Perry and Massaro double up for glory in Commonwealth test event

The event, which was held at the new Scotstoun Sports Complex, Glasgow, as a tester event for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, received entries from some of the world’s top squash nations with the winners of the three first round pool leagues meeting in a final pool.

Perry and Massaro found themselves at match point down to Sarah Cardwell and Melody Francis from Australia in the first match but Perry played an amazing forehand winner to level and the English pair then took control to win 9-11, 11-10, 11-6.

They then beat Wales’ Tesni Evans and Deon Saffrey 11-5, 11-10 to progress to the top pool alongside two other English duos.

They were beaten 11-7,4-11, 11-10 by Jenny Duncalf and Emma Beddoes, but as Duncalf and Beddoes then lost 2-0 to Alison Waters and Sarah Kippax, the championship hinged on the result of the final rubber, which Perry and Massaro won 11-7, 11-9 to clinch the title.

Perry had played Beddoes earlier in the week in the final of the British Squash Players’ Association Grand Prix, held at Roehampton.

Perry came through a hard semi-final against Scotland’s Lisa Aitken 7-11, 11-7, 3-11, 11-5, 11-7 and raced to match point in the final.

However, Beddoes hit back to take the title 8-11, 5-11, 12-10, 11-6, 11-3.

 Westgate School pupil Jessica Brazier caused a stir with a run to the semi-final of the girls’ under-11 event at the English Championships.

The unseeded youngster beat Elizabeth Ireland, Olivia Besant and top-four seed Emma Bartley before coming unstuck against second seed and eventual winner Torrie Malik in the semi-final.

Brazier then went down to defeat in an epic five-game battle against Ellie Hewes in the third/fourth play-off.