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 21st Friendship Cup.
This is an invitational interclub event held annually between Carlow, Liverpool, London and Rotterdam clubs. Now in it’s 21st 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 3rd 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
IRISH SQUASH IS RUNNING A COMPETITION FOR THE CLUB WHO RUNS THE BEST WORLD SQUASH DAY ACTIVITIES
TO ENTER
PRIZE FOR THE WINNING CLUB
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.
Entry is now open for the 2014 DUTCH MASTERS OPEN
Click HERE
The Nordic Junior Open, a Super Series event is held in Malmo, Sweden and Irish Squash had 14 Juniors taking part.
Scott Gillanders lost the final of the Nordic Open 3-1 against European No 1 Victor Byrtus. Scott had an amazing tournament
beating European no.2 Yannick Wilhelmi 3-2 in the semi final. Byrtus was a step too far on this occasion after a poor start Scott won a hard fought second game and despite finishing the stronger in the third – he had allowed Byrtus too great a lead – lost 11- 7. The fourth ran away from Scott quickly and he never re-established himself. It was a good performance but a great performance was needed.
Dylan Moran was the other stand out Irish Junior, managing to win all his matches in the Boys U11 category, 3-0. In the final he beat Philipe Georgiev of Bulgaria in the battle for first place, with a 
convincing 3- 0!
Emma Dineen got to play on the glass court and a podium finish of 3rd in U11’s
This tournament started well for the Irish with 9 players from the 14 Irish players reaching the quarter-finals. Probably unprecedented and demonstrating our strength in depth.
Click HERE for pictures from the tournament.
WELL DONE TO ALL THE PLAYERS
The Call: Official PSA Resource for Referee & Player Development
The PSA, with the full support and co-operation of the WSF, has
developed a website (“The Call”) that offers a number of video-clips
from squash matches with the intention of educating both referees and
players alike to understand the latest thinking about the Rules of
Squash and their application.
The primary aim of this website is to enable referees and players to
view video clips that illustrate the two-fold obligation of all players
(a) to clear the ball after hitting a return, and (b) to make every
effort to play the ball. Reducing the number of stoppages in a match
because of lets will increase the flow of play and make the game more
enjoyable to watch.
PSA’s “Mission Statement” is as follows:
“It is the goal and responsibility of every player and referee to make each game we participate in, flow to
the best of our ability, helping to improve the image and watchability of our uniquely exciting, dynamic and
demanding sport”
The examples of the interpretation of the rules shown on The Call aim to help achieve the goals as
described in the above statement. Another aim for the channel is to help to create discussion points while
developing a consistent interpretation and application of the rules around the world.
The great news is that the channel is accessible to anyone who wants to view it in order to see how the
game is being interpreted at the PSA level. The overriding goal is of course to improve the flow of the game
at all levels.
On the home page you will see the most recent activities, under “Headlines” you will see popular collections
and videos: you can click these to go directly to the relevant video clips. Alternatively, you can click on
“Collections”, which will take you to each rule and provide a description of the rule, or click “Explore” which
will take you to all of the videos which are appropriately tagged.
Video clips can be viewed in two viewers: HTML5 or the Silverlight app. The latter allows you to see
associated keywords and videos. You can change the viewer in the top right corner of the Video or Explore
pages.
The CALL is an ongoing project and videos will be continually added, changed and adapted as determined
by consensus.
You can view the channel by clicking The CALL
To view the rules online click World Squash Singles Rules 2014
While this website was initially developed for the PSA World Tour, its
message is valuable and valid for all levels of play. We hope,
therefore, that all referees and players will log on and view the
material, so that the interpretations that are presented there will have
a beneficial impact on squash everywhere.
The Call: Official PSA Resource for Referee & Player Development
The PSA, with the full support and co-operation of the WSF, has
developed a website (“The Call”) that offers a number of video-clips
from squash matches with the intention of educating both referees and
players alike to understand the latest thinking about the Rules of
Squash and their application.
The primary aim of this website is to enable referees and players to
view video clips that illustrate the two-fold obligation of all players
(a) to clear the ball after hitting a return, and (b) to make every
effort to play the ball. Reducing the number of stoppages in a match
because of lets will increase the flow of play and make the game more
enjoyable to watch.
PSA’s “Mission Statement” is as follows:
“It is the goal and responsibility of every player and referee to make each game we participate in, flow to
the best of our ability, helping to improve the image and watchability of our uniquely exciting, dynamic and
demanding sport”
The examples of the interpretation of the rules shown on The Call aim to help achieve the goals as
described in the above statement. Another aim for the channel is to help to create discussion points while
developing a consistent interpretation and application of the rules around the world.
The great news is that the channel is accessible to anyone who wants to view it in order to see how the
game is being interpreted at the PSA level. The overriding goal is of course to improve the flow of the game
at all levels.
On the home page you will see the most recent activities, under “Headlines” you will see popular collections
and videos: you can click these to go directly to the relevant video clips. Alternatively, you can click on
“Collections”, which will take you to each rule and provide a description of the rule, or click “Explore” which
will take you to all of the videos which are appropriately tagged.
Video clips can be viewed in two viewers: HTML5 or the Silverlight app. The latter allows you to see
associated keywords and videos. You can change the viewer in the top right corner of the Video or Explore
pages.
The CALL is an ongoing project and videos will be continually added, changed and adapted as determined
by consensus.
You can view the channel by clicking The CALL
To view the rules online click World Squash Singles Rules 2014
While this website was initially developed for the PSA World Tour, its
message is valuable and valid for all levels of play. We hope,
therefore, that all referees and players will log on and view the
material, so that the interpretations that are presented there will have
a beneficial impact on squash everywhere.
