WELSH CLOSED POST FEB2013 - Squash Wales

MAKIN AND HARLOW ARE CHAMPIONS OF NORTH
Words by Damian Burgess 10.2.2013
On the weekend of the 8 th – 10 th February 2013 squash players from 8 years old to 78 years old
were competing at squash events, in South Wales the Bourse Welsh Masters Championships
kicked off at Newport Squash Club with over 110 entries and in North Wales over 60 juniors
travelled to Saints Squash and Fitness for the Metalmin North Wales Junior Open 2013.
Juniors came from all over Wales
to the compulsory event at the
Saints Squash and Fitness, from
Under11 to Under19 girls and
boys were all competing from
Saturday morning at 9am until
just after 6pm on Sunday evening.
In the boys Under11 Owen Hayes
of Rhiwbina Squash club came out
victorius against Ben Hughes in
the final, also competing were
Ryan Lewis and Max Miles Owen.
In the Girls Under11/13 Katies
Jones of Newport Squash Club
came out on top in her final
against Kate Workman, also
competing were Eleri Rowlands,
Bethan Gammon, Layna Beattie
and Emily Jones.
In the boys Under13 event Srikar Mummidi from Camarthen beat Lewis Clements to win
another title at Under13 age category, also in the event was Lewis Poole, Keiran Hillman and
Harri Pugh.
In the Girls Under15/17 Lauren Williams won the event beating Sophie Alderman in the Final,
also competing were Georgia Jones, Ciara Richards and Lianne Kierney. In the boys Under15
event Josh Lee played a great game to beat Liam Eason in the final, Jordan Williams and Joe
Rhys Curtis were beaten semi finalists.
In the boys Under17 event Emyr Evans won the event without dropping a single game and
beating Joe Cornwall in the final, Liam Jones and George Thomas were beaten semi finalists in
this event.

In the girls Under19 event there were 4 players with playing each other in a round robin group,
three players were tied for 1 st in Elin Harlow, Fiona Murphy and Jenny Haley; on points count
back Elin Harlow came out as the Champion. In the boys Under19 event Joel Makin won the
event without dropping a game beating Owain Taylor in the final that lasted over 40 minutes.
After the match Joel Makin said “Thank
you to the club, the sponsors and
tournament staff for all the hard work
all weekend, the players and of course
parents for coming to North Wales
from wherever you live. Also I would
like to take the opportunity for us to
stop and think about Harry Faulkner
and his family after Harry tragically
died playing squash on Thursday
evening, there are charities out there
that offer screening to young adults
and it is worth looking at”
Thank you all for a great weekend of
squash, over 400 viewers came online to
view the squash from North Wales, we
hope you managed to watch some of
the streaming of you were not lucky
enough to be at the club.
A big thank you to Metalmin our sponsor for the event, Mark Davies, a keen squash player and
director of Metalmin was around all day Sunday to present trophies to all the winners and
runners up.
Words From Damian Burgess Wales Squash and Racketball Press Officer