Busy Junior Weekend

Ryan and Niki warming up on the
all glass court

   

      For many of our juniors this was a big weekend.  This was our second opportunity at competing at a Gold level event.  This weekend also gave some of our newer juniors another opportunity to get some tournament experience in at the fourth stop on the Gary Waite Tour.   For some diehards, they did both!


Dunlop Gold #4 

    The National Squash Academy (NSA) in Toronto hosted the 4th Gold event of the season.  After our event in November, many juniors we looking forward to once again testing their skills against Ontario's best.  17 of our juniors participated and represented Windsor Squash and Fitness in great fashion.  Day 1 saw only Berto and David Mill move on in the main round.  Day 2 was full of many great and close matches.  It was evident that WSF juniors have greatly improved, we were just lacking a shot here and there to take many of the matches.
     The following juniors took part in this event; Niki Bistrev, Maxi Bistrev, Jagroop Bhangoo, Kabir Bhangoo, Luca Dalla Bona, Phil Dimitrov, Ryan Guthrie, Hannah Guthrie, Mackenzie Elliott, David Mill, Berto Mill, Sara Khan, Amin Khan, Ananya Maheshwari, Aparna Maheshwari, Vishal Mehta, and Aaron Nagy.  Complete results can be found here.  A special thanks to Graeme for bringing his whole family up to coach all the kids.  And thanks to all the juniors who were called upon to do some impromptu babysitting (Phil........).

Hannah and Mackenzie hanging with
#1 in Canada, Samantha Cornett

Pictures from this event can be found here.

Gary Tour #4

     As if two full days of squash wasn't enough, some players left the Gold event and went right to the Gary Waite stop in Waterloo. Others made the trip up from Windsor.  The results were quite opposite of the gold event where we struggled to win matches.  At this event, Windsor again dominated.   Aaron Nagy dominated the day winning the 14+ division with little difficulty.  Phil Dimitrov won the 11-13 division but not without some effort.  Phil encountered Luca Dalla Bona in the semi-finals in what has to be their 100th match against each other.  I think the series is tied 50-50.  Today Luca got into a hole early and wasn't able to respond to Phil's deadly drop shots.  It is very evident that our juniors are improving by leaps and bounds and will be competing with Ontario's best very soon.