SHANE HURNDELL Former world masters squash champion Kay Glenny is embarrassed. At 62 the EIT sports massage course student shouldn't be winning open titles. But yesterday she won her second within a month. The second seed in the CIS New Zealand-sponsored Hawke's Bay Squash Club Open in Napier beat the top seedand fellow B1 grader Liz Hamilton 3-2 in the final after winning her three previous matches in the 74-player tournament. "In my speech at the tournament's prize-giving I told everyone I'm really beatable. The young ones are almost there ... they just have to come and do it," said Glenny (pictured right) who won her Hawke's Bay Lawn club's open earlier this month. "It takes me a lot of will power and thinking to win at open level these days. I can't afford to lose my concentration and if I'm not 100 per cent on top of my game the younger players will out run me," said Glenny, who won two gold medals at the 2005 World Masters Games in Canada. In January she won singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles at the national veterans tennis tournament in Napier. Today she was playing for her Napier club in Golf Hawke's Bay's Ashcott Cup women's interclub tournament and this weekend will be playing in the doubles and mixed doubles sections of the Otumoetai Veterans tennis tournament in Bay of Plenty. Host club B1 grader and top seed Grant Katterns won the men's open section of the tournament after a countback of sets. He beat B2 graded clubmate Hayden Niethe by one set. Niethe forced the countback when he beat Katterns 3-1. Niethe had earlier lost to Havelock North B2 grader Peter Cirovic. Glenny is unsure when her next squash tournament will be. The next tournament scheduled within the Eastern District is the Havelock North Open from June 8-10. It will be interesting to see if her regular opponents, many of whom are half her age, can halt her winning run ,should she enter.
