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English Racketlon Championships 2010 - Results & Report
Images - Facebook event (Video not available for this event) Full Results Spreadsheet - English Championships Results Next event - Hampshire Racketlon Open Results Summary (Report Further Below) Mens Elite (A) Winner: Jermaine Manners, Runner-up: Ed Batson, Third: Simon Whale
Mens Advanced (B1) Winner: Duncan Stahl, Runner-up: Selwyn Walmsey, Third: Matthew Lampard
Mens Advanced (B2) Winner: David Westmoreland, Runner-up: Chris McKee, Third: Richard Boreham
Mens Amateur (C1) Winner: Simon Williams, Runner-up: Adam Gross, Third: Dinal Shah
Mens Beginner (C2)
Winner: Sarah Lochrie, Runner-up: Gemma Sgariglia, Third: Fiona Sime
Winner: Dominique Ford, Runner-up: Maureen Thompson, Third: Michelle Eaton
Winner: Eugene Daley, Runner-up: Josh Marsh, Third: Prashan Clare, Fourth: Elise Lazarus
Mens Seniors Over 45 Winner: Dave Lazarus, Runner-up: Andy Russell, Third: Rakesh Gupta
Winner: Ken Tunstell, Runner-up: Ken Anderson, Third: Charles Eaton
Winner: David Westmoreland & Patrick Cooney, Runner-up: Tom Whitehouse & Gary Tovey, Third: Rob Sampson & Russell Hayes
Winners: Ashley Stokes & Vidal Graham, Runners-up: Daniel Gillett & Kevin Constantine, Third: Nick Goodchild & Michael Parker
Ladies Doubles (A) Winner: Dianne Baker & Carol Whittington, Runner-up: Fiona Sime & Dominique Ford No Photo! Mixed Elite Doubles (A) Winner: Fiona Sime & Ray Jordan, Runner-up: Dominique Ford & Keith Lesser, Third: Sarah Lochrie & Wayne Donaldson
English Championships - The best ever Following a couple of months of rest and recuperation, the English Racketlon Association resumed business last weekend with The Totallysporty.com English Racketlon Championships 2010. This year the championships were held at our premier London location, Redbridge Sports Centre with a total of 95 singles entries and 16 doubles pairs. Two days later, English Champions were crowned in 13 different categories including, for the first time, Under 14s and Ladies doubles. The tournament took the mantle of biggest and best ever non-world ranking tournament in the UK. English Championships Report The Mens A category was strongly contested – including 5 out of the top 6 ranked players. Jermaine Manners retained his Mens A title (and the £100 cash prize to boot). Manners beat 2nd placed British Champion Ed Batson in the final (59-50). Batson making do with £50, as the English Championships introduced prize money for the first time. Manners beat Jeremy Krzystyniak in the semis - Jeremy just losing out to Simon Whale in the 3rd/4th place play off. Stahl to play Mens A Mens B (like Mens C) was split into two categories of 12 each to ensure matches could be completed in one day. Mens B-1 was won by Duncan Stahl over Selwyn Walmsley who made a welcome return to the racketlon community. Duncan is now destined to compete in the elite category in the future. Matthew Lampard took third place in the Mens B-1, winning 64-51 over UK ranked number 17 Mark Johnson. Mens B-2 included a mix of Racketlon regulars and new recruits and was won by David Westmoreland in his debut tournament, beating Chris McKee 70-60 in the final. Richard Boreham took third place over Julian Haste. Hard work for racketlon blogger comes off Mens C-1 and C-2 categories were disrupted on Sunday by a number of withdrawals, taxing the tournament organisers to come up with a scenario allowing all players at least three matches. Mens C-1 was won by Simon Williams (racketlon's most famous blogger) with a narrow 3 point win over Adam Gross. Dinal Shah beat Howard Clare 57-48 to get onto the podium. The Mens C-2 category was comprised of Racketlon first timers. Thankfully the rules were clearly understood by all and the title was taken by Tom Crompton who beat Velesh Ghedia 62-44. Brijesh Ghedia also got a debut medal by taking third place. Lochrie wins the first of many Reigning Ladies Champion Jane Cook was unable to defend her title and this was grabbed by Sarah Lochrie who beat British Champion Gemma Sgariglia in the final. Sarah was clearly in a hurry to get to her friends Hen Party that evening winning her first match before the tennis and going into tennis on her final two matches +16 and +21. UK ranked number 3, Fiona Sime, took third place over Dianne Baker (ranked 5) 64-48. Tournament Director Dominique Ford took the Ladies B title winning all three of her matches before the tennis (luckily!) Maureen Thompson took second place and Michelle Eaton beat Jan McCall to take third place. Daley - king of the juniors For the first time, the English Championships was able to run a small junior event which was won by 12 year old Eugene Daley who won all of his three matches. Josh Marsh took second place and Prashan Clare just beat the youngest competitor – 9 year old Elise Lazarus – to third place. Elise won all of her squash sets against her older male competitors to a loss of only 10 points in total. Watch out ladies in the not too distant future! Can anyone touch Lazarus? The Mens Over 45’s title was retained by Dave Lazarus in a strongly contested field, beating Andy Russell in the final. Rakesh Gupta took the third place over Stuart Farrar who had to unfortunately retire due to injury. The Over 55’s also saw an injury withdrawal (Roman Szwaba) but the title was taken by Ken Tunstall, beating Ken Anderson (2nd) and Charles Eaton (3rd) in the process. Doubles take centre stage Dianne Baker and Carol Whittington beat Fiona Sime and Dominique Ford to become the inaugural Ladies Doubles champions. Hopefully this category can develop over the coming tournaments. Great organisation |
