Windsor Domination

      Ok, maybe not domination.  However, Windsor was a very strong presence in the Silver Grand Prix Finale at the National Squash Academy this weekend.  To participate in this tournament you had to be among the top 16 point earners throughout the season in the Silver tournaments.  Sporting their new Windsor Squash clothing, Windsor made its presence felt and took home 5 medals.      
      Hannah Guthrie won the Girls U15 draw, losing only 1 game in the process.  In the finals, she defeated the number one seed in the draw, a girl who she lost to in a previous silver.  Adopted Windsorite, Riley Bore (from Sarnia but plays in Windsor a fair bit), won the very tough Boys U15 draw.  Despite the tough competition, Riley remained steady, making few errors.
      Aaron Nagy had a very tough semi-final match and his shot-making was put to the test as his opponent ran down everything short of a nick.  In this case, retrieving surpassed shot-making sending Aaron to the 3/4 match in which he won handily.

Aaron and Usman

      Always entertaining Usman Khan seemed to be in a battle in every match he played.  All the way through to the finals he was able to pull out the close games.  However, in the finals his energy level was matched by his opponent and Usman won 2nd place in the Boys U13 draw.

Hannah, Aaron, Riley, Vishaal

      In possibly the tightest match of the weekend, Vishaal Mehta, went down 8-1 in the first game of the finals only to fight back and tie it up at game ball.  However, he just couldn't pull out the game.  Game 2 was a much closer game and again it went down to the wire with both players hitting great shots.  In the end, Vishaal just couldn't get the critical points and ended up in 2nd place in the Boys U11 draw.

   Phil Dimitrov suffered a momentary lapse in Game 1 of his first match, allowing his opponent back in after dominating the first 10 points.  Phil couldn't get the momentum back and was relegated to the consolation side of the draw.  Some thought he did that on purpose so he could have more time watching Diego Elias (world junior #1, world rank #47) train??????
      A comment that was made to me as we were leaving the event was that "Windsor came and took home all the hardware."

Aaron and Diego

Silver Tournament in London

     On Saturday, a number of our juniors travelled to London to compete in the next stop in the Silver Series.  The Silver events are meant for players that aren't necessarily ready for the Gold events but moving beyond the Gary Waite events.  Also, participation in this event stops at players who are older than 15.  Windsor found great success today.  Aaron Nagy won the U15 division and Aparna Maheshwarhi won the U13 division.  Also, Hannah Guthrie, Vishaal Mehta and Ananya Maheshwarhi were second in their respective divisions.  Phil Dimitrov won the consolation over all people..... but Luca Dalla Bona.  It seems like these two have met in the last 10 tournaments!  Way to represent Windsor!!

Photos of the event can be found here