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Senior Mens Worlds 2011

Day Three - Tournament Favourties, England came out on top of the final pool game for Ireland at the Worlds yesterday defeating Ireland 3-0. Full Report here
1. Arthur Gaskin lost to Nick Matthew 9-11 6-11 4-11
2. Steve Richardson lost to Peter Barker 3-11 3-11 2-11
3. Conor O'Hare lost to Daryl Selby 3-11 4-11 2-11

Day Two - Ireland lost 2-1 to a strong Spanish side today led by Borja Golan (World No.34) who is previous winner of the Irish Open. Final Result and full report here
1. Arthur Gaskin lost Borja Golan 2-11 1-11 5-11
2. Derek Ryan beat Alejandro Garbi Caro 5-11 11-7 11-9 11-6
3. Steve Richardson lost David Vidal 5-11 5-11 4-11

Day One - Senior Mens Worlds got underway in Paderborn, Germany at the weekend. Ireland came very close to spoiling the party for the home nation in their opening game by almost beating Germany in the opening match of The World Men's Team Squash Championships. Full Report from Team Manager Ed Dunne can be viewed here.

Final Match Result - Ireland 1 Germany 2

1. Arthur Gaskin lost to Simon Rosner 5-11 2-11 8-11
2. Derek Ryan beat Jens Schoor 11-8 11-6 11-8
3. Stevie Richardson lost to Andre Haschker 9-11 12-14 8-11

July 2011 - Arthur Gaskin wins Berkhamsted PSA Closed Satellite
Congratulations to Arthur Gaskin who is Berkhamsted's first PSA champion, beating Chris Fuller in a marathon final 3/2.
On his way to the final Arthur beat Nathan Lake in the semis in a match that took 1 hour and 30 mins before taking an incredible 1 hour 45 mins against Chris Fuller in the final. Arthur is playing extremely well at the moment and this is marvellous training for him for the upcoming Mens Worlds in August.

Senior Mens Worlds Team Announced -The Senior Mens Team to take part in upcoming Worlds in Paderborn, Germany from August 21st - 27th has been announced as follows:

1. Arthur Gaskin
2. Derek Ryan
3. Stevie Richardson
4. Conor O Hare

Work is also being carried out on integrating new players to the Squad for future development. National Coach, Hadrian Stiff commented

"The senior National squads now incorporate the youth potential. For me this is the beginning of re-vitalizing the National team with more young players. The next squad for the senior team for the worlds is 13/14th August. Conor O'shea, Sean Conroy, Theo Anderson, Rory Birtwhistle and Stuart Hadden will Join Arthur, Derek, Steve and Conor for their World team preparation. In addition, local players with join the training to compete and spar with the team.

I will be running Monthly squads for the top Irish juniors starting in September. This will help Me find potential senior players and ensure that improvements are made to build more good young players. More information on this will follow shortly".

Euro 2011- Ireland finished 5th overall in Divison 2 defeating Switerland in their final game 3/1. Full report from Hadrian Stiff on Euro 2011 can be viewed here.

Senior Mens National Team Announced - The Senior Mens National Team was annouced today for the upcoming Europeans as follows:

1. Arthur Gaskin
2. Derek Ryan
3. Stevie Richardson
4. Graeme Stewart

Reserve Conor O’Hare

Congratulations to all and we look forward to a strong performance in Finland in April.

Irish Senior Mens Coach - Simon Parke has stepped down as Men's Senior coach with Hadrian Stiff taking over duties. To view more details click here. Hadrian will be at the Irish Senior Nationals to meet and great. Irish Squash welcomes Hadrain and we wish him every success with his upcoming ventures.

Development Squad – December 4th, 5th

Despite the adverse weather conditions this weekend saw the first combined Development and National Squad training session taken by Hadrian Stiff and Paul Bell in Dublin.

Players travelled from The UK, Waterford and Galway to attend the squad and were put through their paces on Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday:

“…The purpose of the Saturday morning session was to demonstrate and teach timing of movement to and from the back corners. Good movement timing brings more control of the ball and the rally… The main area of note was for all players to practice and use more variation of pace from pressure situations. This will help gain more control of the rally and create more attacking opportunities…” Hadrian explained to the players.

National Team Captain Derek Ryan who celebrates his 41 Birthday this month was very quick to express his thoughts after the weekend “…This is the second squad I've done with Hadrian and I found it very helpful. There is real purpose to the content and structure of the training…I think the likes of Sean Conroy, Theo Anderson, Conor O’Shea, etc will gain hugely from his ideas and experience…”

Conor O’Shea was glad he made the journey from Galway “…Coming away from the sessions it felt great to have come up from Galway to benefit from both Paul and Hadrian’s coaching skills. I also came away with some good points and drills to do back home and I am really looking forward to the next squad and the Nationals…”

Hadrian and Paul will be at The Senior National’s later this month watching the top players in action and building player profiles, they will also be attending junior events over the next few months with a view of building future National Squads.

The Development Squad is made up of players who show potential, commitment to playing squash and are willing to work hard, if you wish to improve your game and train with some of the top players in the country with a top level coach please contact Irish Squash on info@irishsquash.com

Below photo featuring Shorybagy brothers from recent squad sesssion in February 2011