The 16th Annual Friday 7th - Sunday 9th December 2012 Boston Squash and Racketball Club Rosebery Avenue, Boston, Lincs, PE21 7QR bostonsquash.co.uk, #BostonBSPA A BSPA Tour event Main sponsors Contents Picture special Contents 2 Chairman’s welcome 4 Top seeds 6 Previous winners 7 Last year 8/9/10 Women’s Finalists: Emma Beddoes and Tania Bailey Squash on the web 12 Men’s Finalists: Adrian Waller and Andy Whipp Tournament tweeting 13 Men’s draw 14/15 Women’s draw 16 BSPA history 18 BSPA tour 19 Semis: Sharpes v Whipp Semis: Waller retrieves Charlton’s drive World scene 20 Rules of squash 22/23 Club history 24 Stat attack 25/26 Picture special 27 Match action: Sharpes hits a backhand Match action: The earlier rounds A long match: Whipp beats Sharpes The 16th Annual BSPA Boston Open 2012 - Page 2 The 16th Annual BSPA Boston Open 2012 - Page 27 This year’s men’s number one seed, The average game Eddie Charlton, is making his 4th score in last year’s appearance at the Boston women’s pool Open, and has previously matches was 11/6 been both a 5/8 and 3/4 (or 11/5.7, to be seed. precise). Tim Garner is the only man to have won multiple Boston Opens on non- Rebecca Macree won the first consecutive occasions three Boston Open women’s (1999 and 2004). titles between 1997 and 1999. The feat has not been Likewise Tania Bailey (pictured achieved since, but Beddoes below with Andy Whipp) is the can change that this only woman to achieve this weekend. (2000, 2005, 2008 and 2009). Based on estimates, the 600th match of the Boston Open should be played in this - its sixteenth year (excluding the old over 35s event). 96 games were played during 27 matches of squash in one night, when a round of 64 was held on the Thursday evening of the 2006 Open. Matches were played across five courts for 5 1/2 hours. The 16th Annual BSPA Boston Open 2012 - Page 26 Chairman’s welcome Stat attack I would like to extend a warm Thanks are due to the ever present There have been welcome to all players, officials and helpers at the event, particularly twenty different The Open’s longest spectators to what is now the Paul Smith manning the bar, those winners of the BSPA match in the last two sixteenth annual Boston Open. preparing the food and Patrick Boston Open. Eleven years was 66 minutes Hildred for doing the programme. men and nine women long. James Snell beat Every year we are proud to remain have their names on the club’s Scott Handley 10/12, the longest running event on the 11/7, 9/11, 11/9, 11/7 in one of the Enjoy the tournament. honours board for the competition. prestigious BSPA tour. Our position 2010 semi finals. on the circuit has certainly helped us Mark Hildred to maintain the Open’s impetus, and Chairman In the male event last year, the I would like to thank Tim Garner for average semi final match time was his help in organising this weekend’s 47 minutes. event. This was twenty minutes longer than It is important that clubs such as ours the average match time of the men’s try to support professional squash in first round. Britain, and every year we welcome players who have made or who will The mean length of a make it to the top of our sport. As I men’s quarter final write, five of the world top ten match was 35 minutes. men’s players have played in this Boston SRC Committee 2012/13 This is Emma Beddoes’s 6th event, including four Englishmen. Mark Hildred (chairman) Boston Open appearance. Once again a host of excellent She could win her third Peter Tait (treasurer) Four of the world’s players will grace our courts – with consecutive title on Sunday. top 12 male players the women’s event attracting world Tom Kemp (secretary) (November 2012) #35 Emma Beddoes, and the men’s entered the Boston draw littered with some of the Paul Smith Open in 2001: James country’s best players - including top Patrick Hildred Willstrop (1), Peter seed and world #69 Eddie Charlton. Barker (6), Daryl Dave Parsons Selby (10) and As always this tournament could not Ady Proctor Alister Walker (12). go ahead without the support of local Jason Green businesses. I would like to take the Andy Mitchell opportunity to thank all the Graham Favell programme advertisers and in particular our main sponsor Moore John Payne Thompson who continue their long Adam Hildred involvement with the competition. The 16h Annual BSPA Boston Open 2012 - Page 4 The 16th Annual BSPA Boston Open 2012 - Page 25 Club history Boston Squash Club was founded in 1957 in the county, with good facilities and but play did not start until the first is often asked to host county events court was finished in February 1961. The and matches. second court was built in 1971 and the third added in 1976. The club is also very successful in local leagues, with the men’s team In 1978 two glass-backed courts were having dominated the Lincolnshire built, along with the club bar at first League over the past two decades. floor level overlooking the new courts. The club’s most recent league Finally the changing rooms on the successes were two years ago, when ground floor were added in 1982. the men’s first team won the In 1997 the club was successful in Lincolnshire Leagues Premier Division applying for National Lottery funding to by 2 points, and the second team won build three rainbow courts. This made Division 1, winning every single match the club the first one in England to in the process. receive national lottery funding for rainbow courts. With the rainbow courts came the first ever Boston Open, which Last season the over 35s team is now the longest running event on the finished runners-up in the National BSPA Tour. It is now only second to Club Championships. Grantham (six courts) as the largest club ES Produce Ltd 14 Seedlands Close, Boston, Lincs Email: [email protected] [email protected] Tel: 07764 357683 or 07879281281 Fax: 01205 357447 Pleased to support Boston Squash and Racketball Club. The 16th Annual BSPA Boston Open 2012 - Page 24 Top seeds opponent. 9. Freedom to play the ball Welcome to the 16th annual Boston 13/11 in the third to Adrian Grant. (ii) If the striker, on the way to playing the Open. We are again part of the BSPA Since then, Eddie has won three PSA ball incurs sufficient interference to After playing a ball, a player must make tour, remaining a cornerstone of the tour titles, including a recent double impede their access to the ball when the every effort to get out of the opponent’s circuit as the longest running event. in Australia. In the latter event down striker would have otherwise played a way. It is, of course, a pleasure to be a under, the Calbooture Open, Victoria good shot. part of the BSPA’s programme of Bell lost the women’s final 12/10 in (iii) If the Referee is asked to decide an That is: events. After the global bodies that the fifth. appeal and is unable to do so. (i) A player must make every effort to are the PSA and give the opponent a fair view of the ball, WSA, this is The familiar face (b) A Let shall be allowed: so that it may be sighted adequately for comfortably the of Scott Handley (i) If the Receiver is not ready, and does the purpose of playing it. biggest squash is second seed not attempt to take the service. (ii) If the ball breaks during play. circuit in (see previous (ii) A player must make every effort not (iii) If an otherwise good return has been England, and we programmes for a to interfere with, or crowd, the made, but the ball goes out on its first opponent in the latter’s attempt to get are one of only year-by-year bounce. to, or play, the ball. ten events on it. account of the (iv) If the ball in play touches the receiver former world or anything carried or worn by the We are pleased #41’s career). receiver whilst on the way to the side wall (iii) A player must make every effort to allow the opponent, as far as the latter’s to welcome back Scott will be or back wall in anticipation that the ball would have reached the front wall and position permits, freedom to play the last year’s ladies’ champion Emma hoping to go one better than his ball directly to the front wall, or to hence been a good return. Beddoes, who reached her highest runner-up finish here in 2006. either side wall. world ranking of #21 in June this 8. How strokes (points) can be won year. Sarah-Jane Perry steps up from The men’s 3/4 seeds are 21-year-old 10. Warm-Up 3/4 seed last year to #2 seed this Chris Fuller, and 27-year-old Mark A player wins a stroke: year, having reached an all-time high Fuller. Immediately preceding the start of play, of world #29 this month. At the age a) If the server fails to make a good serve (See point c on the Service). a period not exceeding five minutes shall of just 17 years old, Nada El Kalaawy 20-year-old Greg Lobban, who is the b) If the opponent fails to make a good be allowed on court for the purpose of of Egypt is already ranked within the second highest Scot in the world return of the ball in play.