Senior Squash 2007 - 2008

Please note the following alteration to Irish Squash Bye-Laws in relation to players who make late withdrawals and/or who fail to complete competitions:

‘In the event that a player scratches from a tournament after the draw is made then a two tournament ban is imposed on the offending player (relevant to both senior and junior). A one tournament ban and 0 points penalty will be imposed should a player pull out during the tournament. Either of the above will not be enforced in the event of a medical cert being submitted.’

This bye-law has effect from January 1, 2007

West of Ireland Open:
The full results are available on the tournament page.

Mount Pleasant Open:
Men's A:
Final: Derek Ryan beat Steve Richardson 3-0
3/4: Peter Emmanuel bt Arthur Gaskin (inj) w/o
5/6: Rory Byrne bt Niall Rooney 3-2
7/8: Nick Staunton bt Nigel Peyton 3-1
9/10: Neil Martin bt Neal Murphy w/o
11/12: Kevin Knox bt Ronan Peyton 3-1
13/14: Brian Knox bt Gordon Harpur 3-0
15/16: Paul Linehan bt John Abrahamse 3-0

Women's A:
Final: Claire O'Brien bt Jody Hannon 3-0.

ILTB Nationals:
Liam Kenny and Madeline Perry resumed usual service at the ILTB Irish Nationals.

21st. World Men's Team Championships 2007:
The Irish Men's Team of Liam Kenny, John Rooney, Derek Ryan and Arthur Gaskin finished in 12th. position, a significant improvement on last time out and the results can be found on the Senior Teams page.

Key Mortgages Ulster Senior Open 2007:
Men's Final: Niall Rooney bt Rory Byrne 3-0
3/4: Steve Richardson bt Nick Staunton 3-2
5/6: Peter Emmanuel bt Rob Staunton 3-1
7/8: Neal Murphy bt Paul Linehan 3-1
9/10: David Ayerst bt Neil Martin 3-1
11/12: Jeremy Hastings bt Ben Craig 3-0
13: Michael Ross

Women's Final: Tanya Owens bt Zoe Barr 3-0
3/4: Sarah McCracken bt Nan Levy 3-2
5/6: Cathryn Abernethy bt Cheryl Ennis 3-0
7/8: Niamh O’Hare bt Sandra Holmes W/O

SL Controls Connacht Senior Open 2007:
Congrats to Keith Moran and the team in Sligo for their organisation of another successful event.

Men's A Results:
1/2  Derek Ryan bt Rory Byrne 3-1
3/4  Niall Rooney bt Peter Emmanuelle 3-0
5/6  Nick Staunton bt Rob Staunton 3-1
7/8  Brian Byrne bt Keith Moran 3-2.

Bymac Leinster Senior Open 2007: Noom and Gloom for Mylotte in Final

Ireland's Laura Mylotte will be disapponted with the outcome of the Bymac Leinster Squash Open having missed out on a glorious chance to capture her second tour title, losing a tight final to top seed Orla Noom, three games to one. A tense first game saw the girls trading shots and tussling for position in the centre of the court. At 5 points a piece Mylotte took the initiative with some great driving and closed out the game 9-6. Looking relaxed and in fine form Mylotte raced to a six nil lead in the second game and seemed to have the beating of her Dutch opponent. A string of unforced errors however let Noom back into the game and although Mylotte had a game ball at 9/8, Noom clinched it 10/9 to tie the match at one all. Again in the third Mylotte looked in control at 6/4 but could not seem to keep out the errors, losing the third 9-6. Noom then sensed her chance of victory and played some great squash to close out the fourth and final game 9-6 and with take the title at Fitzwilliam

Bradley has a Ball in Dublin

Bradley Ball took the Bymac Leinster Squash Open Title in Dublin after a 3/1 victory over Egypt's Omar Abdel Aziz. The Fitzwilliam crowd were treated to a hugely entertaining final with little or no mistakes by either player. Ball was dominant in the opening game taking it 11/4 but the Egyptian found his rhythm to take a very close second set 13/11. The pace of the match didn't drop throughout the course of the 78 minute final and in the third set with both players under pressure Ball proved the stronger taking it 11/5.
Aziz came out in the fourth set determined to take Ball the full distance and had two game balls at 10/8. However two well worked rallies from the Englishman saw him level the score at 10/10 and seeing his opponent tire went on to take the game 12/10 and with it the title. leinster squash president colm andrews and simon byrne of bymac

In the Men's A section veteran Derek Ryan recovered from the disappointment of failing to qualify for the professional event by beating Arthur Gaskin. Gaskin raced into a two set lead but Ryan called on all his experience to claw himself back into the match. Having changed the pace of the game and taking the match to a fifth set Ryan's class proved too much for the Carlow man. Gaskin will rue the missed chance to finally beat the eight times Irish National Champion Derek Ryan and will now until the Irish National Championships in December for another chance.

Women's Professional Final (1) Orla Noom (Ned) bt (2) Laura Mylotte (Irl) 3/1 (6/9, 10/9, 9/6, 9/6) 60 minutes Women's Semi-final results (1) Orla Noom (Ned) bt Sarah Jane Perry (Eng) 3/0 (9/0, 9/6, 9/5) (2) Laura Mylotte (Irl) bt Vicky Hynes 3/0 (9/4, 9/0, 9/6) Women's A Section Results Final Tanya Owens bt Jenny Dillon 3/0 Semi-finals Tanya Owens bt Roisin Brennan 3/0 Jenny Dillon bt Katie Wilson 3/2

Munster Senior Open 2007:
The results and pics for this competition (John Rooney and Kerri Shields taking the titles) can be found on the Munster Squash Site.

Information on the ILTB Senior Tour 2007 - 2008.

The Irish Senior Tour incorporates 8 events. These are spread throughout Ireland as described in the Irish Squash Calendar. Ranking points for Irish selection will be available only from the Tour. Home-based Irish players will gain points from their best events as per the divisors outlined below. For PSA and WISPA ranked players and non-Irish based players a multiplier will be applied to points gained and they will therefore have more choice in which events they play.

The prize money listed below is the minimum required to take part in the Tour. Tournament Organisers may pay above this figure if they so wish. The prize money is available for Irish players ONLY.

ILTB Senior Tours, Prize fund and events:

Prize Monies for each Event

• Prize monies must be paid to the top 6 placed Irish players in each GP event. Tournament Organisers may pay non- Irish players but only after the top 6 placed Irish players are paid.
• There are two sets of minimum required prize monies to be paid out depending on the number of people in the draw:
• All men's events will be 16 draw and with the exception of the Nationals which will be 16 draw all women's events will be 8 draw.

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Men's National Ranking System and Selection:
For the 2007/2008 season the Men’s Tour will consist of 8 events. Rankings are based on performance in the tour events over a rolling 12 months, with the number of events that are taken into consideration dependent on the type of player. To ensure all players have an equal chance, weightings (multipliers) will be applied to points gained. The Irish Nationals is a compulsory event for all players.

Player 1: Top 70 Professional.
Player will be given an automatic Irish ranking based on their PSA ranking, provided they are within the top 70 on the PSA list on September 1st 2007. Players must play in the Nationals.

Player 2: Professional 71 –200
Best results from 35% of events played within the last calendar year, equating to 3 events. A multiplier will be applied - provided they are ranked between 71 an 200 on the PSA list on September 1st 2007

Player 3: Irish player resident overseas
Best results from 50% of events played within the last calendar year, equating to 4 events. A multiplier will be applied.

Player 4: Irish resident player
Best results from 65% of events played within the last calendar year, equating to 5 events. No multiplier will be applied.

Player 4 is used as the standard for determining the multiplier for other player types. Where there are 8 events the top 5 scoring events (65%) will be added together for an Irish resident player. The maximum points achievable is 4000 (1000 for the Nationals and 750 in four other tournaments).

The maximum unweighted points achievable for Player 2 is 2500 (1000 for the Nationals and 750 in two other tournaments). Using the Player 4 score as the baseline, the Multiplier for Player 2 is calculated as 4000/2500 = 1.6.

Similarly, the Multiplier for Player 1 is 4.0 and for Player 3 is 1.23.

Criteria for Irish Men’s Team selection
Selection is based on the highest ranked players available based on the rules above. The Selection Committee (currently Senior Convenor, Ed Dunne; Coach Eoin Ryan and David Ayerst) reserves the right, in exceptional circumstances, to seek Council approval to select an alternative player to replace one player selected based on ranking. Selection for the World teams will be based on the rankings as at October 23rd 2007 rankings and the Europeans in 2008 will be based on the rankings as at March 26th 2008.

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Women’s National Ranking System and Selection
For the 2007/2008 seasons the Women’s Tour will consist of 8 events. Rankings are based on performance in the tour events over a rolling 12 months, with the number of events that are taken into consideration dependent on the type of player. The Irish Nationals is a compulsory event for all players.

Player 1: Top 60 Professional.
Player will be given an automatic Irish ranking based on their WISPA ranking, provided they are within the top 60 on the WISPA list on the September 1st, 2007. Players must play in the Nationals.

Player 2: Irish player
Best results from 50% of events played within the last calendar year, equating to 4 events. No multiplier will be applied. Irish Nationals and West of Ireland Open are both mandatory

Criteria for Irish Team selection:
Selection is based on the highest ranked players available based on the rules above. The Section Committee (Currently Senior Convenor, Ed Dunne; Coach Elvy DaCosta and Michele Jackson) reserves the right, in exceptional circumstances, to seek Council approval to select an alternative player to replace one player selected based on ranking. Selection for the Europeans in 2008 will be based on the rankings as at March 26th 2008.

Selection will be based on the points earned from The Irish Nationals and The West of Ireland Open plus their best result from either the Munster or Mount Pleasant Open (Note change from Belfast Open). These 4 events are also compulsory tournaments.

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Grand Prix Points
The Grand prix is a straight race with no multipliers with the winner determined at the end of the season. Therefore for the grand prix the more events you play the better position you will achieve. Positions will be updated on the 1st of each month

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