Cambridge Club Doubles Set For This Weekend In Toronto
by Rob Dinerman, for DailySquashReport.com
Dateline November 16th --- Twelve of the top ISDA players will convene at the Cambridge Club in downtown Toronto this weekend to compete for the Jim Bentley Cup in the 38th annual Cambridge Club Doubles Championship. This tournament kicks off an important stretch in the ISDA schedule, with the Big Apple Open set for the first weekend of December at the New York Athletic Club and the biennial Briggs Cup to follow in Rye one week after that to conclude the autumn 2011 portion of the season.
Ben Gould, who with Michael Pirnak won this event two years ago, will be teaming with Chris Walker in a three-team round-robin bracket that will also include the Paul Price/Mark Chaloner (each a former Cambridge Club Doubles champion) and Matt Jenson/Raj Nanda pairings (none of whom have ever partnered up before), while in the other bracket, John Russell (winner of this event with Viktor Berg last year, defeating Jenson and Preston Quick in a five-game final) and his English compatriot Clive Leach (who turns 39 on Friday), who led Ben Gould and Damien Mudge two games to one in the World Doubles in Toronto this past spring before eventually being overtaken, will be competing against Manek Mathur/Greg Park and Mudge and Willie Hosey, who reached the final in St. Louis in their only prior foray as partners in October 2007.
The two respective bracket winners will face off in the final on Monday night.
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