Squash Tournament Results

The first weekend in July the University of Waterloo held a squash tournament that I participated in. It was great fun and I’ll definitely be signing up again in future terms.

The tournament was sponsored by Black Knight squash who allowed the participants to test out a variety of racquets during their matches. I tested the Magnum M140 and the C2C Red models (C2C Red isn’t listed on their website since it is so new). I enjoyed the C2C Red very much and played two matches with it. The Magnum has a very large head which I found a bit awkward to play with but is great for beginners since it has a very large sweet spot. Both racquets are way out of my price range though at around two hundred each.

In my first game I played a guy named Andrew and won: 9-5 6-9 7-9. It was a good match and a great start to the day. He was quite quick and was able to get to many shots I didn’t expect him to however he didn’t make very many winner shots and won a lot of points through my unforced errors.

My second game was against a guy named Wenjin who was a very strong intermediate player. I lost the match but maintain that it would have been a lot closer if my endurance was better: 7-9 10-8 9-4. He was also very fast and was able to make some great winner shots. Early in the last game we had a long rally which pushed me over the edge into exhaustion. I had nothing left and everything I was able to run down I put into the tin.

The last game of the day was against Walid who is new to the intermediate division so I won: 6-9 1-9 7-9. The last match was a best of five where the previous games were best of three. Winning this match put me in third place overall which I was pretty happy about. Wenjin came in second and another guy I didn’t play was first.

After testing out a racquet players filled out a survey and were then entered in a draw for a new racquet. At the end of the day Walid won the racquet which I figure was worth around eighty to one hundred dollars. I was a bit jealous since I badly needed that new racquet as anyone who has seen my current racquet can attest to. Since the tournament I’ve purchased a new Dunlop racquet which I love, expect a post with some pictures soon.

Next term I am going to be participating in the squash league at the intermediate level with that hope that by the winter term I can move up to advanced. I really need to work on my finesse game as that is where I am currently lacking. See you on the courts.