Sundays Well Squash Club Championship commenced on Monday 25th March and finished on April 13. 20 players competed across 3 sections and there were social drinks held on the club on Finals Night. Well done to all who entered and to Johnny Hurley who beat Mike Howard in the final. The full draw can be viewed at this link and there are some photos available at this link on Facebook.
Last weekend (29th-31st March) saw the completion of the Club’s first major event for 2019, the Munster Open Veterans Tournament.Over 165 players from all over the country participated in 28 events from over 35 to over 70 age categories. This was a bigger entry than in 2018. We saw some fantastic tennis from some of the county’s top Veteran tennis players and which was aided in no small part by brilliant sunshine throughout the weekend. Several Sundays Well players took top honours in the following events O50 Doubles: Marie Duffy …
On Sunday 31st of March, Sunday’s Well had two teams playing in the Civil Service Cup, an annual interclub event which is held in Douglas Tennis Club. The teams were made up of Robert Murphy, Dermot Carbery, Ann Humphries and Emma Crowley Claire Fennell, Maria Crowley, Hugh Nagle and Ed Donovan Claire’s team reached the semis but were unfortunately beaten by the eventual winners Monkstown. Congratulations need to go to Monkstown on their win and well done to Douglas on hosting a very enjoyable event. A number of photos are…
The finals of our new Super Seniors event took place on December 11th, there was some superb tennis and followed by festive lunch. A massive well done to Mags Cronin and Noel Murphy who were the overall winners also a huge thank you needs to go to our sponsor Stephen McCarthy, to Liz Brosnan for donating some of the spot prizes, to Liam Murphy of Brook Inn for his delicious lunch and also to Donal Murray, Paul O’Callaghan, Mary Jane Kenefick and Donal Johnson who have been the ones doing…
Over the next few days, Sunday’s Well will play host to some of the World’s top Squash players The excitement is building to this weekend’s Neilly Sull Squash Open. Derval O’ Rourke was delighted to visit the Club recently for a photo shoot to launch this year’s tournament. The Club is very excited to welcome Joel Makin, new world No.24, Josh Masters, world No. 50, Miles Jenkins, world No. 178 and Irish International Brian Byrne, world No. 158. Members are welcome to come and watch. Relevant Links Irish Examiner Article…
Well done to our U14 team who won the Junior Cup Final yesterday in St Anne’s, beating Killaloe 5-0. The team was made up of – Louise O’Callaghan – Ellie Purrmann – James Wixted – Reem Gafurov A big thank you also to non-playing captain Paul O’Callaghan, all the parents and coaches for their support. ????????????????
From October 12th-14th Sunday’s Well was delighted to host the 34th William Bradley & Co National (Veterans) Close. The competition was run by Munster Branch was a success despite some pretty nasty weather on Saturday, thankfully the finals day on Sunday proved to be a much sunnier day. Sunday’s Well was very well represented on finals day and congratulations are due to the following players who won events outright Abby Hayes Mary Claire McCarthy Deirdre McSherry Deirdre Swinburne The full results are available at this link and there are also a number…
The Insight Senior Close Week took place between September 23rd – 29th and was again well attended with over 100 entries. The Close Week Barbecue was well supported with over 80 people in attendence. A massive thank you to our sponsors Insight Investment and also to Emma Crowley, our tournament director. The lists of winners is available at this link and there are also a number of photos available from Facebook.
Well done to Donal Johnson, Stuart Ahern, Niall O’Sullivan and Chris McCusker who reached the Summer Cup Finals in Nenagh on September 8th. Unfortunately, they were beaten 3-1 by a very strong Larkspur team in the finals but there is no doubt they did amazingly well to get to the finals and have done the club very proud.
The Davy Munster Junior Open was held last week and it was another busy week with over 260 kids taking part in 38 events! Well done to all our junior players who took part and congratulations in particular to our finalists and winners. The results are available here Also, a very big thank you to our tournament committee Emma Crowley, Mags Kelleher and Ger Flynn and the junior committee for all their hard work over the last few weeks and also thank you to our sponsors Davy and Fyffes and all…
As many of you know the Munster Senior Open was held at the beginning of June. It was a busy week with 30 events, 484 players, 401 matches but it all went very smoothly! Well done to all our players who took part and congratulations to our finalists and winners. The results are available here A very big thank you to Dara Carberry, the tournament director and the tournament committee, all our sponsors particularly Brook Inn and all the volunteers (over 65 of you!) who contributed time to help in the office, umpire matches, be ball boys/girls.
What a Squash Irish Open we had this weekend. John Rooney former Irish Professional player from Galway won the men’s over 35 beating defending champion Keith Moran from Sligo, both pictured below. Neal Murphy from Nass successfully defended his over 40 title beating Dara O’Flynn from Fitzwilliam in Dublin 3-1 in the final. Well done to Sundays Well for hosting this prestigious Tournament and to Johnny Hurley as Tournament Director.