Articles By: Aisling Blake

Aisling Blake is a professional squash player representing Ireland. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 24 in June 2010. She had a strong junior career, including winning the Belgian Junior Open and Irish Nationals several times. She has based herself in Amsterdam since finishing a business degree in 2004.

Asia Adieu

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 | Published in Aisling Blake, Star Blogs
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Aisling Blake blogs about her back-to-back tournaments in Asia.

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Doing the Egyptian Thing

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 | Published in Aisling Blake, Star Blogs

I’m just got back from Egypt where I was playing in the Alexandria Open for the past couple of days. I got to my seeding before coming up against Omneya Abdel Kawy, the no.1 seed. Played well but she took the match 3-1 on the day. On arriving in this country, I always have to give myself half a day to get used to the driving and organized chaos of the traffic there. To drive [...]

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Tales from Texas

Sat, 16 May 2009 | Published in Aisling Blake, Star Blogs

Hi guys, I’m just back from Texas after competing in the event that’s currently on there. Unfortunately I didn’t have the best result there losing to an English player, Emma Beddoes, but I did enjoy my stay there nonetheless. As Nicol is still playing and can talk you through the squash aspect I thought I’d take some time to blog about my stay there. Having never been to Texas before I readily believed the stereotypes: [...]

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