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The Sportheque Oktober Squash Fest took place October 21-23, and attracted 54 competitors, with a sizeable contingent from Montreal. In the Open event, Maxym Leclair won the 4 player round robin, losing only one game in his three matches. Fernando Hernandez placed 2nd by avenging his defeat by David Guest, in September’s ODSA Rust Remover event, in a thrilling 5…
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Squash Gloucester hosted the annual ODSA Rust Remover tournament (Sept. 28-29), which attracted 38 players, including two each from Kingston and Montreal, and the winner of the C-D Division, Lee Miller of Trenton. In the main event final, David Guest resumed his winning ways, with a 13-15, 11-6, 11-3, 6-11, 11-1 victory over Fernando Hernandez of Montreal’s Club Sportif MAA….
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The RA Summer Open (Aug. 23-25) attracted entries from 10 different clubs, including two in Kingston. In the “A” event, Nick James, new-comer to Ottawa from Vancouver, beat Stephane Lussier in 4 thoroughly entertaining games, 11-7, 11-7, 9-11, 11-4. Stephane had beaten Nicolas Dupont in five on Friday night, and then upset top seed David Guest in a come-from-behind 5 setter…
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From July 30th to August 5th, 755 players from 59 countries descended on the McArthur Squash Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA hosted the 2018 WSF World Masters Squash Championships. That included 7 players from the ODSA who made the trip to Virginia to take place in this bi-annual event. Results from our players are below as long as personal accounts…
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Greatly respected, both on and off the court, Steve Wren reached the pinnacle of his squash career when, on June 23, he was elected, by his peers across Canada to be President of Squash Canada, a position not filled from the Ottawa/Gatineau area, since the 1930s. Steve left his native New Zealand in 1986, to be a Squash Pro in…
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The OAC Summer Squash Splash event, held June 22 – 23, attracted 27 players in the A, B, and C Divisions, with winners being Matt Arkett (RA), Assad Khan (RA), and Jay Park (Goodlife QV – a newcomer from Vancouver) Division A Winner – Matt Arkett (RA Centre) Runner-Up – Stephen Rush (Goodlife Queensview) Semi-Finalist – Josh Renaud (OAC) Semi-Finalist…
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Stephanie Bazin, RA Squash Club, on being elected to the Board of Directors of Squash Ontario. She discovered squash at university in France, and started playing in Ottawa at the Rideau Tennis Club in the late 1990s. She has been active with Squash Ontario’s Masters Committee for 2 years, helping to organize tournaments and road trips, with the ODSA Women’s…
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The final tournament of this year’s ODSA winter season took place at Le Club Sportheque, between April 26 and 29, and attracted 60 players In the Men’s Open final, host pro Maxym Leclair coasted to a 11-3, 11-5, 11-6 victory over Maximilien Godbout, 2nd in the Quebe Boys Under 19 rankings, while David Guest avenged previous losses to Dominic Wren, with a…
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