ISSUE03-2018InternationalSquashMagazine

ISSN 2042-7611
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INTERNATIONAL
Front Cover
Jahangir Khan voted the greatest
men’s player of all time in far reaching
PSA poll
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CONTENTS
JAHANGIR KHAN VOTED GREATEST PLAYER OF ALL TIME
05 THROUGH A FAR-REACHING POLL CONDUCTED BY THE PROFESSIONAL SQUASH
ASSOCIATION, SQUASH FANS FROM AROUND THE WORLD RECENTLY RECOGNISED
JAHANGIR KHAN’S EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENTS BY VOTING HIM THE GREATEST
MEN’S PLAYER OF ALL TIME
MOSTAFA ASAL & ROWAN REDA ARABY CELEBRATE EGYPTIAN
DOUBLE AT WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
09 WHILST AN EGYPTIAN DOUBLE IN THE WSF WORLD JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL SQUASH
CHAMPIONSHIPS FINALS WAS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION, THE WINNERS WERE NOT AFTER
TOP SEED ROWAN REDA ARABY RETAINED THE WOMEN’S TITLE AS ANTICIPATED, BUT
MOSTAFA ASAL UPSET THE SEEDINGS AFTER DEFEATING FAVOURITE AND DEFENDING
CHAMPION MARWAN TAREK IN STRAIGHT GAMES IN THE MEN’S FINAL AT THE EXPRESS
AVENUE MALL IN THE INDIAN CITY OF CHENNAI
EGYPT WIN HISTORIC SIXTH MEN’S WORLD JUNIOR TITLE
IN CHENNAI
10 SURPASSING A FIVE-TITLE RECORD SET 26 YEARS AGO BY AUSTRALIA, HOT
FAVOURITES EGYPT DEFEATED ENGLAND IN THE FINAL OF THE WSF MEN’S WORLD
JUNIOR TEAM SQUASH CHAMPIONSHIP IN INDIA TO WIN THE BIENNIAL WORLD SQUASH
FEDERATION TITLE FOR A SIXTH TIME SINCE 1994
NICOL DAVID & LEO AU CLAIM GOLD IN ASIAN GAMES
13 AFTER A GLITTERING CAREER IN WHICH SHE HAS WON EVERY PRIZE ON OFFER,
MALAYSIA’S NICOL DAVID COULD HARDLY HAVE DREAMED OF A BETTER WAY OF
CELEBRATING HER 35TH BIRTHDAY THAN BY CLAIMING A RECORD FIFTH ASIAN GAMES
GOLD MEDAL - 20 YEARS AFTER WINNING HER FIRST.
MALAYSIA DENY HONG KONG HISTORIC ASIAN GAMES TEAM
DOUBLE
15 AFTER HONG KONG CHINA DESPATCHED INDIA TO CLINCH THE WOMEN’S ASIAN
GAMES TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP SQUASH TITLE FOR THE FIRST TIME, MALAYSIA DENIED THE
HIGHEST-RANKED TEAM IN THE EVENT A HISTORIC DOUBLE BY COMING FROM BEHIND
TO BEAT THE FAVOURITES IN A DRAMATIC MEN’S FINAL AT THE GELORA BUNG KARNO
SPORTS COMPLEX IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA
COACHING & INSTRUCTION: DEALING WITH PRESSURE,
IT’S ALL IN THE MIND
18 ENGLAND SQUASH NATIONAL PERFORMANCE COACH JOSH TAYLOR EXPLAINS
THAT IN THE WORLD OF PROFESSIONAL SPORT, MARGINS ARE SMALL WHILST THE
REPERCUSSIONS CAN BE LARGE. THE EFFECT OF UNFORCED ERRORS OR BAD JUDGMENTS
CAN NOT ONLY RESULT IN A POOR OUTCOME BUT CAN ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO INCREASED
PRESSURE. SMALL ERRORS MOUNT UP AND DEALING WITH PRESSURE IS CRITICAL TO
ELITE SUCCESS.
ASB SQUASHCOURTS: BENEFITS OF MOVEABLE SIDE WALLS!
21 IF YOU’RE PLANNING TO BUY NEW SQUASH COURTS OR RENOVATE A SQUASH
CENTRE, THERE ARE SEVERAL DECISIONS THAT NEED TO BE MADE. THE FIRST BEING:
SHOULD IT BE A CLUB WHICH IS SOLELY COMMITTED TO SQUASH, WITH A DEDICATED
PROGRAMME AND COACHING TEAM? OR SHOULD IT BE A SPORTS FACILITY WHICH
OFFERS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR OTHER LEISURE ACTIVITIES IN ADDITION TO SQUASH?
EITHER SCENARIO WOULD BENEFIT FROM ASB’S SYSTEM100 MOVABLE SIDEWALLS IN A
MAJOR WAY
RECORD SIXTY-THREE NATIONS REPRESENTED IN WSF WORLD
MASTERS
22 AUSTRALIA EMERGED WITH SIX GOLD MEDALS IN THE WSF WORLD MASTERS SQUASH
CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THE USA STATE OF VIRGINIA - WHERE MEN’S O60 CHAMPION
GEOFFREY DAVENPORT CLAIMED A RECORD-EQUALLING SIXTH WORLD MASTERS TITLE
AND WOMEN’S O45 CHAMPION SARAH FITZ-GERALD EXTENDED HER REMARKABLE
UNBEATEN INTERNATIONAL RECORD SINCE 2001!
PROFESSIONAL SQUASH ASSOCIATION LAUNCH NEW WORLD TOUR
STRUCTURE
27 A NEW WORLD TOUR STRUCTURE WAS INTRODUCED BY THE PROFESSIONAL SQUASH
ASSOCIATION (PSA) IN AUGUST WITH THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN BECOMING THE FIRST
TOURNAMENT TO BE HELD IN THIS NEW ERA FOR PROFESSIONAL SQUASH
WORLD RANKINGS
29 MEN’S & WOMEN’S WORLD RANKINGS AT A GLANCE
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