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by Steve Townsend
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Well I know you are all desperate to know how I got on in my next round. Well I lost. Yes, I know, not good. It was 9-7 in the fifth and 1 hour 42 mins long. Bring on American scoring for the over 35's! Annoying as it is to play for that long (my longest ever match) and lose, it gave me enough poi...
Having played my 1st round at the National O35 Champs yesterday, I was watching my old "charge" Jonathan Kemp in his match with Nick Matthew. What a match! On a very warm, bouncy court Kemp was taking it to Matthew (in his usual style) but it was somehow differe...
Having played and lost a monster match that was pretty important (to me anyway), I headed for the front door at Pontefract, so as not to get the "unlucky"s, the "well played"s and other well meaning comments when all I wanted was to be with my own thoughts. As I sat on the...
On court with Olivia, a 9 year old girl at my club "Steve, I want to be in the Olympics" "That's cool Olivia, for what sport?" "Squash of course!" "Ah sorry, of course. You'd better hope we get in then. Let's see in 2016 you'll be 16, that's a bit yo...