Women’s top seed Hannah McGugan and men’s No.3 Alex Smith won Ulster Senior Open titles on Sunday at Belfast Boat Club.
McGugan, the PSA No.221 from Ballynafeigh SC, came into the tournament on the back of recent appearances on the international circuit in Andorra, Switzerland and England. That activity stood to her in her five-player, two-day round-robin event in Northern Ireland.
All four matches were won 3-0, including against second seed Aimee McConnell, the Ballynafeigh player who finished runner-up in an event where Westwood’s Sara Sabry, the recent Connacht Senior Open title winner, placed fifth.
The seven-player men’s A event had Sean Conroy of Leinster CC listed as the No.1 seed but he was picked off 3-1 in the final by Smith, the No.3 from Fitzwilliam who defeated Celtic’s Brian Knox and Oisin Logan, the Sutton player who was this season’s Munster Senior Open title winner.
Ewan Kielty of Sligo won the men’s B title as the fifth seed, defeating the No.2 Nathan Wilkinson of ABC 3-0 in the final of the eight-player event.
Will Rea of Western and Omair Azam of Queens were unbeaten in their men’s C section groups. No.7 seed Joe Kelly of Belfast BC won the eight-player D section, beating No.4 Haris Papavlasopoulos of Windsor 3-0 in the decider.
