Month: August 2018

While Sneha Sivakumar made global headlines with her unbelievable feat of making the last eight in the individual event, the boys on the other hand, were given a rude, but somewhat expected, awakening. Given that the boys have had limited exposure to top level junior squash, they were pretty much going into the unknown. Apart from top junior Aaron Liang, all the others crashed out easily in the opening round of 128. Matthew was bundled …

Sneha Sivakumar and Samuel Kang claimed top honours at the 4th leg of the SGSquash Circuit, which augurs well for the nation’s top two players ahead of the Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia this month. Sneha, who is riding high on a spectacular performance at the World Juniors, continued her fine run of form as she easily took the title without dropping a game. Despite entries from neighbouring Malaysia, the SPEX scholar was in her …

If we were all honest enough, going into the World Juniors and coming out with a top eight finish by any Singaporean in any event was something unthinkable even to the most optimistic person. But Sneha Sivakumar, a SPEX (Sports Excellence Scholarship) scholar did just that in Chennai, India. Entering the event unseeded and relatively unknown, the 17 year old Raffles Institution student fought her way through the last eight before bowing out to England’s …