On Sunday 21st May, Essex Squash held their inaugural Open Squash57 Singles Championships!
It was a hugely successfully day at The Woodford Wells Club (WW) with the Progress Tour Tennis finals being played in the glorious May sunshine adding to the overall enjoyment.
There were 6 titles up for grabs and a special mention should go to the ‘les bienvenus’ group who braved the squash courts in front of a large audience, the RU being Averil Murphy (WW - a multi-time world squash champion) who lost out to Jill Marshall (Broxbourne - like daughter like mother?).
The final of the O60’s saw UKRB regulars Akhtar Khokhar (WW) defeat in-form Martin Sawyer (Lings Squash Northampton). Dave McKenna (WW) is back from long-term injury troubles and cruised to victory in the O50’s only dropping a game to David Morse (WW) who eventually came 3rd with Paul Chaplin (WW) stealing a march on him to get the RU slot. In the O40’s it was Stacy Thickbroom (Kingswood) who won, taking full advantage of an early hamstring niggle that slowed down Peter Cossey (Surrey Sports Park) who was the eventual RU. Stacy did the double by also winning the ‘OPEN B’ category with Paul Chaplin as RU (again).
The ‘OPEN A’ event was a crowd puller. In the semi-finals Gareth Naidoo (WW) defeated old-timer Patrick Osborn (WW) 2-1 and Antony Savage (Kingswood) defeating Paul Wallace (Kingswood) in a marathon (17+ minutes/game) 2-0 affair. This was arguably the downfall of Tony who went down 2-0 to Gareth in the final.
Videos of some of the matches can be found in the YouTube video playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQqNxkx4OjivpdRq8DUXQ0N2Oegh6FwWF
A huge thank you to everyone who helped out in the build-up and on the day including our sponsors Karakal UK & Reflex International.
It was a hugely successfully day at The Woodford Wells Club (WW) with the Progress Tour Tennis finals being played in the glorious May sunshine adding to the overall enjoyment.
There were 6 titles up for grabs and a special mention should go to the ‘les bienvenus’ group who braved the squash courts in front of a large audience, the RU being Averil Murphy (WW - a multi-time world squash champion) who lost out to Jill Marshall (Broxbourne - like daughter like mother?).
The final of the O60’s saw UKRB regulars Akhtar Khokhar (WW) defeat in-form Martin Sawyer (Lings Squash Northampton). Dave McKenna (WW) is back from long-term injury troubles and cruised to victory in the O50’s only dropping a game to David Morse (WW) who eventually came 3rd with Paul Chaplin (WW) stealing a march on him to get the RU slot. In the O40’s it was Stacy Thickbroom (Kingswood) who won, taking full advantage of an early hamstring niggle that slowed down Peter Cossey (Surrey Sports Park) who was the eventual RU. Stacy did the double by also winning the ‘OPEN B’ category with Paul Chaplin as RU (again).
The ‘OPEN A’ event was a crowd puller. In the semi-finals Gareth Naidoo (WW) defeated old-timer Patrick Osborn (WW) 2-1 and Antony Savage (Kingswood) defeating Paul Wallace (Kingswood) in a marathon (17+ minutes/game) 2-0 affair. This was arguably the downfall of Tony who went down 2-0 to Gareth in the final.
Videos of some of the matches can be found in the YouTube video playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQqNxkx4OjivpdRq8DUXQ0N2Oegh6FwWF
A huge thank you to everyone who helped out in the build-up and on the day including our sponsors Karakal UK & Reflex International.
