Good news from Amsterdam…Luxembourg beats Ukraine 3-1
picture taken from www.squashsite.co.ukIn an impressive start to the European team squash championships Luxembourg men won their first pool game against Ukraine 3-1. Ukraine the highest ranked team in the group are seeded number 20 but the Luxembourg team were in contol from the beginning. Nathan Sneyd and Sanjay Raval both won 3-0. Stephane Ayache had a difficult time against a strong Ukraine number 3. He fought back gamely in the 2nd and 3rd sets but in the end went down 3-0. The number 4 string match provided the closest match of the tie, Danny Hutchines for Luxembourg coming back to win 10-8 in the 5th having earlier been 2-1 down.Luxembourg now look forward to the next pool match against Latvia, seeded 23. Luxemboug now have high hopes of winning the group from an unseeded position. Sneyd beat Dolinich (9/5 9/1 9/1)Raval beat Shandybin (9/5 9/3 9/5) Ayache lost Sherbakov( 4/9 7/9 8/10) Hutchines beat Rybalchenko ( 9/1 6/9 3/9 9/3 10/8) tournament website: www.etcsquash2008.nl
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picture taken from www.squashsite.co.ukIn an impressive start to the European team squash championships Luxembourg men won their first pool game against Ukraine 3-1. Ukraine the highest ranked team in the group are seeded number 20 but the Luxembourg team were in contol from the beginning. Nathan Sneyd and Sanjay Raval both won 3-0. Stephane Ayache had a difficult time against a strong Ukraine number 3. He fought back gamely in the 2nd and 3rd sets but in the end went down 3-0. The number 4 string match provided the closest match of the tie, Danny Hutchines for Luxembourg coming back to win 10-8 in the 5th having earlier been 2-1 down.Luxembourg now look forward to the next pool match against Latvia, seeded 23. Luxemboug now have high hopes of winning the group from an unseeded position. Sneyd beat Dolinich (9/5 9/1 9/1)Raval beat Shandybin (9/5 9/3 9/5) Ayache lost Sherbakov( 4/9 7/9 8/10) Hutchines beat Rybalchenko ( 9/1 6/9 3/9 9/3 10/8) tournament website: www.etcsquash2008.nl 
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Due to not competing for such a long time and having no players competing on the Professional Squash Association Tour (PSA), Luxembourg has not been seeded. The official draw has placed the team in a pool with (seedings in brackets) Ukraine (20) and Latvia (23) in the first phase of the tournament. The teams in this pool are in the First Division (as opposed to the Premier Division which includes the highest ranked teams ). Should we finish 1st, we will be playing off for positions 13 -20 as well as promotion to the Premier Division. This would put Luxembourg in a play-off section with three more knock-out matches to play. Should we finish in 2nd or 3rd place in the pool, we will be playing off for positions 21-28. Ukraine and Latvia represent unknown quantities for the Luxembourg team, and are sure to provide stiff opposition. Success would then mean matches against the likes of Italy (13), Austria (14), Hungary (15) or Belgium (16) and in all of these countries, squash is well-developed, with a big pool of players to choose from, so an even bigger challenge would be guaranteed. Further information: