The Optasia Squash Super League returns in style this Friday, with a blockbuster triple-header coming your way live on SQUASHTV.
Table-toppers Chichester Centurions will look to continue their superb start to the season with a home tie against the Bristol Buccaneers, with second-placed Leamington Royals also enjoying a home fixture against the Coolhurst Cavaliers. The final of the three fixtures will see St George’s Hill Knights host the Bexley Ballers.
With players such as Mohamed ElShorbagy, Joel Makin, Mazen Hesham, Georgina Kennedy, Satomi Watanabe and Jasmine Hutton having all featured so far this season, this Friday looks set to be yet another eye-catching instalment in the debut season.
Read below to see the six world-class lineups fielded by the respective teams and the blockbuster matches that await.
Play from all three matches gets underway from 19:00, with every second of action available to watch LIVE and for FREE on SQUASHTV. Full replays of all three fixtures will also be available on the England Squash YouTube Channel.
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Leamington Royals v Coolhurst Cavaliers
Men’s: Victor Crouin [LR] v Raphael Kandra [CC]
Women’s: Lucy Turmel [LR] v Sarah-Jane Perry [CC]
Men’s U25: Ben Smith [LR] v Simon Herbert [CC]
Club Hero: Rory Richmond [LR] v Luke Bishop [CC]
The Leamington Royals will look to make gains on the table-topping Chichester Centurions this evening as they welcome the Coolhurst Cavaliers to the Leamington Lawn Tennis & Squash Club.
French and German national champions Victor Crouin and Raphael Kandra will lead the respective lineups in the men’s match – two players renowned for their incredible strokeplay and eye-catching style of squash.
Elsewhere, former World No.5 Sarah-Jane Perry will make her debut for the Coolhurst Cavaliers when taking on the Royals’ Lucy Turmel in what should be a well-matched all-England duel.
World No.52 Simon Herbert and World No.77 Ben Smith will contest the Men’s U25 match, while respective Club Heroes Rory Richmond and Luke Bishop will look to get their teams off to the perfect start when they go head-to-head in the first match of the evening.
St George’s Hill Knights v Bexley Ballers
Men’s: Joel Makin [SGK] v Mohamed Abouelghar [BB]
Women’s: Alicia Mead [SGK] v Rana Ismail [BB]
Women’s U25: Sophie Fadaely [SGK] v Jasmine Thirst [BB]
Club Hero: Miles Jenkins [SGK] v Jack Webster [BB]
The St George’s Hill Knights and the Bexley Ballers will square off for the second time this season tonight, with the first meeting between the two teams seeing a tight 2-2 finish go the way of the Knights on countback scoring.
This time around, both will be desperately hoping for strong showings which will help propel them up the Squash Super League table.
World No.5 Joel Makin and World No.27 Mohamed Abouelghar return for their teams in the men’s match after both featuring earlier in the season. Makin, who has been in sublime form on the PSA Squash Tour this season, recently picked up the Silver-level Pittsburgh Open title and is likely to prove a tricky customer for Abouelghar to break down.
Elsewhere, Alicia Mead faces Rana Ismail in the women’s match, after the injury withdrawal of Georgina Kennedy for the Ballers, while up-and-coming duo Sophie Fadaely and Jasmine Thirst square off in the Women’s U25 leg of the tie.
Club Hero Miles Jenkins will feature for the Knights again and look to get them off to a strong start in front of their home fans when he takes on the Ballers’ Jack Webster.
Chichester Centurions v Bristol Buccaneers
Men’s: Jonah Bryant [CC] v Patrick Rooney [BB]
Women’s: Katie Malliff [CC] v Tesni Murphy [BB]
U25s: Megan Light [CC] v Wai Iynn Au Yeong [BB]
Club Hero: Tim Vail [CC] v James Snell [BB]
The Chichester Centurions have proven a tough team to overcome this season, having recorded two big wins from their three fixtures so far this season and currently sitting top of the Squash Super League table.
It will be the Bristol Buccaneers who are assigned the challenge of defeating the Centurions tonight, with Patrick Rooney, Tesni Murphy, Wai Iynn Au Yeong and James Snell making the journey for the Workout Harbourside-based team.
In the men’s match, Rooney will face teenage prospect Jonah Bryant, while Welsh No.1 Murphy will take on England’s Katie Malliff, who last time out stunned Georgina Kennedy by recording her first-ever win over the British Nationals champion.
Tim Vail and James Snell will kickstart proceedings in the Club Hero encounter, while Megan Light and Wai Iynn Au Yeong will contest the Women’s U25 clash.
