Cambs Squash

Sammy in action

Crown’s Sammy Chambers capped an outstanding season by leading the England U17team to glory when clinching the European team title.

In a season where he has already become the county’s youngest ever Senior champion and has lead the County boys u17 squad to the National title this has to be a moment to savour.

Somewhat surprisingly overlooked for earlier squads Sammy cruised through pool matches against Italy and Belgium alongside team mates Charles Sharples ,Nick Hopcroft; Kimberly Hay and Millie Tomblinson.

Playing at 1st String England coaches played Sammy in all matches and rotated the other players through the tournament.

Sammy has trained hard under Rebeccca Moore’s guidance in readiness for a clash with his long time rival, Gemany’s Rudi Rohmuller.

However after coming through quarterfinal wins over Holland and a semi final against Wales there was a surprise as Germany crashed out to France in the other semi with Rohmueller going down to Lucas Serme in 5 hard sets.

Lucas Serme is the younger brother of BJO champion Camille Serme and is clearly a class act and would have probably been expected to be victorious against Sammy especially after his superb semi final win.

However, once England drew first blood through Kimberly Hay then England were just one win away from the Gold medal in this 3-person team event.

Sammy lost the first set to a confident Serme but quickly levelled it to one-all.
Serme won the 3rd with some great squash leaving Sammy with at ,as they say, “all to do”.

The brief report from Rebecca Moore then says it all – “Sammy played just great , he was really fantastic, when he won the next 2 sets I was just so proud. Absolutely wonderful!!”

Nothing more to add except from us all in Cambridgeshire Squash

Congratulations – Sammy Chambers – European Champion