Stringing report from the British Grand Prix

Ashaway are the official string of the British Grand Prix, this years event was run 20th-24th September at the national squash centre in Manchester. The event was televised in various countries worldwide and on PSATV Live on the Internet.

Nick Matthew was the eventual winner of the event, Nick uses Ashaway PowerNick 18 in his racket, congratulations to him.

Nick Down of www.smartracquet.co.uk was our official stringer at the event and his stringing report is below:

43 restrings:
2 x Supernick XL Micro (1 at 27lbs, 1 at 28lbs)
2 x Supernick XL Pro (both at 28lbs)
1 x Supernick XL (at 27lbs)
23 x Powernick 18 (4 at 25lbs, 15 at 26lbs, 4 at 28lbs)
4 x Powernick 19 (all 4 at 26lbs)
6 x Ultranick 17 (4 at 25lbs, 2 at 26lbs)
5 x Ultranick 18 (all at 25lbs)

Black Knight Ashaway exhibition Devon Style!

We ran a successful exhibition at the Devon & Exeter Squash club last week with David Palmer, Joel Hinds and several local Devonshire BK Ashaway heros:

Ashley Knight – BK Ashaway sponsored Head coach at the D&E club

Dave Palmer – The name sake, local stringer, county player and sponsored by BK Ashaway

 

Ashley gave a good account of himself against Joel Hinds and there was some ‘generous’ rallies in ‘the battle of David Palmers’ but the Australian version came out on top.

 

The pro players then played each other and Joel actually edged the game against David Palmer, with John White (John is not associated with BK Ashaway) winning the finale.

It was a packed house, a very lively, fun and enjoyable evening. An excellent promotion.

Attached here a few photos:

1. All the players on court (l to r Ashley Knight, Joel Hinds, Dave Palmer, David Palmer, John White, Bruce MacDonald)

2. At the stand (Kevin Webb – SW Sales Agent, Joel Hinds, David Palmer) 

 

Nic Strange and Joe Morgan Win the Mens Doubles in Slovak Open 2012

The first match saw the Welsh duo come up against a high ranking Croatian junior pairing of Filip Spoljarec and Josip Uglesic. After a slow start and being down 20-16 in the first set some good serving and controlling play saw the Welsh take the first set 22-20. After this they went onto win the second 21-14 moving into the quarter finals.
Next up was the 3rd seeded pair of Jonas Christensen (Norway) and Misbun Misbun Shawal (Malaysia). Some dominating play saw the Welsh take the first set 21-13 quickly following with the second set 21-17 taking them into the semi finals.
A Czech pair of Pavel Florian and Jaromir Janacek came up next and this saw the Welsh lose their first and only set of the competition. After being down a set the Welsh managed to claw back the second set to take it into a decider. After point for point play the Welsh came through on top winning 21-16 in the 3rd.
Onto the final where the Welsh played the number 1 seeds from Belarus Aleksai Konakh and Yauheni Yakauchuk. After some dominating play the Welsh took the first set 21-9 and feeling confident moving into the second they again took a quick lead. The Belarusians started to make progress toward the end and crawled back to 17-16 but the Welsh were to strong and took the final winning 21-9, 21-17.
Nic Strange quoted ‘it was great to play my first international tournament and we got off to the right start for the season. I can’t wait to get back playing and work on my ranking with Joe. Winning is just an amazing feeling and now we have to get back to Cardiff and get a good block of training in before Irish Future open 3 weeks’.
Joe Morgan quoted ‘I am absolutely delighted. I have had a tough couple of years due to injury and to win my comeback international is fantastic. A great start to the new partnership with Nic. We played well all weekend’.