28-Sep-06:
New PSL Season Welcomes Three New Clubs
The new season of the Premier Squash League (PSL) will get underway on
Tuesday 3rd October, with three clubs making their debut in the 24th
season of the sport's longest-established national league.
Esporta Oxford will join defending champions Benz-Bavarian
Duffield, from Derbyshire; league stalwarts Nottingham; Birmingham
University; and Yorkshire club Pontefract in Group A. Fellow newcomers
Probuild Bristol and Luxfords St George’s Hill, from
Surrey, will compete in Group B alongside Tinos Homes Chichester,
UniSport Guildford and Croydon's Surrey Health & Racquets.
Led by Australia's Berkshire-based world No24 Cameron Pilley, Esporta
Oxford – also featuring two Oxfordshire-based players, former British
national champion Mark Cairns and Scott Handley - visit Birmingham
University for their opening PSL fixture. Rapidly improving
Englishman Joey Barrington, from Somerset, will lead Birmingham
University for the second season.
Londoner Adrian Grant, the Halifax-based world No17, will spearhead
the Probuild Bristol attack, supported by Australian Joseph Kneipp,
the world No32, and Welshman David Evans, the former British Open
champion. The west country team will make its debut on Tuesday 24th
October, hosting fellow PSL newcomers
Luxfords St George’s Hill.
The Surrey club squad boasts a notable international flavour, with
Dutchman Laurens Jan Anjema, the world No22, leading the men's attack,
backed by Frenchman Renan Lavigne and Egyptian Hisham Mohd Ashour.
After a distinguished and unbeaten four-season run for former league
club Edgbaston Priory, Australia's record five-times world champion
Sarah Fitz-Gerald makes her return to the PSL with Luxfords St
George's Hill – and will appear in the club's first home
fixture against Surrey Health & Racquets.
Preview from Danny Lee
Despite his retirement from the international circuit this month,
Peter Nicol will again represent the Croydon club in the new PSL
season. Australia's world No5 Anthony Ricketts will lead the Surrey
Health & Racquets attack for the first time, in tandem with Malaysia's
world champion Nicol David.
Title-holders Benz-Bavarian Duffield will again be led by
British national champions Nick Matthew and Tania Bailey. Matthew was
cheered to success by supporters of his East Midlands club in
Nottingham earlier this month when he became the first home grown
Englishman to win the British Open crown since 1939!
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Round One,
Tue 03 Oct:
GROUP A:
Pontefract v Nottingham
Birmingham University v
Esporta Oxford
GROUP B:
Tinos Homes Chichester v
UniSport Guildford
Luxfords St George’s Hill v
Surrey Health & Racquets Croydon
PSL Debut for St George's Hill
Match preview and details ... |
2005-06 Champions Duffield
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