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Winner |
Runner-up |
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Men's A |
Liam Kenny (11/9 11/6 11/6) |
John Rooney |
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Women's A |
Madeline Perry (9/3 9/2 9/4) |
Aisling Blake |
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Men's B |
Kevin Knox (3-1) |
John Roberts |
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Men's O35 |
David Ayerst (3-0) |
Eoin Ryan |
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Women's O35 |
Michelle Jackson (3-2) |
Dee Hourihan |
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Men's O40 |
Keith Bullen (3-0) |
Jim Flynn |
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Kenny and Perry take ILTB National Titles
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Madeline Perry and
Liam Kenny Irish Champions for 2006 with
John O'Connor of Irish Squash. |
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National winners, Madeline
Perry and Liam Kenny pictured with
Invest Like The Best's Rory Gillen. |
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John Rooney runner-up
and Liam Kenny winner. |
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Liam Kenny winner
of Men's Irish Nationals for 2006 making it a three-in-a-row! |
Liam Kenny and Madeline Perry both secured comfortable
wins in taking their respective ILTB National titles at Fitzwilliam
LTC. Kenny, the defending champion overcame Galway’s No. 3
seed John Rooney 11/9 11/6 11/6 in 40 minutes.
This was the first Men’s final since 1989 not to feature Derek
Ryan. Rooney demonstrated, in his victory over Ryan in the semi
final, that he was back to full fitness having suffered with illness
over the past two years.
The first game started at a blistering pace with both players keen
to control the “T”. An error from Rooney at 9-all followed
by a stroke to Kenny gave him the first game. Kenny got ahead at
the start of the next two games and never looked back in securing
his fourth title.
The women’s event saw Madeline Perry reclaim
the title she had to rescind last year due to injury. Perry has,
despite her own injury problems, been on the up over the last twelve
months, rising to a career high of 6 in the December World Rankings.
The score line (9/3 9/4 9/2) did little justice to Blake who herself
has made strides up the world rankings to a career high of 40. Each
game was hard fought with Perry able to get a run of points going
in each set to break her opponent and claim her eighth National
title.
In the Men’s B Kevin Knox of Waterford overcame
young Ulster star John Roberts in four games. Keith
Bullen of Old Belvedere retained his Over 40 title with
a comfortable win over Fitzwilliam’s own Jim Flynn.
The Men’s Over 35 saw David Ayrst of Belfast
– a newcomer to the event, defeat Fitzwilliam LTC Pro Eoin
Ryan in three sets and in the Ladies Over 35 Michele
Jackson from Belfast beat Fitzwilliam’s Dee
Hourihan in a tight five games.
Last Year 2005 |
