Breanne Flynn is on the cusp of achieving a career-best PSA ranking after enjoying a sharp rise of seven places following last week’s Monte Carlo Classic. The 30-year-old went into the 24-player, $32.5K Copper status tournament ranked No.116, and she scored a deserved 3-0 win over Nadia Pfister, the No.99 from Switzerland, in the round […]
Ireland have won three titles at the eight-event IACT Irish Junior Open, with Scotland and Spain clinching two apiece and England one after a brilliant three-day tournament in Dublin. After several matches were played at ALSAA on Friday and Saturday to accommodate the huge 162 player list, all the Sunday focus was on host club […]
Only three of the eight No.1 seeds – England’s Aditi Rao (GU15) and Ireland duo Zoe Yeomans (GU17) and Christian Dromgoole (BU17) – have safely negotiated their way through to Sunday finals at the IACT Irish Junior Open following two days of rip-roaring action in Dublin. The BU19 final will feature Brazil’s Owen Hendricks [9/16] […]
Five of the eight top seeds at this weekend’s IACT Irish Junior Open at Sutton and ALSSA in Dublin are Irish players, including recent Spanish Junior Open champion Harry Knox. The Celtic player will open his BU13 top-of-the-draw account against a qualifier on Friday afternoon, with No.2 seed Ailong Chen of Mount Pleasant also billed […]
The draws have been published for this weekend’s eight-event, 162-player IACT Irish Junior Open in Dublin. The 2024 tournament catered for 132 players but the upcoming edition, hosted again by Sutton LTC from Friday to Sunday, has an additional 30 entries. Five of the eight events have Irish players seeded as the No.1 – Harry […]
Squash Ireland is calling on clubs to nominate their best volunteers for the 2025 Volunteers In Sport Awards, hosted by the Federation of Irish Sport. It’s believed that 460,000 volunteers are involved in all sport across the island of Ireland, with a fair chunk assisting the participation, growth and promotion of squash. Nominations are now […]
Hannah Craig is hoping to fire up her season with participation at this week’s $124.5K China Open. The PSA women’s No.68 has yet to break the first-round barrier in 2025/26, as she fell at the first hurdle in New York and Toronto. However, she is now in Shanghai preparing to take on Aifa Azman, the […]
Sam Buckley has enjoyed another major bounce up the PSA men’s squash rankings, climbing to No.95 following his run to the Bern Open semi-final. Buckley had recorded a major milestone when his 5eme Open Lagord quarter-final appearance in France catapulted him into the top 100, the first Irish men’s player to get that high since […]
Two of last year’s Irish Junior Open champions will play at the 2025 tournament next weekend in Dublin. Ireland’s Zoe Nyhan, who won the 2024 GU13 as the No.1 seed, will compete in the GU15 event while Spain’s Alberto Mateo, who came through as the 5/8 seed to win the BU17, is entered in the […]
