Vari Open

Finals
The final was once again between Petros and Fabian. Not many people attended and it was a pity cause both of them gave their best. Fabian won 11/7 11/5 7/11 11/8 (3-1). For the third place Vafakos won Tzakos and in A category Mark Booth won Manos Kokkinaras 3-2 in an epic match. Congratulations to Vari sports club and especially George Pipergias for a nice organisation and always helping the growth of the sport in Greece.
Quarter-finals
At the quarters happened a big upset, the biggest for many years! Leonidas Tzakos beat former Greek champion Nikos Moustroufis 11/9 2/11 12/10 15/13 ! Fantastic effort from Leo. At the other matches Petros Tzamaloukas,who won Nikos Moustroufis, and Fabian Kalaitzis safely got through to the semis. George Vafakos also, beat Andreas Hiotakis 3/1. Today are the semis : Tzamaloukas-Vafakos and Kalaitzis-Tzakos

Balkan Cup, Belgrade

I was too close in winning my first PSA tournament of the season but lost in the final of the Balkan Cup to Ivan Djorjevic after I was leading 2-0 games he came back to 2-2 and then in the last game I was leading 6/2 and 9/7. At 9/9 he made an unbeliavable shot and at matchball I tinned for the match. I was sad but these things happen and already I am looking forward to my next tournaments, the Vari Open and the Nationals.

Belgrade was really nice city and I had great time with the other two Greeks competing,Nikos Moustroufis (3rd place) and Nikos Symeonidis (9th place). Look forward to come back soon...

Full report at : http://www.squashsite.co.uk/balkan_cup.htm

St Petersburg Open

Got back on Monday from St Petersburg where I played among with Fabian to the city's annual tournament. It was my second time there and again it was a fantastic experience in such a beautiful city. After a long flight we landed in a 'white' city as it was already snowing! It was really cold for us and we soon were at our hotel. Tournament was great but I lost in the semis from Fabian and then lost again unfortunately for the third place to Alex Pauvulans. That was a game to win which I didn't. But we really had a good time with the boys, we ve been to some nice restaurants,bars and on and look forward to come back soon...
Next tournament is on Belgrade again,Serbia on 23rd of November. We ll keep in touch