Steve Le Ray, who was to take the title, retrieves against Dave Merrien. (Pictures by Steve Sarre, 0869209)

At under-11 and under-9 level there were home wins  for Jack Turvey, Niall Adams, Jack Tacon, Katherine Jensen, Harry Martel and Elliot Bourge.

But the highlight of the weekend was to see Zephanie Curgenven and 16-year-old Issey Norman-Ross meeting each other in the women’s final after beating the three strong Jersey women in Kate Cadigan, Olivia French and Sarah Taylor.

Norman-Ross had a strong match in the quarter-final against Taylor and won in straight games.

She then managed to put out the number one seed and last year’s champion Cadigan in the semi-final.

Despite Cadigan’s great retrieving, Norman-Ross found the right balance between her deep and short shots allowing her to control the T. Despite some long and tiring rallies, the Guernsey schoolgirl kept her lucidity to win the key points and to take the match.

Curgenven’s move to England to become a professional squash player  has obviously paid off and her recent professional experience and   the consistent training seems to have given her gradual improvement month after month.

Still using her hard-hitting quality to play at a high pace and apply pressure to her opponent, she now knows when to slow down the pace and win rallies without making many errors.