Category: News

Egypt Top Series Table

The Black Knight Series Standings have now been posted with an early lead for Thionville’s, Mido Khalil.  The skillful Egyptian has secured the top spot, albeit closely followed by the next 10 competitors, with 115 Points.  These, include the highest placed female players, Daniela Arcone and Françoise Donven, both “Angels”and runners-up in their respective draws.  Impressively, Jérémy Kocan, despite a 4th placing in his draw accrued an additional 27 Series Points due to his exceptional wins over higher ranked players, earning him his 5th place Standing.   
Black Knight Series #2 will be “The Clubs”Open held at Top Squash on the 9th & 10th January 2015 and will be the 2nd of 7 planned Series events.  Don’t forget that the final Series Standing positions will be the sum of a players’ top 5 performances.   So get your entry in as soon as possible to improve your Standing and increase your chance of being ‘Black Knighted’ at the Series prizegiving. 

The Federation is delighted Black Knight currently sponsor a tenth of the world’s top 50 PSA players and enjoy  continued support and involvement from former World No. 1,  David Palmer.   Keep up to date with the achievements of Team Black Knight plus the latest squash developments on facebook/BLACKKNIGHTSQUASH, and twitter @BLACKKNIGHTEUR.

If you would like to find out more about Black Knight please get in touch with Chris by email to mvp-sports@outlook.com.

Black Knight Series Standing

Black Knight Series Rules

Congrats to our new champions: Nathan Sneyd (champion fédéral), Sandra Denis (championne fédérale et nationale) et Danny Hutchines (champion national) !

The Federation is delighted to announce the introduction of the Black Knight Series for the 2014/15 season.

The Series will include 7 of the established tournaments in the FSL calendar, commencing with the Luxembourg Individual Squash Championship 2014 scheduled for the 7 & 8 November. Every tournament player has the chance to win the Black Knight Series title. Series Points are accumulated at every Series event and are based on a competitors relative performance. The amount of Points that a player will accrue will depend on their final draw placement, irrespective of the draw played, plus bonus Points for every FSL ranking point they have won throughout that tournament. Please see the ‘Black Knight Series Rules’ attached below for more information.

All players will be competing for a top 5 standing in the Series which will guarantee they are ‘Black Knighted’ at the Series prizegiving. We can already disclose that the winner will receive a prize bundle including the Black Knight ION Element PSX Selby, officially launched in September 2014. See below for details of this top level racket, as developed and used by PSA World No. 9, Daryl Selby. MVP Sports, the official distributor for Black Knight across Luxembourg and Belgium, is the sponsor of the Series.

If you would like to find out more about Black Knight please get in touch with Chris by email to mvp-sports@outlook.com.

Black Knight Series Rules

STRONG DUTCH PERFORMANCES IN THE ENTRAPAULUS JUNIOR OPEN

The fourth Luxembourg Junior Squash Tournament was held this weekend at the Top Squash Club in Sandweiler. The tournament, sponsored by ENTRAPAULUS, is an event on the tournament circuit of the European and World Squash Federations and attracted an impressive field of 82 players from 10  different countries.
In the Boys’ U-13 (B U-13) draw, a fine performance by André Igelbrink (DE) gave him the title over the no.1 seed, Grégory Malsang (FR), with Harold Castiaux (BE) taking third place. Luxembourg’s best player was Philippe Olinger who beat higher seeded players to finish in 13th position. The B U-15 draw gave local players Miguel Duarte and Tumi Tomasson the opportunity to shine and both won through to the third round before being eliminated by strong opponents.
However, in the battle for places, both produced good performances for Miguel to finish 7th and Tumi 5th. The draw was won by Anthony Schwab (NL), with Henrico Van der Vegt (NL) 2nd and David Maier (LIE) 3rd. The biggest draw of the whole tournament, the Boys’ U-17 group, produced some squash of the highest quality, and resulted in a clean sweep for the Dutch team, Thijs van der Pluijm producing a fine controlled game to defeat his compratriot, Donny van Hal 3-0, 3rd place being taken by Peter Fritsche.
In the main competition, the B U-19, the exciting final thrilled the large crowd, with Patrick Maier (LIE) just winning 3-2 against the impressive Romanian Vasile Hapun. 3rd place was taken by Christophe Winzer.
In the G U-13 competition, Virginie Gustin (BE) showed her superiority in winning without dropping a set, Marie-Amélie Callebaut (BE) coming second and Fanny Beccegato (FR) third. Luxembourg’s representatives in the G U-15 draw, Stella Nightingale and Anvita Ramachandran fought well and showed improvement compared to last year’s tournament, but were faced with top class opposition, the draw being won by Alice Kramer (DE). Gabi Fritsche (NL) finished second and Juliette Permentier 3rd.
The G U-17 draw was dominated by Florence Arnold (BE) who did not drop a set, despite a brave performance by Tayo Kamaansing (NL) in the final. Eugénie Leyman (BE) finished 3rd.
The age group trophies, offered by the Spuerkeess, were presented by Matthew Radley, Vice-President of the Squash Federation. The Fair Play Trophy, offered by LABgroup, was presented to Lily Vigor of Luxembourg.

• pictures can be found here