Daryl Selby beat fellow Ashaway player and World number 1 Nick Matthew to win the British Nationals last weekend. A superb achievement, given the quality of players at this event.These are Daryl's thoughts sent to us by e-mail just after his win:
"... feels great to be the British Champion and to beat the World number 1 again!"
"I feel the last 6 months have had mostly ups with a few downs. The down was the Commonwealth Games where I lost in the quarter finals to Azlan Iskandar, and had hoped to get a medal. But I have had a lot of ups since then, making the quarter finals of the last 3 World Series events in 2010 and beating the World number 1 Nick Matthew in Kuwait.
2011 has also started well, as I won the Comfort Inn Open in Vancouver where I beat Hisham Ashour in the final (he beat David Palmer 3-0 in the semi). I also won the Edinburgh BSPA, which is the largest British Grand Prix event of the year, and then obviously winning the British Championships was brilliant. The Swedish Open I lost to Nick Matthew in the semi final, I didn't know there was a promotion of Ashaway at the event, although I did get a racket strung there.
My plans for the next 6 months, are Virginia next week for the North American Open, then Canary Wharf. I have a few weeks of training before the European Team Champs in Finland where I will hopefully be in the team for England. Then there are possibly 2 World series events in Egypt in May but we are waiting to hear. Then i am getting married in June! So will have an end of season break then, and start training in July in preparation for next season.
The string (UltraNick 18) is awesome, I am currently trying it at a tighter tension as I played the final last week with it slightly tighter than usual and really liked it. The playability is great, and for me the durability is absolutely fine..." "....it breaks slightly quicker than the PN18 but it never breaks too quickly"
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