Hunts County Squash Club among the big winners at annual Cambridgeshire County Championships

Hunts County Squash Club in Hemingford Grey hosted the 2024 Redmayne, Arnold & Harris Cambridgeshire County Championships at the weekend.

Representation came from teams across the county, with nearly every club involved in the event to fill two days of continuous play and a total of almost 70 individual matches to crown this year’s batch of champions.

In the Mixed Open, the host club’s defending champion Rob Dadds beat Thomas Ramsay of the City of Peterborough to clinch the top prize for the seventh time.

Hunts County also triumphed in the Women’s Open as Nicki Beaton beat Cambridge University’s Kelly Yip 15-7, 15-5, 15-13.

However, Yip bounced back to finish ahead of Sawston’s Hailey Tse in the battle for first place in the Women’s B-Grade Open.

The Mixed B-Grade Open final was an all-Comberton affair between Nathan Taylor and Connor Harmer, which the latter won 3-0.

It was the same scoreline between Cambridge’s Ali Dawson and Ely’s Chris Purkiss in the Men’s Over-45 final, while Vinod Duraikan of Melbourn added another county title to his impressive collection with a 3-1 triumph against Newmarket’s Santiago Uribe-Lewis in the Men’s Over-55s.

Meanwhile, Hunts County player Babs Moore beat Sue Crossley 3-0 in the final of the Women’s Over-50 event.