Andrew Douglas wins Brooklyn’s Baird E Haney squash tournament
The frustration would have been too much for Andrew Douglas last season. He was trailing 10-6 in his squash match to his friend David Pincus and felt the pressure of the championship round, but the 15-year-old Douglas is different now. He’s more mature and smarter about the game. He knows to stay focused now and to take each point at a time. That’s what he focused on this time around.
“When you are trailing like that it’s easy to let your emotions get the best of you,” Douglas said. “I used to let that happen too much if I was up or down in a match. Now I try not to focus on the result, just focus on each point individually.”
It helped that Douglas had been in a similar position just the day before, when he trailed Wil Hagen 10-6 in the tournament’s semifinal round. Thinking back to that moment, Douglas kept his focus and battled back to eventually take the set 12-10. He used that six point rally as motivation to battle back against Pincus.