Competing in the Bedell Group Jersey Open Squash Championships at St Clement at the weekend, Hopkins beat Rob Hickling in straight sets and, in a much closer contest, Taylor beat Kate Cadigan 3-2.
In the men’s event, both players began at a furious pace, but Hopkins turned on the pressure as the match progressed. And, after two days of intense squash, and 50 minutes of fierce hitting in an absorbing final, he was awarded the title, and the trophy. It was also the first England Squash and Racketball sanctioned Jersey Open championship.
The women’s final proved to be a very different and far closer affair. For both Sarah Taylor and current Island Closed champion Kate Cadigan, firm friends away from the squash courts, seemed evenly matched and, in truth, that final could have gone either way.
