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  • Kit Aid Primed to start Squash distribution

    London, Aug 02, 2013: Budding squash players around the world will soon be able to take advantage of recycled equipment following the move by LV=SOS Kit Aid into the sport to further boost junior development. More than 130,000 youngsters have benefited from the $5.25 million worth of recycled sports kit that LV=SOS Kit Aid have…

  • Egypt claim record fourth successive title

    Wroclaw – Poland, July 27, 2013: It took just 45 minutes for Habiba Mohamed Ahmed Alymohmed and Nour El Sherbini to win the first two matches in the final of the WSF Women’s World Junior Team Championship to take Egypt into the record books after winning the World Squash Federation title for an historic fourth…

  • Nicol David & Gregory Gaultier head World-Class

    London, July 25, 2013: Malaysia’s world number one Nicol David and world No2 Frenchman Gregory Gaultier head world-class draws in the Squash championships in the 2013 World Games in Cali, Colombia. Some 4500 athletes and officials from more than 100 countries will be competing in the 9th World Games from 25 July to 4 August…

  • Squash: The Ideal Lunchtime Break Sport

    London – July 23, 2013: Squash, which provides an intense and competitive workout over a relatively short time, has been voted the preferred sport of choice when it comes to lunchtime exercise. The study polled 1,867 UK office workers aged between 18 and 65 as part of research into attitudes towards fitness and wellbeing during…

  • World’s Top Juniors Unite Behind Squash 2020 Olympic Bid

    Wroclaw – Poland, July 22, 2013: Despite battling against each other over the past week for the title of ‘world junior squash champion’, the world’s leading teenagers competing in the WSF World Junior Championships in Poland are unequivocally united behind the sport’s bid to join the Olympic Games programme in 2020. “It would be a…

  • El Sherbini World hat-trick makes squash history

    Wroclaw – Poland, July 22, 2013: Egyptian teenager Nour El Sherbini has become the world’s most successful junior squash player of all-time after winning the WSF Women’s World Junior Championship title for a record third time. Victory over compatriot Mariam Ibrahim Metwally in the final of the World Squash Federation event at the Hasta La…

  • World Championships to climax in Egyptian double

    Wroclaw – Poland, July 21, 2013: Elhammamy, For the third year in a row, all-Egyptian finals will bring the WSF World Junior Squash Championships to a climax after more than 160 players have battled over the past five days in the men’s and women’s World Squash Federation events at the Hasta La Vista Club in the…

  • Fallows & Al Tamimi in bid to stop Egyptian double

    Wroclaw – Poland, July 19, 2013: Only Englishman Richie Fallows and Qatar’s Abdulla Mohd Al Tamimi stand in the way of an Egyptian double in the WSF World Junior Squash Championships in Poland after today’s quarter-final action in the World Squash Federation event at the Hasta La Vista Club in the historical city of Wroclaw.…

  • Egyptians dominate championships quarter-finals

    Wroclaw – Poland, July 18, 2013: After a further day of action in the WSF World Junior Squash Championships in Poland, Egypt has reinforced its status as the powerhouse nation of junior world squash by securing three places in the men’s quarter-finals and six slots in the women’s last eight of the World Squash Federation…

  • Britons Lead upsets in World Junior Championships

    Wroclaw – Poland, July 17, 2013: After two rounds of men’s action in the WSF World Junior Squash Championships today in the Polish city of Wroclaw, unseeded Britons Angus Gillams, Lyell Fuller and Joel Makin joined Egyptian Omar Elatmas in securing unexpected places in the last 16 round at the new 20-court Hasta La Vista…