Squash in the Media

Roger Federer once again throws his weight behind the Squash 2020 campaign. [...]

England's squash players retained their men's and women's team titles at the European Championships in Amsterdam. [...]

Empty retail spaces across the UK are being converted into temporary squash courts. The "pop-up" squash court is part of a campaign being launched this week, called The Big Hit. [...]

The Boar's Head Sports Club in Charlottesville has hosted professional men and women's tennis tournaments and pro squash could be next. The club has a brand new 12-million dollar squash facility that is already regarded as one of the best in the nation. [...]

Andre Agassi, Kim Clijsters and Stefan Edberg have followed fellow tennis legend Roger Federer in backing Squash to be added to the Olympic Games programme in 2020. [...]

Federico Franco, the President of Paraguay, unveiled the world’s latest National Squash Centre when he cut the ribbon to open the Centro Nacional de Squash – Paraguay in the country’s capital Asunción. [...]

Article courtesy of the World Squash Federation World Squash Federation President N Ramachandran has praised the Xodus 7 Continent Challenge as an initiative of ‘epic proportions’ and one which has given the sport’s Olympic bid a great boost. Peter Nicol MBE and fellow former professional Tim Garner launched the Xodus 7 Continent Challenge in Port [...]

Peter Nicol MBE and Tim Garner’s incredible week of playing squash around the world ended on a high in the US on Saturday. [...]

Natalie Grainger and Chelsea Piers anxiously await the arrival of Peter and Tim as New York plays host to the final leg of the 7 Continent Challenge. [...]

Article courtesy of the World Squash Federation The WSF has appointed world-renowned International Academy of Sports Science and Technology (AISTS) to conduct research that will provide a framework to help encourage more players and ex-players to become qualified as referees. The research will also look at new options that will help raise officiating standards generally. The two-phase project, which [...]

Seven games of squash, in seven days, across seven continents as former champs raise awareness of the sport’s bid to be included in the 2020 Olympic Games. [...]

England's world number two squash player Laura Massaro believes she can overhaul seven-time world champion Nicol David at the summit of the game. [...]

Pakistan's top female squash player used to have to pretend she was a boy. When Maria Toorpakai's secret was finally revealed she had to choose between the sport she loved and her family's safety. [...]

Aussie rugby league legend Brad Fittler has shown his support for Squash’s bid for a place in the Olympic Games. A number of high profile sports figures and celebrities have ‘‘backed the bid’ recently as the campaign to get Squash in the Olympics continues to build momentum, including tennis star Roger Federer, top Indian cricketers [...]

Article courtesy of WSA The WSA World Tour are pleased to announce that former WSA player Suzie Pierrepont will take up a new role within the WSA as North American Tour Director. Back in February, U.S. Squash announced that this year’s US Open would be the first World Series event in squash to hold equal prize money for both WSA [...]

The WSF World Junior Squash Championships are taking place in July in a country of unprecedented expansion for the sport. “Squash is the fastest growing sport in Poland,” says Maciek Maciantowicz, Vice President of the Polish Squash Federation. [...]

On the 7th September in Buenos Aires, the IOC will make important decisions regarding the 2020 Olympic Games. On top of electing a new President and deciding which city should host the Games, the Olympic top chiefs will decide which sport will be added to the 2020 programme. [...]

Almost unbeatable in the sport she describes as "boxing with rackets" world champion Nicol David is proving a skilled saleswoman too as the face of squash's bid to join the Olympics. [...]

The ground-breaking sports kit recycling scheme, LV=SOS Kit Aid, has launched an appeal to help give 35,000 disadvantaged young people from the UK and abroad the chance to participate in grassroots sports in 2013. The campaign target was unveiled in Canary Wharf, London where squash was announced as the third sport to support the [...]

Maria Toorpakai Wazir is a star squash player with a promising international career. Born in Waziristan, a highly conservative region of Pakistan, she had to disguise herself as a boy when she took up the sport - and later received ominous threats for playing in shorts. [...]

Nick Matthew and James Willstrop on Trans World Sport.  A profile of the two leading British Squash players [...]

Squash remains confident that its bid to join the Olympic programme for 2020 will be successful, despite the dynamics of the race having been changed dramatically after wrestling was dropped from the list of core sports. [...]

Squash legend Jahangir Khan (pictured with Ramy Ashour, winner of last week’s Kuwait PSA Cup) has been elected to the Pakistan Olympic Association. [...]

Article courtesy of AFP News by Pirate Irwin Squash’s evolution as a TV-friendly sport, played against some of the world’s most dramatic backdrops, should serve it well in its bid to become an Olympic sport in 2020, its federation president told AFP on Friday. Squash lost out to rugby sevens and golf in the campaign [...]

When the U.S. Junior Squash Championships get under way Friday in New Haven, Conn., it might look like the same old laid-back, genteel sport that's been played for almost two centuries. [...]