THE Guyana Squash Association (GSA), in collaboration with its corporate sponsor Digicel, launched its 2017 season with the customary Bounty Farm Ltd Handicap Squash Tournament which started yesterday at the Georgetown Club courts.As usual there will be two categories, with the more skilled players participating in the Open category and the less skilled and younger players participating in Category A. This year more than sixty-six players have signed up to take part..
Defending champion in the Open category, Jason-Ray Khalil, is away at school so Nyron Joseph starts with the most difficult handicap of -22.
Some of the other players in this category and their handicaps are: Regan Pollard -14, Deje Dias -2, Joseph Mekdeci +4, Taylor Fernandes +4, Dennis Dias +10, Alex Cheeks +3, Daniel Islam +3, Adam Alves +7, David Fernandes +10, Michael Atherley +10, Javid Rahaman +5 and Medhi Ramdhani +7.
In Category A, defending champion Samuel Ince-Carvalhal starts with a -8 handicap while other top-ranked players are Mohyryan Baksh, Abosaide Cadogan, Kirsten Gomes, Madison Fernandes, Aliyah Persaud, Paige Fernandes, Demetrius De Abreu and Gianni Carpenter.
All matches are best-of-three and action starts each evening at 18:00hrs. The finals of all the categories are set for February 19 starting at 11:00hrs.