2009 Autumn Pennant Results

Congratulations to all Premiership Winners.

To see all Results click here

 

 

Squash and the Olympics - a Perfect Match!

Dunlop - The "Official Racket" and "Official Ball" of Squash Australia

 

DUNLOP Sport is proud to announce that we are now the "Official Racket" of Squash Australia until 2011. This is a welcome addition to our long term partnership as "Official Ball" of Squash Australia

 

Click HERE for Dunlop's announcement

Squash Prepares For Crucial Bid

The Squash 2016 bid team is making final preparations for its presentation of the low-cost high-impact sport to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board in Lausanne, on Monday 15 June, in its endeavour to have Squash included in the Olympic Games from 2016.
All seven bidding sports will make presentations, and Squash believes that it has all the right attributes to make it worthy of a spot. The bid team will have 30 minutes to prove its worth to the Executive Board. The team of six will be led by IOC Member, HRH Prince Tunku Imran of Malaysia, and will include N Ramachandran, President of the World Squash Federation (WSF), and women's world No1 Nicol David, along with three other players from across the globe.
As well as debuting a brand new video that highlights just how good Squash looks on television, the team will also talk about the impressive universality of squash, and what a low-cost addition to the Olympic Games the sport would be. Just two glass squash courts would be required to stage the competition, and the WSF has pledged to donate these to the host city. The courts can be placed almost anywhere and importantly their donation would be permanent, so Squash would leave a lasting legacy in Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro or Tokyo.
The players will explain how an Olympic medal would be the highest honour within the sport; all the top squash athletes in the world have pledged to be there and to compete. Squash has champions in territories that are not typically successful at the Olympic Games, and is the only sport to have enjoyed World Champions, men and women, from every continent.
N Ramachandran, WSF President, said: "The team has put an enormous amount of work into Monday's presentation, which is a reflection of how important Olympic inclusion is to the whole of squash. We are looking forward to the opportunity to address the Executive Board and highlight the many ways in which squash fulfils the criteria to become an Olympic sport."
As part of the bidding process, Squash was invited to send a representative to the recent 4th International Athletes Forum, the meeting of the IOC Athletes' Commission in Marrakech, Morocco. Alex Gough, CEO of the Professional Squash Association, attended on the sport's behalf and took part in valuable discussions with a variety of Olympic sports and IOC representatives.
"It was a really valuable experience, and I felt that we made some very good input across the board as well as learning from sports which have enjoyed Olympic status for years. In particular, squash players are very well represented by our professional bodies, and a number of sports were very interested in how we do this so successfully," said Gough.

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Wendy Ey ORS Sports Coaching Scholarship 2009/10 Winner

 

Congratulations Lisa Thomson for winning the Wendy Ey

ORS Sports Coaching Scholarship for 2009/10 in Squash.

 

For other winners of the Wendy Ey Scholarships click HERE

Annie Au Defends Championship

Hong Kong' Annie Au will be back to defend her crown when the Clare Valley Australian Open squash championships are held in the South Australian wine growing town of Clare from July 14-19.

Au enjoyed a breakthrough victory when she came from two games down against top seed Kasey Brown in a thrilling finale to last year's tournament.

The 20-year-old entered the 2008 event as a rank outsider, but since then she has climbed to number 18 in the world and will be one of the favourites for this year's title.

Trying to stop her will be Brown, the 2006 champion and runner up in 2007 and 2008.

Brown, the 23-year-old from Taree in New South Wales, is the world number 13 and will be desperate to add her name to the famous trophy for a second time.

However, both women could be upstaged by the in-form Donna Urquhart, who claimed the Australian Closed title last weekend.

Urquhart has won two tournaments in 2009, following her success at the Top End Open in Darwin in May, and will go into the Australian Open full of confidence.

Other prominent entries so far include Queensland's Lisa Camilleri, rising New Zealand star Joelle King and Victoria's Amelia Pittock.

The international flavour of the tournament will also be boosted by an appearance from Czech player Olga Ertlova.

Ertlova, the world number 66 from Prague, is making her first trip to Australia.

The men's draw is shaping as one of the strongest in years, with nine top 50 players on the entry list.

The highest ranked player to have entered so far is Malaysia's Ong Beng Hee (world number 14), and he is joined by Australian pair Stewart Boswell (20) and Cameron Pilley (22), Egypt's Tarek Momen (27), Indian Saurav Ghosal (31), Englishman Tom Richards (33), 2008 runner-up Kashif Shuja from New Zealand (41), Hobart's Aaron Frankcomb (42) and Frenchman Stephane Galifi (45).

Entries close this week.

2009 SA Country Championships

 

4-5 July at the Valleys Lifestyle Centre: Main North Road,Clare

All Glass Court will be in use throughout the tournament.

Entires Close 5pm, Tuesday 30th June 2009.

Click HERE for entry form

 

WHYALLA GRADED and JUNIOR EVENT

JUNE 13 -14    WHYALLA GRADED

 

ENTRIES CLOSE JUNE 5

 

Check out Event Calendar for an Entry Form.

 

Tournament Organiser : Bob Norman

 

Three course dinner on Saturday night not to be missed!

Business SA Graded Series #1 Results

 

Division 1

Winner: Ross Hewitt

Runner Up: Nathaniel Wolff

Match Score: 11-7, 11-7, 13-11

 

Division 2

Winner: Blake Hammat

Runner Up: Matthew Lokan

Match Score: 11-8, 11-7, 11-6

 

Division 3

Winner: Lucas Norman

Runner Up: Craig Brooks

Match Score: 11-2, 11-9, 11-7