The World Squash Federation has radically altered the process by which World Championships and Conferences are allocated.
Until now, member nations wanting to host have simply applied for the opportunity. The result of this has been no certainty that all regions of the world will have a share, secure a range of events over time, or be able to lay plans several years ahead should they wish.
The WSF has now introduced a new forward plan in which the five regions of the world have been allocated all the Federation's events and conferences right through to the year 2020.
In 2014, for example, Pan America will stage the Women's World Team Championship; while Europe will take the WSF Development Conference and WSF Federations Conference; Africa will host the Men's World Junior Individual & Team Championships (with the Women's Junior Individual Championship alongside); Asia will have the World Doubles and WSF AGM; and Oceania the World Masters.
In the following year, the 2015 Men's World Team Championship and WSF Referees Conference will be in the Pan American region; while Asia will host the Women's World Junior Individual & Team Championships (with the Men's Junior Individual); etc.
Countries interested in hosting an event or conference that has been allocated to their region will apply to become the choice of the region, and so be put forward to WSF for approval.
"It's a fairer spread, with more certainty - and better all round," commented WSF Chief Executive Andrew Shelley.
In an additional change of procedure, countries can no longer bid without specifying the actual venues and hotel, so that accessibility and suitability can be assured prior to acceptance.
Issued by Howard Harding on behalf of the World Squash Federation
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WSQ 6015 3 February 2011
The Indian junior boys team created history when they downed arch rivals and defending title holders Pakistan in the 15th Asian Junior Team Championships held in Colombo, Sri Lanka to win this prestigious title for the first time in Indian squash history since the inception of the Asian Championships in 1981.
Playing to a packed crowd at the Sri Lankan Air Force base squash venue, the Indian players comprising Ramit Tandon, Abhishek Pradhan, Mahesh Mangaonkar and Vrishab Kotian rose to the occasion as they outmanoeuvred and out played the mighty Pakistanis.
The order of play for the day was 1-2-3.
Our no. 1 player and captain Ramit Tandon who had been untested so far confirmed that he is certainly the most improved Indian squash player in recent times. Playing Danish Atlas Khan the Pakistani no. 1, the match lasted 90 min and went the distance with Ramit displaying his amazing skills. Winning the first game 11 – 7 with his comprehensive finish shots Ramit was pumped up. He lost the 2nd game 6-11, but came back strongly in the 3rd winning it by the narrowest margins 11-9. Danish then took the 4th game 11-8, setting a tough 5th game ahead. The 2 played great squash and the score was neck to neck till 6-6, then Ramit jumped to a 9-6 lead. Danish then fought back to level the score and 9-9. The next two were blistering rallies with both players moving to every inch of the court. Ramit finally won the game 11-9 with a backhand volley drop.
It was a great match and the crowds were entertained to a high level of squash, which kept everyone glued to their seats until the very last point.
Major (R) S. Maniam, Consultant Coach - SRFI immediately after the match expressed “I have not seen skills at this level amongst any Indian players in the last decade.”
Abhishek Pradhan the no. 2 player was next on with Nasir Iqbal. As much as Abhishek tried running the 4 corners of the court retrieving many shots he could, in the end he was outplayed and lost 0-3.
The decider saw 2 lanky players in action, Mahesh Mangaonkar and Sadam Ul Haq.
From the onset Mahesh stamped his authority and did not give the Pakistani any hopes of winning this tie. Showing true class Mahesh romped home 3-0 as the elated Indian team jumped for joy.
“With this victory in hand, India now are the proud owners of 3 of the 4 Asian junior titles. 6 months ago, Ravi Dixit and Dipika Pallikal won the Asian Junior Individual Championship (Boys and Girls under 19 resp). Today we have won the Junior Boys Team,” said the jubilant Secretary General, SRFI – Srivatsan Subramaniam.
“This certainly augurs well for India squash, all the hard work put in by the players with the unvarying support from the federation and the government is producing the desired results” said Major (R) S. Maniam, Consultant Coach - SRFI.
“This is certainly a dream come true. I am lost for words to express my delight. Ramit was certainly the hero of the day; he has worked so very hard for this. It certainly is a great way to start the year,” said Cyrus Poncha, National Coach.
Final Results – India beat Pakistan 2-1
Ramit Tandon bt Danish Atlas Khan 11/7, 6/11, 11/9, 8/11, 11/9
Abhishek Pradhan lost to Nasir Iqbal 4/11, 7/11, 3/11
Mahesh Mangaonkar bt Sadam Ul Haq11/7, 11/2, 11/6
Dear Friends,
Wishing you a very Happy & Prosperous New Year 2011
The newly formed committee of the Delhi Squash Association is operational from January 1, 2011 and comprises of the following:
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| Name |
| Mr. | Samir Thukral |
| Ms. | Bhuvneshwari Kumari |
| Mr. | Yoginder Singh |
| Dr. | Bharatinder Singh |
| Mr. | Nikhil Pant |
| Mr. | Arjun Khanna |
For any interactions relating to tournaments/ administrative issues/ others please contact Mr. Arjun Khanna.
Correspondence Address:
Delhi Squash Association
32, 1st Floor, Community Centre
New Friends Colony
New Delhi 110065
Email address : dsa.delhi2011@gmail.com.
Thanking You
Yours Faithfully
Arjun Khanna
10th December, 2010
HAMDARD DELTON
1. This year it is proposed to hold Hamdard Delton Squash Tournament from 22nd to 25th Jan. 2011. In case some matches are pending it can be extended till 26.1.2011.
1. Aqib Hanif
2. Sheikh Saqib
3. Shoaib Hassan
4. Aurangzeb Mehmund
5. Ali Bukhari
6. Malik Umar Balaj
7. Tayyab Aslam
8. Amaad Farid
9. Muhammad Saleem
1. Mr. Shahzad Saeed Cheema
2. Mr. Gogi Alauddin
3. Mr. Abdul Rashid
The above is a broad format and there can be some changes as per decision of tournament committee.
Delhi Squash Association
(Affiliated to The Squash Racket Federation of India)
E – 348, Greater Kailash – 2, New Delhi – 110048.
E-mail – squashdelhi@gmail.com
11th October, 2010
CIRCULAR
Kindly note that the selection trails for final selection of players for the junior national teams for 2010 for both boys and girls will be done on 16th and 17th of October, 2010 at Siri Fort Complex, New Delhi.
Shri Bharatinder Singh, Chairman, Selection Committee is busy with the Commonwealth Games. He has, therefore, not been able to make the detailed programme for the same and has promised to do the same in a day or two.
This is for your advance information.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
for DELHI SQUASH ASSOCIATION
V.K. GOEL
PRESIDENT
The theme for this year's World Squash Day on Saturday 6 November is to encourage clubs and associations all over the globe to increase playing numbers.
So, on November 6th, the challenge for every club in the world is to attract:
20 new junior players, and
10 new adult members
World Squash Day is supported by the World Squash Federation (WSF), and Chief Executive Andrew Shelley says: "This is a wonderful idea to create an explosive worldwide rise in participation levels.
"Countries like Egypt are leading the way when it comes to producing wave after wave of fantastic junior players but the springboard for this is the sheer number of juniors at nearly every club in the country.
"If other nations wish to compete at the highest level then the starting point is to increase junior participation levels - as part of the main thrust to ensure that the lifeblood of our sport, the next generation, keeps expanding of course."
As leading squash players from all over the world arrive to compete in the Commonwealth Games in India, the plan for World Squash Day 2010 is to create a platform to encourage stars of the future.
World Squash Day founder Alan Thatcher, chairman of the Kent SRA in England, added: "Squash has a massive worldwide following with some 20 million players enjoying the game in more than 120 countries.
"Participation levels are increasing in a huge number of countries but here in the UK the game has suffered because of court closures. However, it has been heartening to see that trend being reversed in many regions.
"The single most important thing that we can do for the sport is to bring on a new generation of squash players to safeguard the future of the sport.
"Therefore it is essential that clubs and squash associations all over the globe get behind World Squash Day to produce a significant increase in participation levels."
Last year World Squash Day generated a massive global show of support for squash's Olympic bid.
This year clubs and federations can announce their activities on the event website www.worldsquashday.com
Thatcher added: "The website has a list of ideas for clubs to get involved and organise events to showcase our fantastic sport."
Follow WSD on Facebook: www.facebook.com/worldsquashday
Further information from Alan Thatcher alan@squashuk.com
Issued by Howard Harding on behalf of the WSFLed by nine players from both the men's and women's world top 20 rankings, the cast list for next week's Commonwealth Games Squash championships in Delhi will be world-class - with Malaysia's world number one Nicol David seeded to win the women's singles gold medal and England's Nick Matthew, the world No2, expected to take men's gold.
Players from 27 countries will compete in the two singles events which get underway at the superb new eleven-court Siri Fort Complex - which features an all-glass centre court - on Monday 4 October. Following the Gold and Bronze medal play-offs on Friday 8 October, the three Doubles championships (Men, Women & Mixed) will take place from Saturday 9th to Wednesday 13th October.
New medallists will be certain in the Women's Singles event - with no previous winners in the field, and after Nicol David finished only in fourth place in Melbourne in 2006. It was the 27-year-old from Penang's third successive appearance in the event following her debut in her home country in the sport's first appearance in the Games in 1998.
Nicol David, who celebrated her 50th successive month as world number one this month, is in sparkling form after winning a record-equalling fifth World Open title in Egypt earlier this month.
"After my win at the World Open in Sharm El Sheikh I'm looking forward to bringing that over to Delhi for the Commonwealth Games," said the Malaysian on the eve of her departure for Delhi. "The Games will be a completely different atmosphere and being part of the Malaysian contingent will be a nice boost to do my best out there for the country.
"The Commonwealth Games is always special and I will go all out for it!"
Nick Matthew is also enjoying the best form of his career this year after becoming the first player to win three PSA Super Series championships. But, after becoming England's first world number one for six years in June, the 30-year-old from Sheffield suffered a minor setback when illness forced him to withdraw from the British Grand Prix, the biggest event in Europe this year, in England earlier this month.
"I'm fully fit now and looking forward to being in Delhi," said Matthew as he joined his England team-mates for the flight to India. "I hear that the atmosphere in the England camp has been buzzing and we all can't wait to get out there and get amongst it now.
"On a personal point of view, it will be my second Commonwealth Games - and the first one was among the highlights of my career, so I can't wait to get playing, especially after missing the British Grand Prix.
"Hopefully the enforced rest has done me good," added the gold favourite.
Whilst a new gold medallist is assured in both the men's and women's events, Australia's David Palmer will be hoping to win his third successive medal after clinching Bronze in England in 2002 and Silver on home soil four years ago.
One his country's most successful players of all-time, Palmer celebrated ten complete years in the world's top 10 last month - and earlier this month rediscovered his former form by reaching the semi-finals of the British Grand Prix in Manchester.
Despite losing to Egypt's Ramy Ashour, the reigning world number one and the event's eventual champion, Palmer took positives from his performance: "It's given me encouragement," said the two-time World Open champion. "I haven't been able to play a match like that for the last four or five months.
"The Commonwealth Games is very important to me - and it looks as if I'm back in form. It's better late than never! "So I can go back home and be happy now.
"But it's going to be very tough in Delhi," admitted the 34-year-old fifth seed.
Men's 1st round draw:
[1] Nick Matthew (ENG) bye
Mohd Nafiizwan Adnan (MAS) v Hartaj Bains (KEN)
[10] Aamir Atlas Khan (PAK) v Masud Rana (BAN)
Colin Ramasra (TRI) v Jules Snagg (SVG)
[7] Cameron Pilley (AUS) v Joe Chapman (IVB)
Siddharth Suchde (IND) v Michael Hopkins (JEY)
[14] Ryan Cuskelly (AUS) v Sandeep Jangra (IND)
Bradley Hindle (MLT) v Navin Samarasinghe (SRI)
[3] Peter Barker (ENG) v Kelvin Ndhlovu (ZAM)
Alan Clyne (SCO) v Nicholas Kyme (BER)
[11] Saurav Ghosal (IND) v Ian Rukunya (UGA)
Patrick Chifunda (ZAM) v Lyall Paterson (SCO)
[8] Stewart Boswell (AUS) v Chris Small (SCO)
Harinder Pal Sandhu (IND) v Shopon Pervez (BAN)
[13] Farhan Mehboob (PAK) v Samuel Kyagulanyi (UGA)
Yasir Butt (PAK) v Christopher Binnie (JAM)
Lefika Ragontse (BOT) v Harry Leitch (SCO)
[16] Campbell Grayson (NZL) v Ray Simbule (ZAM)
Robin Clarke (CAN) v Othniel Bailey (SVG)
[6] Mohd Azlan Iskandar (MAS) v James Bentick (SVG)
Chris Simpson (GGY) v Aubrey Taulo (MAW)
[15] Martin Knight (NZL) v Hardeep Reel (KEN)
Danish Atlas Khan (PAK) v Bruce Burrowes (JAM)
[4] Daryl Selby (ENG) v Michael Rucklinger (PNG)
Lekgotla Mosope (BOT) v Shawn Simpson (BAR)
[9] Ong Beng Hee (MAS) v Lazarus Chiluba Chilufya (ZAM)
Andrew McDougall (CAN) v Brian Okumu (UGA)
[5] David Palmer (AUS) v Julius Taulo (MAW)
Shawn Delierre (CAN) v Henry Birch (GGY)
[12] Shahier Razik (CAN) v Michael Kawooya (UGA)
Ivan Yuen (MAS) v James Matewere (MAW)
[2] James Willstrop (ENG) bye
Women's 1st round draw:
[1] Nicol David (MAS) bye
Damindhi Udangawa (SRI) bye
[15] Joshna Chinappa (IND) bye
Sharon Wee (MAS) bye
[5] Laura Massaro (ENG) bye
Lisa Aitken (SCO) bye
[16] Alana Miller (CAN) bye
Anwesha Reddy (IND) bye
[4] Madeline Perry (NIR) bye
Sharya Guruge (SRI) v Safina Madhani (KEN)
[13] Lisa Camilleri (AUS) bye
Frania Gillen-Buchert (SCO) v Ashley Khalil (GUY)
[6] Kasey Brown (AUS) bye
Miranda Ranieri (CAN) v Kate Cadigan (JEY)
[11] Delia Arnold (MAS) bye
Kerrie Sample (TRI) v Issey Norman-Ross (GGY)
Jeannine Cowie (JEY) v Barbara Stubbings (PNG)
[12] Joelle King (NZL) bye
Nicolette Fernandes (GUY) v Khaaliqa Nimji (KEN)
[8] Donna Urquhart (AUS) bye
Natalie Dodd (GGY) v Stephanie Edmison (CAN)
[14] Dipika Pallikal (IND) bye
Samantha Cornett (CAN) bye
[3] Alison Waters (ENG) bye
Zoe Barr (NIR) bye
[9] Low Wee Wern (MAS) bye
Amelia Pittock (AUS) bye
[7] Jaclyn Hawkes (NZL) bye
Anaka Alankamony (IND) bye
[10] Sarah Kippax (ENG) bye
Zephanie Curgenven (GGY) bye
[2] Jenny Duncalf (ENG) bye
28th September, 2010
In further continuation to my note dated 27th October 2010, Shri Arjun Khanna has been further co-opted as an additional member for the selection of the Delhi State National Team.
Thanking you,
Vijay Goel
President, DSA
(Affiliated to The Squash Racket Federation of India)
E – 348, Greater Kailash – 2, New Delhi – 110048.
E-mail – squashdelhi@gmail.com
27th September, 2010
DELHI TEAM FOR PARTICIPATION IN ALL INDIA JUNIOR INTER-STATE SQUASH TOURNAMENT FROM 29th OCT. 2010 TO 2ND NOV. 2010
We had sent a circular on 17.9.2010 wherein we had asked all squash players desirous of taking part in above tournament to send their names to Delhi Squash Association.
A number of names have been received.
JP Open is taking place from 1.10.2010 to 4.10.2010 at Greater Noida. Most of the squash playing children are taking part in the above tournament.
It has been decided that a tentative team will be selected by 6.10.2010 by the selection committee consisting of Shri Bharatinder Singh, Chairman, Shri Vijay Goel, Shri Lalit Advani & Sri Nikhil Pant. (they can co-opt any other member if they so like) based on the performance at JP Open and the past performance of the children.
If any children who are not satisfied with the selection of the children made by the committee should inform Mr. Sharad Sharma by 10th October, 2010 and send a payment of Rs.250/- by way of Demand Draft in favour of Delhi Squash Association or by cash.. The Committee will then fix a date for a trial and trial will be done accordingly.
Delhi Squash Association
