Harborough Squash Club hosted an England Squash Bronze Sanctioned Open Event for U17 Boys and Girls. They had a strong entry with 24 boys entries and 9 girls, coming from a far a field as Southampton and Doncaster. Up for grabs were National ranking points.

In the girls event, local girl Mari Taylor reached the semi finals, but she was up against the event 2^nd seed, Emily Peach from Doncaster. Peach, ranked 22 places above Taylor in the National rankings, proved to be too strong on the day. The other semi final was an all Warwickshire event with top seed Alicia Mead playing 3rd seed Ellie Atkinson. Mead went through, winning 3-1. So the final was between Mead (ranked 8^th nationally) and Peach. Mead took a convincing first game, 11-3 before Peach found some form just loosing out 9-11 in the second. This gave the Yorkshire girl some confidence and she fought back winning the next game 11-8. However, Mead made less mistakes than her opponent to take the fourth game and the match 11-9.

The Peach family's hopes therefore rested on Emily's brother, James who is ranked at 4 Nationally at U15 level, and 32^nd at U17, and was top seed in the boy's event. He got through the rounds beating local youngster Jack Turney in a tight quarter final match.  Peach was up against fellow Yorkshire man Oliver Turner in the Final. Turner took out the number 2 and 4 seeds to reach the final. In a highly competitive final, Peach went a game up but had to fight for it, winning it 12-10. Turner then came back to take the next two games, 11-7, 11-9. Peach then came back with a maturity above his age to take the final two games, 11-5, 11-2.