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The Warkworth Squash Club has taken out the 2019 Auckland Winter Masters competition in its first season of entering a team.
The club was able to enter a formidable team in the first division after B1 ranked player Brett Meyer moved to Warkworth from Howick.
Team member Fiona Rouse says Brett was designated ‘player one’, which improved Warkworth’s whole line-up, as other skilled players dropped down a rung, “strengthening the bottom end”.
In the competition, four ranked individuals play their counterparts in the opposing team and the club with the most set wins at the end takes the top spot.
There were six teams in the round robin competition, including top clubs North Shore, Epsom and Remuera.
“When Warkworth played Remuera in the final game day of the season, tensions were high, despite Warkworth having earned a 12-point lead during the season,” Rouse says.
“We only needed to win one game but Remuera brought their strongest team against us. Our first player lost 3-0, scoring no points, and we started to get nervous.”
But Rouse herself won her match sets 3-1. Warkworth Club was six points clear at the end of the day, sealing the victory.
Rouse plays in the men’s division having earned enough points at the top level of women’s competitions to qualify for the B2 men’s ranking.
