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Squash Queen Sarah Fitz-Gerald is back!

Australian squash legend and 5 time World Champion Sarah Fitz-Gerald (pic) will make her comebacks at the Women’s World Teams Championship in the New Zealand, while she is teaming up with former World No.1 Rachael Grinham to play together for Australia. Fitz-Gerald and Grinham will be joined by Kasey Brown and Donna Urquhart. The Australian team will be managed by Fitz-Gerald’s former team-mate and long time rival, Michelle Martin. “It’s very exciting to welcome Sarah and Rachael back into the team,” said Martin, a former 3 times World Champion herself.

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Nick Matthew celebrates double gold in Delhi!

England’s Nick Matthew brought his 2010 Commonwealth Games campaign to a magnificent climax in Delhi when he won gold in the Men’s Doubles with team mate Adrian Grant to add to the gold medal he won in last week’s singles final. In the final match on the spectacular ASB all-glass showcourt, the favourites battled to hold off the Australian 2nd seeds Stewart Boswell & David Palmer – and recovered from losing the 2nd game to win 11-9, 6-11, 11-5 in 133 minutes. “It’s definitely the biggest moment of my career,” said the world No2 Nick Matthew. “I didn’t get the chance to celebrate my singles medal, but now I will be able to. I made a good decision not to play a major Tour event in Egypt later this week. I put aside thoughts of regaining my world number one ranking for the sake of two gold medals.”

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Australia won the Mixed Doubles final in Delhi!

It was a first squash gold medal of the 2010 Games for Australia when Kasey Brown & Cameron Pilley (pic) beat New Zealand outsiders Joelle King & Martin Knight 8-11, 11-7, 11-5 in a 96-minute Mixed Doubles final. When asked how it felt to win his county’s first squash gold medal this time, the 27-year-old Pilley responded: “It’s special – but more so because you’re playing for all of squash in Australia. It’s an honour to put on the Australian colours – it gives you something extra, and I think that showed when we came back from one-nil down.” Malaysian Nicol David & Ong Beng Hee beat Australian Donna Urquhart & David Palmer for the bronze medal play-off.

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New Zealand takes women’s doubles gold!

After Carol Owens and Leilani Rorani won the women’s doubles gold medal in 2002 in Manchester, it was the 2nd time in Commonwealth Games history, that a New Zealand women’s team won the title. 4th seeded Jaclyn Hawkes (pic le) and Joelle King (pic ri) beat 3rd seeded English team Jenny Duncalf with Laura Massaro in straight games (11-9, 11-10) in 60 minutes. The bronze medal was guaranteed to Australia, while top-seeded Kasey Brown with Donna Urquhart beat their compatriots Lisa Camilleri and Amelia Pittock (11-4, 10-11, 11-5).


Matthew and King In Double Gold Bid In Delhi!

England’s Nick Matthew and New Zealander Joelle King (pic) will be going for double gold in the Commonwealth Games Squash Doubles finals after both survived arduous semi-finals in Delhi. Matthew, the world No2 who won singles gold for the first time, partnered Adrian Grant to an 11-10, 11-9 win in 65 minutes over 4th seeded Australians Ryan Cuskelly & Cameron Pilley in the Men’s Doubles semi-finals. Joelle King, the world No24, had to play three matches. After first winning her Mixed Doubles quarter-final with Martin Knight, the 22-year-old paired up with Jaclyn Hawkes to upset Australia’s No2 seeds Lisa Camilleri & Amelia Pittock 5-11, 11-5, 11-5 in a Women’s Doubles semi – then immediately afterwards linked back with Knight in their 11th-seeded Mixed partnership to see off the third-seeded Malaysians Nicol David & Ong Beng Hee 11-7, 11-10 in 53 minutes. Men’s Doubles Final: [1] Adrian Grant & Nick Matthew (ENG) v [2] Stewart Boswell & David Palmer (AUS). Women’s Doubles Final: [3] Jenny Duncalf & Laura Massaro (ENG) v [4] Jaclyn Hawkes & Joelle King (NZL) Mixed Doubles Final: [1] Kasey Brown & Cameron Pilley (AUS) v [11] Joelle King & Martin Knight (NZL).


Scots down English in Commonwealth Doubles upset!

Alan Clyne (pic) and Harry Leitch pulled off a major upset in the quarter-finals action in the Commonwealth Games Squash Doubles when the Scots downed England’s 3rd seeds Peter Barker and Daryl Selby in straight games to reach the Men’s Doubles semi-finals in Delhi. Scotland – which boasts only one doubles court, off the Scottish coast on the Shetland Islands – has targeted doubles as its specialist area. Unranked Leitch, a postgraduate medical student at Cambridge University, and Clyne, the world No50, showed this conclusively as the pair carved up the experienced Englishmen 11-7, 11-7 in 69 minutes. Men’s Doubles semi-final line-up: [1] Adrian Grant & Nick Matthew (ENG) v [4] Ryan Cuskelly & Cameron Pilley (AUS), [2] Stewart Boswell & David Palmer (AUS) v [5] Alan Clyne & Harry Leitch (SCO).

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Who will break the English dominance?

Commonwealth doubles and mixed doubles are on the way. Is anybody ready to break the English dominance? It looked like, that the best chance to do so, will be on the women’s and mixed top-seeded teams with the Australian combination of Kasey Brown/Donna Urquhart and Kasey Brown/Cameron Pilley.
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Egypt reclaims World Junior Team title in Quito!

In a dramatic climax at the Men’s World Junior Team Championship in Quito, top seeds Egypt beat defending champions Pakistan 2/1 to win the title for the 3rd time after 1994 and 2006. New world individual champion Amr Khaled Khalifa put the favourites into the lead after beating Pakistan no.1 Danish Atlas Khan (11-3, 11-9, 11-3). 2nd seeds Pakistan levelled when Nasir Iqbal overcame individual runner-up Ali Farag 11-8, 6-11, 11-7, 2-11, 11-8 in a dramatic 65-minute encounter. 17-year-old Marwan El Shorbagy decided the match, when he beat 18-year-old Pakistani Farhan Zaman 11-5, 4-11, 11-9, 11-9. Canada the 5th seeds celebrated their best finish since 1992 after upsetting 3rd seeds and former champions England 2/1 in the bronze medal play-off.

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