A crowd of between 60 and 70 watched Tania Bailey beat second seed Kimberley Hay comfortably, 11-1, 11-7, 11-4.

This meant that Tania had won the women’s event for the second consecutive year, and without dropping a game at Boston Squash Club

At last we are able to bring some good news about the squash courts.

The Squash Club Committee has approved expenditure to sand the floors and paint the walls (with squash court paint) of courts 2 and 3. This funding comes from club reserves built up during the past years.

This refurbishment will vastly improve the game quality for players as the floors and walls were becoming very slippery.

Court 4 is also scheduled to have a completely new floor fitted and walls painted as soon as possible during the coming Christmas / New Year period, but no firm date has been set yet.

All being well we will have four top quality courts to play on by the first week or two of 2010.

Heating
During the school holiday period (11th Dec – 3rd Jan incl) when the school is not using the courts during the day the courts can become extremely cold. Accordingly, during the holiday period, the court fan heaters will be switched on at 4.30 every day to warm the courts up before the usual start time of 5.30.

PLEASE NOTE: During the school holiday period the squash courts are available for booking ALL DAY weekdays and weekends, but unfortunately the heating will only come on at 4.30.

(This situation is being addressed and we hope to be able to come to a more satisfactory arrangement soon)

Squash Court Booking on the Internet
Martin Brewin and Simon Barker have been asked to review the various products and systems available for the Committee and we hope to be able to implement an internet/web-based court booking system early in the New Year. (For those who don’t have internet there will be a facility at the club to book courts as well).

Best regards,

Martin

Mixed results so far for the Stamford Squash Teams in Peterborough & District Squash League

The details are below:-

Stamford I
Stamford II
Stamford Juniors

We can even name and shame the individuals by checking out the individuals results!!

However, in the Cambs Leagues, Stamford are sitting in third place, looking for promotion into Division 1

Tania is still coming back from injury and made a good effort. Find out more here

Tania is one of the players profiled by England Squash on You Tube.

You can click here to see other squash related videos by England Squash.

Click here to listen to Tania talking about an early return after injury.

The ‘Tania Team Training’ evening held on Monday May 4th and sponsored by the club, was well attended and very successful.

Following the recent “Play Squash with Tania Bailey’ during which all club members were invited to come along and have a game with Tania, this event was designed to give current and potential team players a bit more of a workout and some tips from Tania’s professional eye on how to improve their game.

Initially players were divided into groups of three per court, carrying out boast and drive routines. These developed into drive, straight drop or boast routines, to keep the person at the front on their toes, and then straight- or cross-court drive, straight drop or boast to keep those at the back on their toes as well.

The routines then turned into drop-drive-drive and drop-drive, the objective being to improve playing to length from the front and playing short from the back, in addition to court movement.

During these Tania watched from the balcony, advising on movement and technique. The results were impressive, all players becoming aware of definite improvements attributable to the tips Tania was handing out. Players remarked on her ability to watch just a few points being played and then make a very accurate assessment of how to make slight changes (or sometimes not so slight) which often resulted in dramatic improvement.

Finally, players played normal games up to 5 points, watched by the rest and with Tania commenting and critiquing to those watching during the points and giving advice to the players themselves when finished. Everyone played and received the benefit of Tania’s advice, and all agreed that the evening had been very enjoyable and of enormous benefit.

Tania is now taking a break for a while but the club will definitely be organising other evenings both for all club players and team members during the year.

A special thank you to Maurice for running Finals Day and to those who marked the matches.

The results of the 2009 Finals were:-

Ladies – Hardingham Cup
Winner: Debbie Bowen, R/U: Emma Barnard

Over 60s
Winner: Peter Hand (w/o Bruce Dilks not well)

Over 55s
Winner: Dave Batterbee, R/U Jeff Potter

Copperstore Cup
Winner: Spencer Beresford, R/U Mark Lavers

O45 Joseph Cup
Winner: Simon Barker, R/U Martin Shippey

Vivian Handicap
Winner: Simon Morris, R/U Mark Smith

Chase Cup
Winner: Mark Smith, R/U Glyn Williams

Mark Smith (winner) vs Glyn Williams in Mens Chase Cup Final

Mark Lavers vs Spencer Beresford (winner) in Copperstore Cup

The Trophies!

The papparazzi invaded the Club Dinner…. …were you caught!