Logan hosted a top-level squash tournament over the weekend, which brought elite and community competition to Daisy Hill across four days.
The tournament, 2026 Specsavers Queensland Open, ran from 22 to 26 April at Daisy Hill Squash and Racquet Club, and featured a Professional Squash Association (PSA) Satellite event alongside the graded Queensland Open championships.
Daisy Hill Squash and Racquet Club coach Kym Tracey-Patte said the competition, presented by the City of Logan and Squash Queensland, brought together top-level athletes and local players across two formats.
“It’s actually the Queensland Open Championships for the year, but we’re running virtually two events side by side,” Ms Tracey-Patte said.
“The PSA is the Professional Squash Association, so they’re our higher-ranked players, either international and national players that come through and will be competing.”
Ms Tracey-Patte said the second event opened the door for broader community participation and was open for anyone competing for a Queensland title to play.
“The secondary event is the 2026 Tecnifibre Graded Queensland Open, which includes Individual, Doubles, Junior Novice, and Racquetball divisions,” she said.
Local players featured strongly in the PSA draw, including Daisy Hill coaches, Brendan McDonald, currently ranked number one in the men’s squash competition, and Kurstyn Mather, currently ranked fourth in the women’s squash competition.
“Brendan has represented Australia at the 2024 World Squash Team Championships and on the Australian University Team, while also competing in national and international professional individual tournaments,” Ms Tracey-Patte said.
“Also competing is Amity Alarcos, currently ranked fourth in Papua New Guinea, who trains here at Daisy Hill while studying in Australia.”
“In the PSA Men’s field is Bryan Lim, a Malaysian player, who is based at Daisy Hill.”
In his event on day two of the tournament, Mr McDonald won his match against Matthew Finitsis in three sets.
In the quarter finals, Mr McDonald defeated Bryce McMullen in three sets but was defeated in the next round, the semi-finals, in five sets by Josh Larkin.
Kurstyn Mather and Amity Alarcos both qualified for quarter-final matches, which they both lost.
Bryan Lim won the tournament in the men’s field, adding another to his already 6 PSA Satellite titles. Madison Lyon won first in the women’s tournament.
Ms Tracey-Patte said the event had drawn strong interest, a total of 139 players registered to play in the event.
“We’ve got a lot of our locals playing. They’re our elite players that are actually based at Daisy Hill,” she said.
The tournament returned after a two-year break, with the City of Logan backing its revival.
“The squash Queensland event hasn’t happened for two years… we’re hosting it again, so it’s had a break,” Ms Tracey-Patte said.
“We’re just trying to get it moving, get the numbers back up again, and get a lot more women to play in the higher-ranked ones as well.”
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