The July WSA World Rankings provide an unchanged top 10 after a quiet month on the WSA Tour.
Madeline Perry remains at world number 8 and Aisling Blake at number 26 in the July rankings.
Nicol David extends her stay at the top of the rankings for an 82nd consecutive month. Laura Massaro remains the closest that anyone has been to closing that gap in over three years after success at the British Open in May.
Raneem El Weleily, Alison Waters and Joelle King remain no.3, no.4 and no.5 respectively.
The only change in the top 20 sees Sarah Kippax leap frog Nour El Tayeb to no.19, her highest ranking since January 2012.
Outside the top 20 a few players record career high rankings, Emily Whitlock at no.23, Deon Saffery at no.47 and Barossa Valley Open finalist Tong Tsz-Wing at no.49 making four Hong Kong players in the top 50 for the first time ever.
MEN
Arthur Gaskin remains at world number 94 for July after some good points gained in Australia recently. Ramy Ashour is a firm number 1 in the world after his British Open title win. All the other top 20 players are unchanged from the June rankings.
July 2013 – Women & Men:
WOMEN
1 | Nicol David | 2782.35 | ||||
2 | Laura Massaro | 2348.75 | ||||
3 | Raneem El Weleily | 1896.88 | ||||
4 | Alison Waters | 1413.89 | ||||
5 | Joelle King | 1097.89 | ||||
6 | Low Wee Wern | 981.842 | ||||
7 | Jenny Duncalf | 935.0 | ||||
8 | Madeline Perry | 912.136 | ||||
9 | Natalie Grinham | 862.353 | ||||
10 | Kasey Brown | 770.4 | ||||
11 | Nour El Sherbini | 760.938 | ||||
12 | Camille Serme | 702.059 | ||||
13 | Omneya Abdel Kawy | 671.062 | ||||
14 | Annie Au | 581.316 | ||||
15 | Dipika Pallikal | 530.974 | ||||
16 | Rachael Grinham | 488.048 | ||||
17 | Donna Urquhart | 451.5 | ||||
18 | Sarah-Jane Perry | 434.167 | ||||
19 | Sarah Kippax | 378.25 | ||||
20 | Nour El Tayeb | 378.031 |
MEN
1 | Ramy Ashour | |||||
2 | Gregory Gaultier | |||||
3 | James Willstrop | |||||
4 | Nick Matthew | |||||
5 | Karim Darwish | |||||
6 | Mohamed Elshorbagy | |||||
7 | Peter Barker | |||||
8 | Amr Shabana | |||||
9 | Borja Golan | |||||
10 | Tarek Momen | |||||
11 | Omar Mosaad | |||||
12 | Simon Rosner | |||||
13 | Cameron Pilley | |||||
14 | Daryl Selby | |||||
15 | Alister Walker | |||||
16 | Stephen Coppinger | |||||
17 | Tom Richards | |||||
18 | Laurens Jan Anjema | |||||
19 | Miguel Angel Rodriguez | |||||
20 | Saurav Ghosal |
The July WSA World Rankings provide an unchanged top 10 after a quiet month on the WSA Tour.
Madeline Perry remains at world number 8 and Aisling Blake at number 26 in the July rankings.
Nicol David extends her stay at the top of the rankings for an 82nd consecutive month. Laura Massaro remains the closest that anyone has been to closing that gap in over three years after success at the British Open in May.
Raneem El Weleily, Alison Waters and Joelle King remain no.3, no.4 and no.5 respectively.
The only change in the top 20 sees Sarah Kippax leap frog Nour El Tayeb to no.19, her highest ranking since January 2012.
Outside the top 20 a few players record career high rankings, Emily Whitlock at no.23, Deon Saffery at no.47 and Barossa Valley Open finalist Tong Tsz-Wing at no.49 making four Hong Kong players in the top 50 for the first time ever.
MEN
Arthur Gaskin remains at world number 94 for July after some good points gained in Australia recently. Ramy Ashour is a firm number 1 in the world after his British Open title win. All the other top 20 players are unchanged from the June rankings.
July 2013 – Women & Men:
WOMEN
1 | Nicol David | 2782.35 | ||||
2 | Laura Massaro | 2348.75 | ||||
3 | Raneem El Weleily | 1896.88 | ||||
4 | Alison Waters | 1413.89 | ||||
5 | Joelle King | 1097.89 | ||||
6 | Low Wee Wern | 981.842 | ||||
7 | Jenny Duncalf | 935.0 | ||||
8 | Madeline Perry | 912.136 | ||||
9 | Natalie Grinham | 862.353 | ||||
10 | Kasey Brown | 770.4 | ||||
11 | Nour El Sherbini | 760.938 | ||||
12 | Camille Serme | 702.059 | ||||
13 | Omneya Abdel Kawy | 671.062 | ||||
14 | Annie Au | 581.316 | ||||
15 | Dipika Pallikal | 530.974 | ||||
16 | Rachael Grinham | 488.048 | ||||
17 | Donna Urquhart | 451.5 | ||||
18 | Sarah-Jane Perry | 434.167 | ||||
19 | Sarah Kippax | 378.25 | ||||
20 | Nour El Tayeb | 378.031 |
MEN
1 | Ramy Ashour | |||||
2 | Gregory Gaultier | |||||
3 | James Willstrop | |||||
4 | Nick Matthew | |||||
5 | Karim Darwish | |||||
6 | Mohamed Elshorbagy | |||||
7 | Peter Barker | |||||
8 | Amr Shabana | |||||
9 | Borja Golan | |||||
10 | Tarek Momen | |||||
11 | Omar Mosaad | |||||
12 | Simon Rosner | |||||
13 | Cameron Pilley | |||||
14 | Daryl Selby | |||||
15 | Alister Walker | |||||
16 | Stephen Coppinger | |||||
17 | Tom Richards | |||||
18 | Laurens Jan Anjema | |||||
19 | Miguel Angel Rodriguez | |||||
20 | Saurav Ghosal |
Westwood Summer Camp, Leopardstown, Dublin
Date 6th 7th 8th and 13th 14th 15th of August (Tuesday – Thursday)
Coach Ed Dunne
Time 10:00 – 12:00 (including 15 minute break)
Cost 1 x week €50.00
2 x weeks €90.00
The plan is to limit the number of kids attending to only 6 per session – this will allow for individual attention for everyone and an average of only 2 per court. The camp will focus on playing squash but will also include drills which will improve your child’s
Other coaches/players will join in at some stage including:
Derek Ryan – Ex world number 7, current Irish National Champion and club coach in West Wood
Paul Byrne – Represented Ireland at national level
Irish Squash | Operations Manager
Irish Squash is the National Governing Body for Squash in Ireland. We proactively develop and promote squash throughout Ireland. We offer a comprehensive range of support and services at International, National, Regional and local levels including:
We are in the process of recruiting a full time Office Manager to work in Dublin with Irish Squash. Details and pre-requisites attached to the role are outlined below. Interested and suitably qualified candidates should send their CVs to [email protected] outlining their interest in the position and their relevant experience.
Pre-Requisites for the role
The candidate will ideally be able to demonstrate skills and show experience in the following areas:
Deadline
Applicants should submit their CV to [email protected] by close of business Friday 26th July 2013. No applications received after that date will be considered.
Job Description
You shall, at all times during the course of your employment with Irish Squash, manage, co-ordinate, run and operate the day to day facilities of Irish Squash and, in connection with your role, shall have and carry out the following roles and responsibilities:-
Public Relations:
Strategy & Planning:
· Assist the Board in designing and implementing an annual strategic plan for the promotion and development of Irish Squash
Administration
Tournaments:
Board Assistance:
Financial:
You agree that the title of the job which the Office Manager is employed to do is specified above but Irish Squash reserves the right, as a condition of employment, to require you to carry out other duties associated with your function that are within your capabilities at such place of work as the organization from time to time reasonably require and specify and you specifically confirm, acknowledge and agree to the reservation of this right by Irish Squash and that the duties that might follow from the exercise of that right shall fall within the terms of your employment with Irish Squash.
One couldn’t argue with that, but I suppose it depends what you are comparing it with. Most of the girls in the class do dancing and majorettes outside of school time so that can’t be too ‘smelly’, but the boys nearly all play soccer – enough said.
This was a group of sixth class primary school children who have been getting free squash coaching at TCD over the last two years, courtesy of Irish Squash. Elvy Da Costa with the help of six Trinity students has given them a great grounding in the sport teaching all sorts of ball skills as well as how to score and ref the game.
‘Watching the coaches playing was a great experience for them,’ their teacher said. ‘They saw how to implement the skills which they were learning’.
These children are now leaving Primary School and may not get another chance to play squash for years to come, but having had such an excellent grounding at a very impressionable age there is a good chance that some of them will come back to it in the future.
A number of schools have jumped at the chance of the free lessons, but it is always a struggle to get schools on board as Squash is competing with so many other sports which have a higher profile and well financed sporting bodies behind them. Apparently school principals are inundated with calls from every sport one can imagine.
Irish Squash is to be congratulated on its efforts to promote the game of squash nationwide paying coaches to provide free lessons for any schools willing to make a commitment either during school hours or after school.
Deirdre Davys
Squash Summer Camp 2013 – Sutton LTC with Eoin Ryan
Who: For Juniors
When: Week 1 – 22nd – 26th July (Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri)
Week 2- 6th – 9th August (Tues, Wed, Thur, Fri)
Week 3- 12th – 16th August (Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri)
Limited to 12 pupils per session
Click HERE for all details
Click HERE for all details.
Irish Squash has been lobbying Pat Hickey, President , Olympic Council of Ireland and key member of the IOC Executive board for the inclusion of squash in the Summer games of 2020, as part of the worldwide campaign to bring our great game into the Olympic family.
Mr. Hickey is one of only 16 members of the board and has general overall responsibility for the administration of the IOC which includes the procedure for acceptance and selection of candidatures for the organisation of the Olympic Games.
Irish Squash president, Ed Dunne, Past President, Tom Cantwell and former board member and Chairperson of the Irish Open, Gina Menzies had a very successful meeting with Pat Hickey the week before the vote in St. Petersburg. Mr. Hickey had positive words of support for squash to be included in the 2020 games and was very positive about squash in general.
As we know Squash has been shortlisted with Baseball & Wrestling for the vote at the final IOC executive board meeting in Buenos Aires in early September.
The lobbying campaign by Irish Squash will continue and see HERE a letter of congratulation from Pat Hickey and an invitation to meet him again before the final meeting in Buenos Aires.
Squash Summer Camp 2013 – Mount Pleasant LTC with Max Gillanders
Who: For children aged 6 – 12 yrs.
When: July 22nd – 26th 10am – 3pm & Aug 5th – 9th 10am – 3pm
Click HERE for all details.
In partnership with the University of Ulster and supported by the Irish Sports Council and Coaching Ireland, Gymnastics Ireland is proud to present the GymEDGE Sports Coach Development Programme.
The programme involves a series of workshops, using core fundamental gymnastics skills and training techniques to assist coaches to build the “complete athlete or player”, giving athletes the “the edge”.
The GymEDGE programme is a continuous professional development tool for any coach, from any sport, with any ability, who is interested in making their athletes or players better at their own sports by giving them the edge. It is internationally recognised that Gymnastics as a sport provides key skill sets that can assist other sports develop the complete athlete or player.
Irish Squash recommend coaches attend these workshops to further their knowledge and expertise. If you are interested in attending any of these workshops please e-mail [email protected] with your details and location.
The programme includes 3 individual workshops:
Please click on the links below for more information:
The next Irish Squash Club Development course will take place in Belfast and is scheduled to commence mid July.
The course runs from 9:30 – 5:00pm each day – please arrive from 9:00am to register and complete paperwork.
This programme requires you to work with a support coach for the logged practice requirement element of the course. Please talk to Irish Squash or your local coach about help and support in this area. You should also talk to the club or squash centre you plan to provide the coaching in after you have finished the course. Please also read through this article on safeguarding children prior to attending the course.
Payment for the course must be received before the start of the course.
If you are interested in attending this course or have any queries please e-mail the Irish Squash office or Dorothy Armstrong in Ulster Squash