Category: 2019

MATHUR MAKES VICTORIOUS RETURN FROM TOUR WITH CALLIS IN MARYLAND CLUB SEASON OPENER

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(l-r): Andrew Cordova, John Porter, Martin Knott, Robb Merritt, Mark Price, Manek Mathur, Sage Platt, Chris Callis, JD Wells, John Russell, Scott Arnold, Hugh McGuirk, Chris Haley Nearly one year after rupturing his Achilles while playing with Chris Callis, former world No. 1 Manek Mathur made a victorious return to the SDA Pro Tour with Callis by capturing the season-opening Maryland Club Open title, Monday, September 30, in Baltimore. The $50,000 diamond draw was reflective of the parity that formed over the course of last season in the vacuum of Mathur, who had gone undefeated with the now retired Damien Mudge two seasons ago. James Stout & Greg McArthur, who won three titles last season, led the draw as top seeds, opposed by world No. 1 John Russell & Scott Arnold as the two seeds. Callis, then ranked No. 2, and Mathur, No. 12, entered the top half of the draw as the four seeds. Mathur & Callis dropped their opening games in both […]

2019 Maryland Club Open Preview By Rob Dinerman

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September 25th, 2019 —- This weekend will mark the milestone 15th edition of the Maryland Club Open (MCO), which has become one of the most popular and best subscribed tournaments on the Squash Doubles Association (SDA) professional hardball doubles schedule. Partly stemming from its frequent positioning at the very outset of an SDA season, when there is always a furious battle among the top teams to either reassert or undo the prior campaign’s pecking order, and partly due as well to how enthusiastic the club-member turnout has perennially been (as witness the extraordinary size of the pro-am events and the degree to which the galleries are packed throughout the event), this tournament has borne witness over the years to some of the most memorable matches of any venue on the tour. This latter phenomenon began right in the very first evening of the inaugural edition of the MCO, Halloween night in 2003, during which two of […]