IRELAND V WALES HONOURS EVEN!
Brian Byrne vs David Haley – Brian has won the match beating David 11-8 in the fifth in 75 gruelling minutes to level the overall match 2 all. However Wales won in games overall 8-7.
A superb effort from Brian having been 2-1 down and only winning the 2nd 12-10. Brian lost the 1st, 6-11 but won the 2nd 12-10. lost the 3rd game which was very tight 9-11. He won a superb 4th 11-8, having raced into a 6-2 lead.
Well done Brian!
Derek Ryan has lost in 4 games to Scott Fitzgearld 4-11, 2-11, 11-3, 9-11. Derek brought the pace down in the 3rd game to win it but just ran out of luck in a tight last game coming back from 9-6 down to get to 10-9 but just lost out.
Steve Richardson made a great start, using all his experience in beating Joel Makin 3-0 in 51 mins. Unfortunatly Arthur Gaskin had a more difficult task and lost to world ranked 67 Peter Creed 3-0 in 44 min.
Now playing Ukraine late this afternoon.
CONFIDENT START FOR IRELAND’S WOMEN’S TEAM
Second seeds and current silver medal holders from last years championships Ireland beat No. 7 seeds Czech Republic 3-0 this morning in Frans Otten Stadion in Amsterdam. It started with Madeline Perry beating lucie Fialova 3-0 in 28 min. Laura Mylotte then beat Anna Klimundova 3-0 in 28 min also. Sligo’s Aisling Blake finished the task with a 3-0 victory over Olga Ertlova 3-0 in 39 min.
A good clean confident start for our women’s team setting them up for their next match which will be a more difficult task vs Wales (6) @ 2pm today.
Keep an eye out for the score of the match as it happens on www.irishsquash.com See full draw below for times of all women’s and men’s matches in the pool games.
WOMENS RESULTS
Ireland W[IRL] – [CZE] Czech Republic W
Match overview
Order |
Event |
Ireland W[IRL] |
– |
[CZE] Czech Republic W |
Score |
Points |
|
|
Duration |
1 |
WS1 |
|
– |
|
11-7 11-5 11-9 |
1-0 |
|
|
0:28 |
2 |
WS3 |
|
– |
|
12-10 11-4 13-11 |
1-0 |
|
|
0:28 |
3 |
WS2 |
|
– |
|
11-6 11-7 12-10 |
0-0 |
|
|
0:39 |
MENS RESULTS
Ireland M[IRL] – [WAL] Wales M
Match overview
Order |
Event |
Ireland M[IRL] |
– |
[WAL] Wales M |
Score |
Points |
|
|
Duration |
1 |
MS1 |
|
– |
|
6-11 6-11 5-11 |
0-1 |
|
|
0:44 |
2 |
MS2 |
|
– |
|
4-11 2-11 11-3 9-11 |
0-1 |
|
|
0:36 |
3 |
MS3 |
|
– |
|
6-11 12-10 9-11 11-8 11-8 |
0-0 |
|
|
1:15 |
4 |
MS4 |
|
– |
|
11-3 11-9 11-8 |
1-0 |
|
|
0:51 |
DRAW – WOMEN
DRAW – MEN