Pre Season Warm Up Games

We will be hosting a pre-NSL season warm up against old friends in the league. The players will mostly be from the D/Veterans group from Singtel/Elias.

Game will be on Thursday 19th Feb at SIA Sports Club. 

See you guys there.

SSRA Confirms Our Participation in NSL 2009

We have just recevied confirmation from SSRA with regards to our E and Veterans Div II participation in this years NSL.

Now's the time to get rid of the fat accumulated over the new year and get ready for the season which is expected to start at the end of February.

Club Players 2009 (Work In Progress)

Once we have finalised our league teams and submitted them to SSRA, the list of club players for 2009 will be posted here.

Annual Report and Budget 2009

The committee is in the process of submitting the Annual Report and Budget for 2009. If you have any inputs for the annual report or the budget, please contact Jeremy.

SSRA National Squash League Final Results For 2008

The final results of last year's league season can be found at SSRA's website.

Our D grade team came in 7th out of 11 teams while our F Grade team came in 13th out of 18 teams

Click here to see the details

NSL 2009 will commence in Feb 2009. We have submitted 2 teams this year:

The E Grade team and a Veterans team.

As most of our active players are ranked in the E grade, it makes more sense to field a strong E grade team rather than a weak D grade team. Moreover, our active F grade players have also been promoted to the E grade this year.

This year will also be the first time in many years that we will be fielding a Veterans team. Most of our E grade players will also be able to play in the Veterans team.

E grade games will be on Mondays and Veterans games will be on Friday. 

SIA Squash Section Committee Members 2009

The Committee Members For 2009 are as follows:

Advisor : Captain Eric Yeow

Convenor: Kalidas Periayah

Asst Convenor: Jeremy Lee

Treasurer: Wendy Quah

Captain: Oma Koppe

Social Director: Frank Foo

Members: Captain Eric Phuah, Captain Felix Chen, Mohd Rizal

National Squash League (NSL) 2009

Dear Squashers,

Happy New Year.

We have now registered our teams for NSL.
We have dropped the D team as there are not enough D players to make it a viable team. As such Felix, Frank and myself will be guest stars at the E and Veterans Div II teams when they are short of players.

Progress of our teams will be published on this blog.

Go easy on the Bak Kuah and stuff during the CNY period. League starts mid Feb.

See you in court.

Jeremy

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We intend to field 3 teams in NSL 2009.

D grade
E grade
Veterans (D & E combined)

We will not be fielding an F team as there are insufficient players to have a viable F team.

At this point in time, we are looking for ground staff who are able to captain the teams for next year's NSL. It will make it easier for opponents to contact the team captains for last minute arrangements.

Please send me an email if you are able to volunteer as a captain of one of the teams.

Copies of this years SSRA grading list have already been emailed to most of you.

Jeremy

NSL 2009 Chairman's Letter

Appended below is the NSL Chairman's letter to clubs for NSL 2009

Date: 11 December 2008

Dear Fellow Squashers,

On behalf of the Singapore Squash Rackets Association (SSRA), I would like to invite all clubs and aspiring players to form teams to participate in this years’ National Squash League (NSL) 2009 starting 16th February.
The NSL, formerly known as the Inter-Club League has had been in existence since the

1970s, and the competition has been extremely competitive since its inception and remains

to be with the recent years’ results only being decided on the very last day of the League. The 2009 NSL Sub-Committee consisting of the following persons will help to run the event:
Chairman : Bernard Kheng (NP) Vice Chairman : Edwin Lee (SAFRA) Secretary : Vincent Yeo (SAFRA) Committee Members : Molly Chua (SAFRA) Club Representative : Dave Phua (UCSC) : Manmindar Singh (SCC) Advisor : Raymond Tan (SGCC)
In addition to this, we welcome club representatives to join us on the committee for the NSL and tournaments organization like the Individual Graded Open.
Registration will be limited to the maximum of 12 players per team where once all places are filled, there will be no further addition allowed. Also feeding of players can only come from one grade lower during the tournament. However exceptions shall be available to smaller clubs who may have one or two other teams in the lower grades to avoid giving walkover instead.
The entry form for registration and individual members registration is attached and is also available and can be downloaded from the SSRA web-site www.ssra.org.sg
In addition to this, SSRA would like to remind all teams submitting to ensure all details of the forms are completely filled up. Any important details missing like the Identification No. and date of birth will render the entry void. This is to enable SSRA to keep track of all players and ensure that players are correctly graded for all events and competitions.

Also payments for all submissions not received latest by mid-season break else will be disqualified from the League.
ALL ENTRIES AND PAYMENTS FOR THE NSL MUST REACH THE OFFICE NOT LATER THAN 16 JANUARY 2009. FOR LAST MINUTE ENTRIES, YOU MAY EMAIL THEM DIRECTLY TO ME AT Bernard.kheng@gmail.com or the office email ssra@ssra.org.sg
Players grading lists have been sent to you in a separate mailer and the registrations should be based on the grades indicated there. I have attached a copy of the latest grading list for your information.
The Organizing Committee welcomes any feedback or comments that will help us to further improve the NSL and make Squash a better sport to play and compete. With this, I look forward to your participation. Thank you.
Yours truly, Bernard Kheng NSL Chairman

SIA - Singapore Swimming Club Bilateral - 9th Nov

We managed a narrow win over Singapore Swimming Club by 3-2
Jeremy, Felix and Oma won their games in the outing against SSC.

Thanks for all who made the effort to play on Sunday.
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We need 5 Guys for the bilateral with SSC this Sunday 9th of November.

Venue will be SSC courts and games start at 3:30pm.

Felix Chen - Can Play if required

Jeremy - Can Play
Frank Foo - Can Play
Johann Pieris - Can Play

Yak Keng - Back after 3pm, can play

Eric phuah - Base Check

Colin - Not Available
Oma Koppe - on flight
Jack Lim - unable
Kalidas - unable
Lenz - unable

Interhouse Squash 2008 Results

Champions - Tengah
Runners Up - Seletar
3rd - Paya Lebar
4th - Changi


Semi Finals:
Seletar vs Changi (4-1)
Eric Phuah bt Oma Koppe
Jeremy Lee bt Gerald Pan
Kalidas Periyah - WO
Ng Yak Keng - WO
Gillian Chew bt Evelyn Kong

Paya Lebar vs Tengah (2-3)
Md Rizal bt Felix Chen
Lenz Fan bt Eric Yeow
Frank Foo bt Ng Eng Kiat
Jack Lim bt Hing CM
Wendy Quah WO

Finals
Seletar vs Tengah (1-4)
Md Rizal bt Eric Phuah
Lenz Fan bt Jeremy Lee
Frank Foo bt Kalidas Periyah
Hing CM bt Ng Yak Keng
Evelyn Kong WO

3rd and 4th
Paya Lebar vs Changi (4-1)
Oma Koppe bt Felix Chen
Eric Yeow bt Gerald Pan
Ng Eng Kiat WO
Jack Lim WO
Wendy Quah WO