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Instant Update ISSUE 57 JULY/AUGUST 2015 To: ALL WSF MEMBER NATIONAL FEDERATIONS cc: WSF Regional Vice-Presidents, WSF Committee Members, PSA members, Accredited Companies OLYMPIC GAMES UPDATE QATAR & IRAQ MAKE MEN’S WORLD TEAM DEBUTS In early June WSF submitted squash’s questionnaire answers to the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee (OC), after which we were included amongst the extended list of 26 sports that applied to the OC to be considered by them for nomination. The next stage was that the OC announced a shortlist of eight sports on 22nd June that they will consider nominating. These sports in Qatar and Iraq will make their debuts in the 2015 addition to squash are baseball/softball, bowling, Men's World Team Squash Championship which will karate, roller sports, sports climbing, surfing and take place for the first time in Kuwait, from 12-18 wushu. We will need to present our case to the OC in December. Tokyo in early August. The 25th biennial World Squash Federation Welcoming the news, WSF Championship will feature 25 nations: Argentina, President N Ramachandran Australia, Austria, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, England, commented, 'We are confident Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong China, India, that squash would bring Iraq, Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, something special to the New Zealand, Pakistan, Qatar, Scotland, South Africa, Programme of the Olympic Spain, Switzerland and USA. Games. Squash is a fine England will be defending the title they won for the gladiatorial sport played all over fifth time, but first time since 2007, in France - where the world and features great they beat three-time champions Egypt in a dramatic athleticism, competition and broadcast output; and we final. The 2013 Championship was staged at the Palais are very grateful to the Tokyo 2020 Additional Event de Sports in the Eastern French city of Mulhouse, Programme Panel for including us in the shortlist from where action was held on three side-by-side glass which nominations to the IOC will be made'. show-courts and hosts France won the bronze medal. He added, 'There is a long and strong squash tradition The 2015 line-up also includes eight-time champions in Japan, with the Japanese Squash Association Australia and six times winners Pakistan. Stage one of closing in on its' fiftieth anniversary, Tokyo hosting the championship is a group phase before the knock- some of the biggest professional events in the world a out ties of stage two will decide all the finishing little while ago and now having great juniors such as positions. Satomi Watanabe and Ryunsoke Tsukue who are doing so well at world level. The Olympic Games in Hosts Kuwait will be looking for a top eight finish for 2020 would be perfect timing for them!' the first time, while newcomers Qatar will be moving up to the senior ranks after making their debut in the At the end of September the OC will confirm which World Junior Team Championship in 2012. sports that they are nominating to the IOC for inclusion. There is no defined number, but whatever ____________________________________ sports go forward, squash is making every effort to be on the list! The IOC will review the Tokyo OC’s nominations and next year they will propose which sports they would like the IOC membership to accept at their Rio 2016 meeting. The 45th WSF Conference & AGM takes place 4-6 So, while there is more time to wait for a final decision, November 2015 in the French city of Nice, hosted by everybody can be assured that with the support of the the French Squash Federation. Japanese Squash Association WSF is doing its’ utmost Full details can be seen at: www.ffsquash.com/agm- to encourage the Tokyo OC to include squash as a wsf-2015/ where there are forms to book attendance. nominated sport for their Games. 18 NATIONS WILL CONTEST THE WOMEN’S Lahore who is bidding to become the event's first WORLD JUNIOR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP winner from Pakistan since the legendary Jansher 18 nations - from Khan in 1986. Australia to Zimbabwe The draw for the women's championship predicts an and representing all all-Egyptian semi-final line-up for the third year in a five continents - will row - with 16-year-old world No.18 Habiba Mohamed compete in the 2015 expected to face Cairo-based compatriot Nouran WSF Women's World Gohar, the 17-year-old second seed, in a repeat of the Junior Team Squash 2014 final. Championship, which Both Mariam Metwally, a 3/4 seed from Egypt, and will be held in the Sabrina Sobhy, a 5/8 seed from the USA, are Netherlands for the celebrating fifth successive appearances in the first time in the biennial event's 30-year history. championship. Metwally, an 18-year-old from Action will take place at the Squashtime Centre in Alexandria, has made at least the quarter-finals in all Eindhoven from 31 July to 4 August, following the her previous outings and was runner-up in Poland in World Junior Individual Championships for both Men and Women between 26 and 30 July. 2013 - while New Yorker Sobhy, sister of 2010 The previous Championship took place in 2013 in champion Amanda Sobhy, will hoping to make the Wroclaw, Poland, where Egypt won the title for a fifth quarter-finals for the third time in a row. time, beating two-time runners-up USA in the final. The 2015 World Individual Championships will bring (The 2013 medalling teams are pictured above together more than 170 players from 34 nations. promoting squash’s push for a place on the Olympic ____________________________________ programme). WSF WORLD JUNIOR CIRCUIT: The nations represented in Eindhoven (in alphabetic order) will be Australia, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, July/August 15 England, Finland, France, Germany, Guyana, Hong July Kong China, India, Malaysia, Netherlands, New 09 – 12 Dutch Junior Open Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland, USA and 10-13 Botswana ‘Ali Walker’ Junior Open Zimbabwe. 18 – 26 Caribbean Junior Open Individual Titles up for grabs: 26 – 30 World Junior Individual Championships This year's World Junior Individual Squash 31 - 02 Japan Junior Open Championships titles will be shared by Peru and Egypt August according to the men's and women's draws published 12 – 16 Hong Kong Junior Open by the WSF - with Lima-based Diego Elias and 14 – 18 Iran Junior Open Alexandria-born Habiba Mohamed (pictured opposite) 23 – 27 Asian Junior Ind. Champs expected to retain the titles they won for the first time 28 - 30 Finnish Junior Open last year in Namibia. 31 – 06 Argentina Junior Open The WSF World Junior Championships 2015, ____________________________________ comprising men's and women's under 19 age WSF FACEBOOK PAGE individual events played before the biennial junior The more people who ‘like’ our women's team event takes place from 26-30 July, Facebook page, the better it is for followed by the Women's Team Championship from 31 our status, as we push forward for July to 4 August. Tokyo 2020. Please encourage all Elias made history in 2014 by becoming the sport's your contacts to go to first world champion from Peru. The 18-year-old has www.worldsquash.org and click gone on to pick up three titles on the PSA World Tour ‘like’. and now boasts a career-high world ranking of 46. The Peruvian is expected to meet Egypt's All-Africa Junior champion Amr Arafa in the semi-finals before a final clash with Tayyab Aslam, the No.2 seed from Page 2 AUCKLAND HOSTS WORLD MASTERS GAMES 2017 CERTIFIED EYEWEAR BRANDS 2015 With more athletes than the Olympics, the World The following brands have passed national safety Masters Games is the largest standards and, having applied for WSF Certified listing, multi-sport event on earth. In are the only brands permitted for use in WSF, Regional April 2017, it is heading to one and many national junior events. of the world’s sportiest places When buying new products look for the WSF Certified – Auckland, New Zealand. Tested logo. Brands that become certified will be Squash is one of 28 sports to added to the WSF website and featured here. feature in the 10-day festival of sport that will see 25,000 BRAND NAME APPROVED MODEL competitors from around the world descending upon Black Knight Turbo (AC 114) Auckland. There are no qualification criteria for the Turbo Jnr (AC 114 Jr) World Masters Games – as long as you’re over the Lasers (AC 111) minimum age, you can compete. The Squash Sight Guard (AC 112) Kona (AC 119) competition is open to ages 35+, with male and Kona Junior (AC 119 Jr) female players competing in 5-year age categories, Lynx (AC 122) right up to 80+. Three team categories will also be Stiletto (AC 620) contested – 35+, 45+ and 55+. North Shore Squash Dunlop Dunlop I-ARMOR Club will host the Squash competition – just under 10km north of Auckland Central. Entries will be opening in January 2016 – for more information and to sign up to the newsletter, visit Grays Grays GT Eyewear www.worldmastersgames2017.co.nz ____________________________________ WOMEN’S TOUR PRIZE FUND SHOOTING UP The Women's PSA Tour Harrow Shield Pro R16 has recorded growth of Covet R615 Radar R43 over 28% year-on-year Radar Jr R717JR during the period January-June alone - resulting in an increase of $193K in available prize money compared to the same period in 2014. i-Mask i-Mask Total projected growth for the 2015 calendar year is set to continue at over 28% - a total prize money increase of around $330K - whilst during the same January-June timeframe the Men's Tour grew 6.5%, an increase of almost $100K year-on-year.

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