The past month has been pretty busy with tournaments and I've racked up a serious amount of frequent flyer points. I'm gonna be racking up a few more by the end of the year with a flight to India then onto Australia. Come on Gold status with Star Alliance!!
I've been giving my results via twitter but if you're not on twitter, then you should be. Kidding. Results have been average, nothing great, nothing too shit. Instead of getting into my matches I thought I'd give you an insight into what actually happens day to day as a professional squash player.
Going off the last tournament, only one thing was really happening. Backgammon. There's those who can play (Copps), those who think they can play but just seem to get unlucky rolls all the time and their opponent always gets the lucky rolls and all the luck (Robbie), and those who are just learning but are now addicted (Ryder). I find the way a player plays backgammon reflects the way they play squash, which was ringing true until I played Kempy. Extemely attacking squash player yet very defensive backgammoner (if that's a word). But Kempy did go away and do some research after getting flogged by myself and Copps and came back with some game!
The picture above I took in Macau. It's a massive casino which I kindly donated a few Benjamins to purely because it looked as though they needed some money. 3 years ago the building was just getting started, now it is finished and looks spectacular. There's another casino behind that one which is even bigger and better!
Hong Kong is a great place for a tournament and it was great to hang out there for a week playing squash and eating a LOT of rice and noodles. I seriously don't know how many dishes of bbq pork I ate but we're talking double digits.
With India the last tournament of the year in 2 weeks, I'm just training and preparing for 1 last push before an Aussie summer.
