Wednesday produced two sets of contrasting quarter finals. Andrew Martin and Kelvin Ndhlovu produced relatively straight forward straight game victories over Nell van der Merwe and Tristan Eysele respectively. Rodney Durbach was looking comfortable at two games up against Ray Simbule. Ray then dug in and the match became quite fractious with lots of nip and tuck as Ray forced a deciding game. In the end a tight match was ultimately decided by the more experienced Durbach holding his nerve in the vital deciding points. Jimmy Schlebusch produced the only upset of the quarters in a fast and physical encounter against J P Brits. J P started at a tremendous pace and put Jimmy under early pressure but unforced errors kept Jimmy in the match. In the end this was ultimately what led to J P’s downfall in an exciting encounter for the spectators to watch.
Today sees the semi-finals of the two main draws and the plate draws. Milnay Louw will take on Megan Page at 18:00 before the two Landman sisters do battle at 18:30. The first mens semifinal sees Rodney Durbach against Andrew Martin at 19:00 before Kelvin Ndhlovu and Jimmy Schlebusch do battle at 19:45.
Plate semi finals will see Sonica Fritz vs Bongi Seroto at 18:00 followed by Bronwen Doeg vs Hannelize Human at 18:30.
Mens plate semi’s see COnrad van der Merwe vs Sheldon Erasmus and Henning Holtzhausen vs Jarryd Wood.
Northerns Open Womens Draw 2015
The top mens and womens seed took their duly appointed places in the quarter and semi-finals respectively without too many concerns. Match of the day was however the tight and tense five game battle between Tristan Eysele, recent quarter finalist at the Nationals and the young Lawrence Kuhn. Tristan’s experience of playing on the PSA tour eventually counted as he managed to squeeze out a win in five games. Mens quarter finals take place on Wednesday before the mens and ladies semi-finals take place on Thursday. Matches to start at PCC at 18:00.Northerns Open 2015
Draws for the 2015 Northerns Open taking place at the Pretoria Country Club Courts from Monday 15th June to Friday 19th June. Northerns Open 2015
Herewith the link to Centurion Junior Squash first ever online entry form. http://cjsquash.co.za/tournaments/2015-cjs-pre-ipt-open/
The CJS Pre IPT Tournament will be held weekend 5-7 June 2015 at Uitsig Squash Courts in Rooihuiskraal. Closing date for entries 28 May 2015. All entries to be done online. Conditions of entry for CJS Pre Ipt Junior Open available on our webpage (Tournaments) just follow the link provided above.
Please note that this is a open, graded event. Provincial players, school league players as well as beginners welcome.
Entries have opened for the Northerns Open Squash tournament that takes place from 15 – 19 June at the Pretoria Country Club.
Enter online at this link. Entries close on 8 June 2015.
The NJSA Closed tournament produced some outstanding squash this past weekend. There were 128 entries and the tournament was a big success. Congratulations to all who participated. Here are the winners and runners-up in each age group. The full results can be downloaded by clicking on the link at the bottom of the post.
- Bu19: Nico Ras, Cuan Verhage
- Gu19: Amy Mentz, Nothando Ntimane
- Bu16: Mikael Clayton, Blaine Verhage
- Gu16: Helena Coetzee, Bronwyn Doeg
- Bu14: Joha van der Merwe, Reece Mclachlan
- Gu14: Kaylee Hunt, Sune Blignaut
- Bu13: Damian Groenewald, Brett Mclachlan
- Gu13: Valme Webster, Jeanemie Vorster
- Bu11: Luhann Groenewald, Hubert van Eck
- Gu11: Awande Malinga, Anja van der Merwe
Results of the NSA closed Final round. Some fantastic matches were played including a memorable play-off for 9th place won by Johan Fourie against Peter Beukes, 14/12 in the fifth.
The ladies final was another exciting contest and resulted in a new champion after Makgosi Peloakgosi triumphed in a titanic five game battle against Hannelize Human. Kelvin Ndhlovu gave a masterclass of fast, controlled squash to claim his eighth consecutive men’s title.
The draw for this weekend’s NJSA Closed tournament has been published on the tournament page.
1. Under 11 and 13 boys and girls will play all their matches on Friday and Saturday at St Mary’s DSG. Sunday all matches will be played at Pretoria Country Club (PCC).
2. Under 14 – 19 boys and girls will play all matches from Friday to Sunday at PCC.
3. NB if you are playing the 2nd match of the day, e.g. 8h30 on Saturday morning, you have to be there to mark and ref the 1st match!!
4. ALL players are to ensure that they are at the courts and ready to play ONE HOUR before the scheduled time of their match. Players who arrive later than 15 minutes after the scheduled time of play run the risk of conceding the match. A FOLLOW-on system of times will apply and players will be expected to go onto court IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE MATCH PRIOR TO THEIRS is completed. This can also mean that your match might be later than scheduled. The time published on the draws are therefore only a guide and players are expected to go onto court immediately after the match preceding theirs is completed.
5. As this is a ranking tournament the draws might change in case of withdrawals. Please check your emails and the website regularly. The draws put up at the courts are to be followed once the tournament has started.
There will be ‘boeries’ and bacon rolls for sale on Sunday!
Please enjoy the tournament and see you all over the weekend!
Squash SA is requiring that all squash players register with them. Details of the need to register are available at squashsa.co.za but players can proceed with registration by clicking on the following link:
https://sport80.com/platform/register
Please note that registration is compulsory for all players playing in the Northerns Closed tournament.
Eight teams of Northerns junior squash players travelled to Bloemfontein for the past long weekend to play in the annual SA Country Schools Festival. Northerns teams participate to help develop players for the future and to give the Country Districts teams some additional competition.
The team results were as follows:
- Boys u/19A – 1st
- Boys u19/B – 2nd
- Boys u16B – 1st
- Girls u16 – 6th & 9th (2 teams)
- Boys u14 – 4th
- Boys u13 – A-team 7th and B-team 12th
