Dunlop British Open Squash Championships, 6-9 May ‘08

Women’s 2nd qualifying round:
Madeline Perry (IRL) bt Joshna Chinappa (IND) 9-4, 10-8, 9-1 (25m)
Kasey Brown (AUS) bt Dipika Pallikal (IND) 9-2, 9-0, 9-1 (24m)

Women’s 1st qualifying round:
Joshna Chinappa (IND) bt Kirsty McPhee (ENG) 10-9, 0-9, 9-2, 9-7 (42m)
Dipika Pallikal (IND) bt Kerri Shields (IRL) 9-4, 9-1, 9-3 (23m)

Men’s 1st qualifying round:
Ben Ford (ENG) bt Siddharth Suchde (IND) 11-7, 5-11, 11-6, 11-6 (53m)
Shaun le Roux (ENG) bt Ritwik Bhattacharya (IND) 11-7, 4-11, 11-9, 7-11, 11-9 (65m)

May Rankings - PSA / WISPA

Men
53 Saurav Ghosal 
58 Ritwik Bhattacharya 
119 Siddharth Suchde
127 Gaurav Nandrajog
143 Harinder Pal Sandhu
159 Naresh Kumar
191 Parth Sharma

Women
35 Joshna Chinappa
57 Dipika Pallikal
132 Anwesha Reddy
158 Surbhi Misra

Mahesh Wins German Junior

Mahesh Mangaonkar won the German Junior open defeating Oliver Holland 3-2. Anaka loses to Amanda Sobhy from USA (3-2) in the girls u15. Ravi Dixit (Bu17), Raghav Mehrotra (Bu13) & Anwesha Reddy (Gu17) all secured the 3rd position.

Squash On IOC Shortlist For 2016 Olympic Games

Issued by Howard Harding on behalf of WSF

Following extensive global campaigning by the World Squash Federation since the sport narrowly missed out being added to the London 2012 programme, the WSF has received news from the IOC that Squash has been included on the shortlist of sports under consideration for the 2106 Olympic Games.

In a letter to Jahangir Khan, IOC Sports Director Christophe Dubi congratulated and thanked the WSF President “most sincerely for the tremendous work you accomplished in order to complete the questionnaire for IOC Recognised International Federations”.

Kuwait Open Squash Championship, Kuwait City, Kuwait

$200,000 PSA Super Series Platinum championship - the richest squash event of the year to date - at the KSF Squash Complex in Kuwait City.

1st qualifying round:
Ritwik Bhattacharya bt Aaron Frankcomb (AUS) 11-4, 11-9, 11-6 (53m)
Saurav Ghosal bt Mohammed Abdulrahman Al Tawari (KUW) 11-5, 11-0, 11-3 (29m)

Qualifying finals:
Julian Illingworth (USA) bt Ritwik Bhattacharya 11-7, 11-4, 11-9 (42m)
Daryl Selby (ENG) bt Saurav Ghosal 11-8, 5-11, 11-5, 11-6 (65m)

Malaysian Star Nicol David Carries Olympic Torch In KL

Issued by Howard Harding on behalf of WSF

Figureheads from the world of Squash continued to play their part in the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in Malaysia as the iconic flame continued its high-profile journey around the globe.

World Squash Federation Patron Tunku Tan Sri Imran Tuanku Ja’afar - who is also President of the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) - expressed his excitement at being the first torchbearer on Monday’s Kuala Lumpur leg of the global torch relay.

Squash catches ’em young!

Thursday April 17 2008 CHENNAI: There is innocence toddling in every inch of the ICL Squash Academy, now replete with the gentle bustle and bubbly chirps of 32 tots, who have enrolled for the summer camp.
Some might bloom, some might wither, but they have all made their first gentle strides into the world of squash.
For a whole lot of them, this is their first taste of squash. Neither as popular as cricket nor as glamorous as tennis, squash might not have swayed their fancy.
So the first shot of the course was to get them acquainted with the game. Chief coach Cyrus Poncha’s lecture on basic strokes in squash,which was followed by a video footage of the same, featuring SRFI consultant coach Major Maniam and World No. 1 player Nicol David. “Later,we demonstrated the shots on the court,” explained Poncha.

Chennai To Host World Doubles Championships In December

The 2008 World International Doubles Squash Championships, which will be staged in India in December, will be the first international tournament to feature the new wider doubles court.

The 4th staging of the Championships, which were inaugurated in 1997 in Hong Kong, will take place at the ICL Squash Academy in Chennai, from 15-20 December.

Sidd loses in quarters

After - incredibly - becoming the sole seed to survive the first round of the Roma Est Squash Open, Hungary’s Mark Krajcsak continued his exclusive form in the $10,000 PSA Tour squash event in Italy’s capital city Rome to win his quarter-final clash at the Shopping Centre Roma Est in straight games.

The 24-year-old third seed from Budapest beat Indian qualifier Siddharth Suchde 11-7, 11-8, 11-8 in exactly one hour. In the 1st round Sidd defeated 8th seeded Luca Mastrostefano (ITA) 11-3, 11-2, 11-5 (20m).

COAS International Squash Championship, Islamabad, Pakistan

1st round:
[5] Saurav Ghosal (IND) bt Mohd Shoaib Hassan (PAK) 11-8, 11-4, 11-7 (30m)

Quarter-finals:
[4] Aamir Atlas Khan (PAK) bt [5] Saurav Ghosal (IND) 11-9, 11-3, 11-10 (3-1) (26m)