Toronto’s Mike McCue, Michelle Gemmell Take Home 2011 North American Juniors Titles
August 22, 2011 - Over 100 juniors from Canada, the U.S, Mexico and Portugal competed in the 2011 North American Junior Open from Friday to Sunday at the National Squash Academy at Downsview Park in Toronto.
Tournament organizer Mark Sachvie opted to use an unconventional draw system in order to maximize the number of matches each player would get. Each event either began with a round robin followed by a Monrad crossover draw, or started as a draw and separated into pools after a qualifying round. In any case, players participated in four to seven matches!
There were hopes of home winners in both u19 divisions as Mike McCue and Michelle Gemmell were top seeds. After winning her round robin pool, Gemmell beat Emily Richmond (Toronto) in the semis before taking the title against Rachel Leizman (U.S.) in a three game final. Leizman defeated Ailsa Agnew (Toronto) in her semi. In the boys event, McCue beat Cameron Seth (Fergus) 3-1 in the first semifinal, while Mostafa Hamada (Egypt) bested Josh Sekhar (Toronto) by the same score in the other semi. The final, played on the stadium glass court, saw defending champion McCue defeat Hamada 3-0 in increasingly convincing fashion.
A very successful event on the whole, which has doubled in size since its inception in 2008.
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