Four Irish players – including PSA women’s No.139 rank Breanne Flynne – are set to play at the European Individual Closed Squash Championship in France.
The four-day event at Chartres, which begins on August 20, has attracted 89 entries across two categories, and Flynn is looking for ranking points following her recent involvement with the Ireland squad at the World Squash Junior Championships.
Flynn used her experience as a professional player to assist the team of 10 headed up by David Noone, the Squash Ireland junior performance coach. She also provided physio to the players across the two-week event in Cairo.
Now home from Egypt, she is eagerly awaiting the women’s singles draw for the tournament in France that has its finals pencilled in for August 23.
Last year’s event was held in Spain and Hannah Craig, the No.61 PSA rank who defeated Flynn in last February’s Irish Nationals final, finished 18th in a 41-player category.
Denis Gilevskiy finished 17th in the 50-player men’s event in Cuenca, but, like Craig, he isn’t playing in this Individual Closed Championship renewal in France.
Jack O’Flynn, though, will hope to build on his 35th-place finish in Spain. He is one of three players from last weekend’s PSA Satellite men’s event in Dublin who are registered for Chartres.
O’Flynn was beaten to third place at Fitzwilliam by Alex Smith, who will also play in France.
The third men’s player to travel will be Sean Murphy, the PSA event winner. He beat Smith in the Dublin semi-finals before clinching the title with a four-game final success over Brian Byrne.
