Madeline Perry

Grinham stuns Brown in Australian Open!

Former champion Natalie Grinham (pic) caused the biggest upset of the Australian Open in Canberra when she bundled 5th seed Kasey Brown out of the 2nd round. Grinham stunned the world No6 in 4 tense games 11-9, 7-11, 12-10, 11-9 to move into the quarte...

Perry beat Massaro to rake Singapore crown!

Laura Massaro produced the performance of the year so far to stun world No1 Nicol David (11-7, 11-8, 5-11, 11-9) in a 85 minutes encounter at the semi final of the Singapore Masters, as 3rd seed Madeline Perry (IRE, pic) ended the run of France's Camil...

Donna dumps Waters in Cayman Islands shock!

In the 4 matches of day 1 at the Cayman Islands Open, Australian Donna Urquhart (pic ri) produced 'one of, if not the' best results of her career when she upset English world No5 Alison Waters (11-5, 11-9, 9-11, 10-12, 11-7 ) in the inaugural WISPA Wor...

Perry Powers into World’s top three!

Madeline Perry (pic ri) leaps 3 places to a career-high No3 in the latest Women's World Rankings to become the highest-ranked Irish woman of all-time in the April list published by the WISPA. The list is headed by Nicol David (pic, le), the Malaysian w...

Nicol David Makes 8th consecutive KL climax!

Top seed Nicol David (pic le) confidently reached the women's CIMB KL Open final for the eighth year in a row after beating English rival Alison Waters (pic ri) in straight games (11-4, 12-10, 11-5 ) in the semi-finals in Kuala Lumpur. It was the end o...

Massaro and Perry through to the semis in Manchester!

Laura Massaro cruised into her 5th successive semi-final when she beat Welsh No1 Deon Saffery in Manchester’s quarter-finals. The world No9 took just 22 minutes to ease past the unseeded Saffery 11-3, 11-3, 11-7. Massaro will meet Irish rival Madelin...

Massaro downs Duncalf in Cleveland!

In the first Tour victory over her England team-mate for almost five years, Laura Massaro (pic) upset world No2 Jenny Duncalf in straight games (12-10, 11-4, 11-2) in the Cleveland Classic to claim an unexpected place in the semi- in the US state of Oh...

Atkinson secures Dutch success in Rotterdam!

Dutch Vanessa Atkinson (pic) played one of her best matches to claim the Dutch Open title in Rotterdam. The 34-years-old Dutch former World Champion (2004) crowned her tournament week with an impressive straight-games win (11-9, 11-3, 11-7) over Irish ...