Thursday’s penultimate round of the GrowthPoint Jarvis/Kaplan Cup Interprovincial Squash Championships being played in Pretoria didn't provide too many surprises as the top teams consolidated their positions in the various sections.
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Showing no effects of three plane flights since Sunday evening in order to sort out a visa, the world's 12th-ranked Paul Col was in fine form at the GrowthPoint Jarvis/Kaplan Cups interprovincial Squash Championship played in Pretoria this week.
The South African Country Districts men’s and women’s A squash teams, with Karim Gawad and Lauren Siddall at the helm, continued their complete dominance of the GrowthPoint Jarvis and Kaplan Cups in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Newly promoted to the Jarvis A Section, Midlands and SACD A (with world champion Karim Gawad at the helm) provided the fireworks on the first day of the GrowthPoint Jarvis/Kaplan Cups interprovincial squash championships being played in Pretoria.
Western Province players, Gary Wheadon and Milnay Louw, lifted the prestigious GrowthPoint national titles when the finals were played on the all-glass court at the Wanderers Squash Club, Johannesburg, at the weekend.
North West’s Christo Potgieter squeezed in a double triumph at the Tswalu SA National Doubles Championship played at Johannesburg Country Club at the weekend, when he won the men’s doubles title with JP Brits and the mixed doubles with last year’s national individual champion, Milnay Louw.
Finals day of the 2016 WSF World Masters Championships saw 19 champions crowned in Johannesburg.
South Africa could walk away with nine gold medals, there are two silver medals already assured (and another six should the South African finalists not win gold) and a possible 10 bronze medals when the 2016 World Masters Squash Championships finish on Friday at the Wanderers and Parkview complexes.
The pace is hotting up in the 2016 World Masters Squash Championships hosted at three Johannesburg venues – Wanderers, Parkview, Country Club – as the draws advance to the quarter-finals and semi-finals.
Defending champion Steve Coppinger and second seed Milnay Louw walked off with the trophies in the finals of the SA National Squash Championships at Wanderers Squash Club on Friday evening.