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Nicols To The Fore In Croydon Club's PSL Debut

World Games gold medallists Peter Nicol and Nicol David will lead Premier Squash League debutantes Surrey Health & Racquets Club Croydon in their opening fixture in the new league tomorrow evening (Tuesday) at home against Gloucestershire's Oberthur Strings Tewkesbury .

 

England's Peter Nicol, the former world No1 who won the World Games title in Germany in July to claim the 50th major international squash title of his career, will face Australia's Cameron Pilley in the top string battle between the two clubs in the South Group. 

Like her namesake, Nicol David immediately followed her World Games success with another title on the professional tour - when she became the first local player to win the Malaysian Open in the event's 31-year history.  The world No3 from Penang faces the Tewkesbury club's Pakistan No1 Carla Khan.

UniSport Guildford, the University of Surrey team which leads the South group points table after beating University Sport Birmingham in the opening round, visit Team Chichester in the other second round tie in the south – with the Surrey squad's Alison Waters undoubtedly anxious to make amends for her surprise defeat in the earlier fixture when she takes on Chichester's Suzie Pierrepont.

The PSL boasts some mighty battles in the North group when Derbyshire's Benz-Bavarian Duffield host Nottingham in an East Midlands derby, and Wolverhampton entertain Churchill Edgbaston Priory in a similar needle match in the West Midlands .

At the helm for Duffield for the second successive week will be England's world No12 Nick Matthew, while Nottingham will herald the return of world No11 John White, the hard-hitting Scot who led the East Midlands team throughout last season.

's world No10 Tania Bailey, from Lincolnshire , will also be back in action for Duffield – and will face Nottingham 's other Scot Pamela Nimmo, the world No19 from Edinburgh .

Two Australians will go head-to-head in the other northern tie when Wolverhampton 's Anthony Ricketts, the world No7, meets David Palmer, the world No3 representing Birmingham 's Edgbaston Priory.

Another notable league return will be made by Edgbaston's Stewart Boswell, the Australian who has won eight PSA titles since April when he began his comeback after a two-year layoff with a back injury.  Boswell, who has only lost once for Priory since making his league debut for the club in 1998, faces Wolverhampton 's Scott Handley.

2nd round fixtures, Tuesday 4 October 2005

         North Group:
Benz-Bavarian Duffield                                                          v      Nottingham 
    Nick Matthew                                                                         v      John White                                 
    Renan Lavigne                                                                       v      Simon Parke                               
    Jonathan Kemp                                                                      v      John Rooney                              
    Paul Hargrave                                                                        v      Duncan Walsh                           
    Tania Bailey                                                                           v      Pamela Nimmo                            

Wolverhampton                                                                      v      Churchill Edgbaston Priory 
    Anthony Ricketts                                                                   v      David Palmer                              
    Shahid Zaman                                                                        v      Adrian Grant                              
    Alex Gough                                                                            v      Peter Barker                               
    Scott Handley                                                                        v      Stewart Boswell                        
    Dominique Lloyd-Walter                                                         v      Vicky Botwright 

         South Group: 
Team Chichester                                                                    v      UniSport Guildford 
    Ben Garner                                                                            v      Stacey Ross                              
    Peter Genever                                                                       v      Stephen Meads                          
    Tim Vail                                                                                  v      Jesse Engelbrecht                     
    Tom Richards                                                                         v      Neil Frankland                            
    Suzie Pierrepont                                                                    v      Alison Waters                            

Surrey H&RC Croydon                                                           v      Oberthur Strings Tewkesbury 
    Peter Nicol                                                                              v      Cameron Pilley                           
    Bradley Ball                                                                            v      Alister Walker                             
    Phillip Barker                                                                          v      Alex Stait                                   
    Tim Garner                                                                             v      Daryl Selby                                
    Nicol David                                                                             v      Carla Khan                                 

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