This special event recap was written by Tournament Chair Viktor Berg
The Vancouver Lawn PSA Open presented by Richardson Wealth took place October 26 to 29. The tournament included a $12,000 prize pool for the PSA Open draw which attracted participants from Argentina, England, Germany, Mexico, USA and BC’s own Ryan Picken. Along with the PSA event, the tournament featured amateur draws including juniors, doubles and adults with 96 participants playing in various draws. It was a fabulous week of squash, great energy and a buzz around the squash area.
The tournament concluded Saturday with the PSA finals being contested between the top two seeds Arturo Salazar from Mexico vs Timothy Brownell from USA. The #2 seed and current US champion Timothy Brownell won 3-0.
Amateur Draw results:
Draw A
1st Ryan Picken
2nd Miled Zarazua
Draw B
1st Bevan Moss
2nd Jet Li
Draw C
1st Isaak Song
2nd Matlias Herrero
Draw D
1st Robert Pacey
2nd Justin Currie
Draw E
1st Steven Wang
2nd Hank Wang
Draw F
Aaron Yao
Amardeep Dhingra
Women’s Singles
1st Liz Macey
2nd Angela Hong
Open Doubles
1st Viktor Berg & Drew Henderson
2nd Morgan Latremouille & Grant Bergman
Div 1 Doubles
1st Mark Levey & Jongho Kim
2nd Snehal Lakhani & Hugh Woolley
Women’s Doubles
1st Christine Yablonka & Monica Szpak
2nd Laura Ramsay & Penny Wedd
U19 Juniors
1st Ethan Chan
2nd Jack Steele
Congratulations to everyone for an incredible tournament! To view a full list of draws and results, please visit the Vancouver Lawn PSA Open presented by Richardson Wealth.
The tournament would like to thank the event sponsors, donors and patrons.
- Richardson Wealth – Tyler Steele, Portfolio Manager, Investment Advisor https://web.richardsonwealth.com/web/jsk.partners/your-team
- Traslo West Contracting Inc. James Woodcock – Full-service general contractor https://www.traslowest.ca/
- Promosapien – Stacy Hall https://www.promosapien.ca/
- Arbutus Furniture & Closets – Chris Cornish https://arbutus.com/
- Steamworks Brewing – Oscar Pottinger https://steamworks.com/
Patrons and Donors
- Tom Urban family
- Hugh Woolley
- Turner Meakin (Brain Meakin)
- Petit Ami Coffee (Caitlin Hungerford)
- Max Hakh
- Unsquashable (Josh Struthers)
- Rogue Kitchen & Wetbar (Carl McCreath)
- Rod Pennington – National Bank
Squash BC would like to thank Tournament Director Viktor Berg, the Vancouver Lawn Tennis & Badminton Club, and all event volunteers and supporters for putting on such an amazing event.