NCS players won a number of great victories at this tournament, played in February at the Sports Club/LA in Washington DC. Unseeded Ryan Lovallo won in BU15 in a deep 12-player field with competitors from five states and DC. Michael Lovegrove, also unseeded, came back from a 2-1 deficit to beat the #1 seed 13-11 in the fifth. He then took third place. Jeremy Barnes played up a division and won BU19 without dropping a game.
Sophia Yazigi win GU15, winning all her matches 3-0 on the way to her first tournament victory. Anna Wasserman played in her first ever tournament in GU19, and clinched the deciding match in five games to secure the win.
Bryan Keating, a 2010 graduate of The Potomac School from Chevy Chase, MD, was named the men's College Squash Player of the Week in February. Now a junior at Cornell University, Keating won the honor for delivering the deciding fifth team match win for Cornell over previously undefeated and #1 ranked Princeton. It was just the second time Cornell had ever defeated Princeton and it was the first home victory for the Big Red.
At the team national championships two weeks later, Bryan was one of just three players in the top division to win all his matches by 3-0 scores. At the championship Bryan also received one of the College Squash Association's Scholar Athlete Awards. In April, he was named co-captain of the team for the coming season and received the men's team … Continue Reading ››
Daily Squash Report led with this story: "It took the longest recorded squash match for more than 30 years to decide the Squash Revolution National Capital Open Presented by Oliver title when Canadian Shawn Delierre beat England's Adrian Waller in two hours and 37 minutes, surviving a battle which went the full distance and featured four tie-break games. The fourth game of the climax of the PSA World Tour Challenger 15 event in Washington DC alone lasted 44 minutes!"
The tournament was played at regional clubs, including Chevy Chase Athletic Club, which hosted the final, Results The Gym, Worldgate Sport & Health, Sports Club/LA, Potomac Squash Club, Potomac School, Bare Hills Athletic Club and Meadow Mill Athletic Club.
Congratulations to the players from our area who won draws in the Woodruff-Nee softball and Potomac Squash Fever #14 tournaments. The Woodruff Nee was played at the University Club early in February:
Woodruff Nee Winners
Open 2.5 -- Stephen Nurre
Open 3.5 -- Benjamin Levine
Open 5.5 -- Anuroop Talwar
Men's 60+ -- Bruce Simons-Morton
Potomac Squash Fever #14 Winners
Open 2.5 -- Aadil Husain
Open 3.5 -- Zach Najera
Open 4.0 -- William Craig
Open 4.5 -- Benjamin Smith
Open 5.0 -- Ben Rind
Women 3.5 -- AJ Copeland
Men 40+ -- Jonathan Lam
Men 50+ -- Ross Campbell
Pro-squash comes to DC this week. The Squash Revolution National Capital Open Presented by Oliver tournament features Canada's Shahier Razik (Canada #1 and World #32) and Egypt's Mohd Ali Anwar Reda (World #37) and many other top World top 50 players from 10 nations.
Two quarterfinals matches are sponsored by National Capital Squash and are FREE! These matches are Thursday, Jan. 10 at 7 PM or 7:15 PM. You need a ticket to attend, which you can get for free here.
You can buy tickets to the semis and final matches here. Don't delay, as tickets are limited and both matches are likely to have great squash. The semis start Friday at 7 PM and the Saturday final begins at 7 PM.
Pro-squash comes to DC this week. The tournament features Canada's Shahier Razik (Canada #1 and World #32) and Egypt's Mohd Ali Anwar Reda (World #37) and many other top World top 50 players from 10 nations.
Two quarterfinals matches are sponsored by National Capital Squash and are FREE! These matches are Thursday, Jan. 10 at 7 PM or 7:15 PM. You need a ticket to attend, which you can get for free here.
The round of 16 and quarterfinals of this PSA professional squash tournament will be played at clubs in our region, including Worldgate Sport & Health, Results The Gym and Bare Hills (Baltimore). The semifinals and final will be played at Chevy Chase Athletic Club on Jan. 11 and 12.
Ask your club's pro if the club will be hosting a match.
For tickets for the semis or final go to AussieNick.
Jacqueline Barnes pushed one of the world's top junior women -- Aparajitha Balamurukan -- to four games at the Queensland (Australia) Open Women's Pro-Squash Tournament. Her Indian opponent reached the 3rd round at the Junior Worlds last summer. To put that in perspective, no US woman got past the third round. Balamurukan then knocked out the #2 seed (World #50) in three games. The November Women's Squash Association rankings are out and the 18 year-old Barnes is now ranked as World #136.
Kira Keating is now ranked #2 in GU17 in the USA thanks to reaching the finals of the Junior Championship Tournament (JCT) - Connecticut. This is one of the highest rankings ever achieved by an NCS junior. Kira also made the finals of the Philadelphia Squash Club Gold, playing up an age division in GU19, where she beat the US #24 in three games.
Peter Giraudo reached the … Continue Reading ››
Play has begun in divisions for ALL skill levels -- from novice to expert -- in league play from November to March. Juniors are welcome to play on teams too.
If you have not played in a squash league before, it is a great way to meet other squash players in the area at your skill level and play in a team setting, which is a lot of fun! You don't have to play every week as teams have rosters with extra players.
Click here to get more info on each squash club's teams and how to join a team. If you can't find a team at your club, respond to this email and we will try to find a good fit for you.
Women's Squash
The Women’s Squash all-levels Holiday Hit and Social will be on Saturday Dec 8 this … Continue Reading ››
Come see the finals of the Inaugural NCS Championship.
In addition to the excitement of the final matches on the courts, refreshments will be served courtesy of National Capital Squash.
The location is to be determined. You can get more info and enter the tournament online here. The deadline to enter is Jan. 7.
Open Skill Levels
Open 2.5 Singles
Open 3.0 Singles
Open 3.5 Singles
Open 4.0 Singles
Open 4.5 Singles
Open 5.0 Singles
Open 5.5 Singles
Men’s Age Groups
Men 40+ Singles
Men 45+ Singles
Men 50+ Singles
Men 55+ Singles
Men 60+ Singles
Men 65+ Singles
Men 70+ Singles
Women’s Skill Levels
Women 2.0 Singles
Women 2.5 Singles
Women 3.0 Singles
Women 3.5 Singles
Women 4.0 Singles
Women 4.5 Singles
