for the 2014 Ulster Junior Open, the second tournament on the National Junior Tour. 90 players have entered in 10 events, playing over the weekend in Belfast Boat Club.

With 5 age groups in the boys section from U11’s to 19’s. in the girls section there are draws in 13’s 15’s & 17’s

In the Boys U11’s Sean Murphy beat Jack O’Flynn both from Mount Pleasant

In the boys U13’s  Denis Gilevskiy is the number 1 seed beat the No.2 seed the new U11 Nordic Open champion Dylan Moran, In the 15’s Scott Gilanders who also had a super tournament in Malmo is the No. 1 seed lost to the new U15 entrant, Conor Moran. In the 17’s Oisin Dunne had a good win over Sutton clubmate Luke Logan. And in the 19’s local Thomas Abraham beat Harry Lloyd.

Hannah McGugan won the U13’s by beating brenda Li from Mount Pleasant. In the U15’s Cork’s Sophie O’Rourke the National u15’s champion beat Belfast’s Ellie McVeigh the No. 2 seed.  In the 17’s Hannah Craig is seeded No. 1 and she justified that by beating Stephanie Ryan from Sutton No. 2 seed.

To see the all the results click HERE

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This is the last call to players and clubs to participate on WORLD SQUASH DAY.

To celebrate WORLD SQUASH DAY and help promote both your club and our great game of Squash, IRISH SQUASH urge you to organise a day of activity in your squash club.

This is an opportunity to bring your club together and also to promote the club and Squash to the community in your area.

So please organise play in your club on Saturday the 18th of October.

Irish Squash particularly encourage you to organise play for juniors in your club/community, even if they have never played before. Visitors are especially welcome and should be encouraged to come along.

Ideas for Play

• Mini Box league with play offs for the Day
• Junior Mixed Open – Ranked by ability/Mix ages and girls & boys
• Handicap singles for Seniors/Masters
• Introduction to Squash for new players and juniors in particular.

IRISH SQUASH IS RUNNING A COMPETITION FOR THE CLUB WHO RUNS THE BEST WORLD SQUASH DAY ACTIVITIES

TO ENTER

1. Send in full details of the activity which took place in your club on the day to include:
2. Description of play/activities which took place
3. Numbers of all participants
4. Numbers of under 18 participants and ages (an estimate)
5. Number of visitors to the club who participated
6. At least 8 pictures (minimum) of activities in the club on the day
7. A least 1 picture including the World Squash Day Logo (available here)
8. What you believe the day achieved for the club
9. E Mail all the information and pictures to: [email protected]

PRIZE FOR THE WINNING CLUB

• 3 x Dunlop gear and racket bag
• 5 x Dunlop Biomimetic PRO GTS 130 Squash Rackets with racket cover
• 10 x Dunlop I-ARMOR Goggles
• 10 x Women in Sport Tee Shirts
• 24 x Double-dot Dunlop Squash Balls

The judges decision will be final with no appeal allowed. They will decide on the winning club entry, based on the quality of the activity and number of participants, particularly number of visitors – a group picture of all participants, with someone holding the ‘World Squash Day 2014’ logo is mandatory, otherwise the entry will not be accepted.