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by Steve Townsend
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I was kindly invited to the England Squash and Racketball Coaches Day on Thursday. We listened to some very interesting speakers throughout the day, and then we were lucky enough to hear Peter Nicol talk to us about the transition from promising junior to world class player. Now I'd turned...
Just got back from Munich where I watched Sj win the Euro Junior Crown, so I'm chuffed for her and really pleased I went. You cna read more about the squash on her blog. A couple of things that were worthy of note. The tournament seemed very efficiently run, everyone knowing there jobs and ti...
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...
Blog from the 2009 Tecnifibre BJO. Not only did El Shourbagy do a professional job retaining the Drysdale Cup at the BJO last week, but he did so gaining a few admirers with the spirit in which he did it. It has to be said that the Egytians have really cleaned up their ...
