Tag: Squash
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Australia make World Semi-Finals in Nimes
Nimes – France, Nov 15: Australia pulled off a sensational upset in today’s first quarter-final of the WSF Women’s World Team Championship in Nimes when former world number one Rachael Grinham and world No17 Donna Urquhart led the team to a 2/1 win over fourth seeds Hong Kong which takes the sixth seeds into the…
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France finishes on top in World Championship pool
Nimes – France, Nov 14: World Championship pool, While Canada and Czech Republic secured places in the last 16 round of the 2012 WSF Women’s World Team Championship in Nimes tonight, it was hosts France who attracted the biggest crowd and rounded off the qualifying stages of the World Squash Federation event in the greatest…
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Hosts upset Netherlands in Nimes
Nimes – France, Nov 13: Grinham, The first upset in the 2012 WSF Women’s World Team Championship came before the biggest crowd surrounding one of the three all-glass courts at La Parnasse Arena in Nimes where hosts France beat Netherlands in a dramatic tie which went to the wire. The historic World Squash Federation event, boasting…
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Top seeds successful in opening exchanges
Nimes – France, Nov 12: top seeds, The top eight seeds showed their strength in the opening encounters of the WSF Women’s World Team Championship in Nimes with 3/0 victories in the afternoon session of the first day’s play in the biennial World Squash Federation event which is being held in France for the first…
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Hosts France Aim To Shine In Nimes
London, Nov 9: Shine, Hosts France, who recorded a best-ever sixth place in the previous championship yet are seeded ninth in the 2012 WSF Women’s World Team Championship, are bidding to reach the last eight again next week in the 18th staging of the biennial World Squash Federation event in the historic city of Nimes.…
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England Seeded To Win 7th Women’s Title
London – England, Oct 30, 2012: England, runners-up in the previous two championships, have been named as top seeds in the 2012 WSF Women’s World Team Championship next month in Nimes, France. A record 26 nations will take part in the biennial World Squash Federation event hosted by Fédération Française de Squash from 12-17 November…
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World Squash Day smashes records with biggest Sports Match on the Planet
London – GBR, Oct 22, 2012: Planet, The sport of Squash is claiming a world record for the biggest sports match in history. More than 40,000 players registered to take part in the World Squash Day Challenge, which demonstrated global support for the sport’s 2020 Olympic bid. More than 800 clubs from over 70 nations joined…
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World Squash Day Makes A Racket To Back 2020
London – GBR, Oct 18, 2012: Squash’s bid for a place in the 2020 Olympics receives a massive boost on Saturday (20 October) when some 40,000 players are expected to take part in a massive worldwide competition on World Squash Day. The biggest fixture in the history of the sport has a 2020 theme as…
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World Champions Say No To Doping
London – GBR, Oct 08, 2012: Nick Matthew and Nicol David, the two world champions in squash, are both backing the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) campaign Say No To Doping. Matthew and David, the Malaysian who won a record sixth women’s world title last year, are spearheading the World Squash Federation support of the campaign…
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Ramachandran Re-Elected WSF President
Stockholm – Sweden, Sept 30, 2012: World Squash Federation President Nagasamy Ramachandran has been re-elected by acclaim for a further four-year term at the 42nd WSF AGM today in Stockholm, Sweden. Ramachandran, from Chennai in India, declared himself honoured to have been given the opportunity of have a further period of presidency. “I have dedicated myself…