The Professional Squash Association (PSA) appointed brand identity and experiential agency, Greenspace, to refresh and re-invigorate the PSA Tour Super Series.
Australia and Namibia declared their intent to host Professional Squash Association's World Tour events in 2010.
The Women's World Team Squash Championship will be streamed live by both the World Squash Federation and online broadcaster 247.tv.
Mr N Ramachandran has been appointed as the first Indian President of the World Squash Federation (WSF).
The WISPA Premiere Series is not related to a prize fund, nor is it a new type of tournament - but ‘simply a new initiative recognising the opportunity to assist new events both in their execution a
Gawain Briars, Chief Executive of the PSA, struck the joint deal with Ziad Al-Turki, Vice-President of the ATCO Group, and Paul Walters, founder of the internationalSPORTgroup.
The event is the biggest ever in women's squash - boasting a cash prize-fund of more than $100,000.
WSF president Jahangir Khan said: “This is excellent news for women's squash.
The 2007 Kuwait Open, which runs from April 7-11, together with the 2008 Kuwait Open, will be elevated to Super Series Platinum status - each offering prize-funds of $172,500 - with the climax of the
The decision came following a recent meeting in Malaysia of the federation’s executive board.
Hosts the University Club of Chicago confirmed the deal for the event which features the richest prize purse on the Professional Squash Association tour.
Sponsored by the Al-Ahram Foundation and staged from 28 August to 6 September, the 2006 Al-Ahram Men's World Open will boast a world ranking prize fund of $152,500 and will take place at the all-glass
The Professional Squash Association has awarded the rights to host and promote the PSA Men's World Open Squash Championship to Egypt.
The ‘Download & Own’ service allows fans to access matches covered via its dedicated webstreaming site – PSALive.tv – and download the games to their PCs.
The Professional Squash Association (PSA) has unveiled a new download service on its official website.
The former WSF president from Malaysia joins four other new IOC members who will serve eight years.
The IOC has 115 members in all.
HRH Prince Tunku Imran, patron of the World Squash Federation (WSF) and president of the Olympic Council of Malaysia, has been elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The following sport brands, media, and governing bodies have made it through to the concluding stage of judging, chaired by BBC presenter John Inverdale, on March 9 at Bloomberg Studios.
The Sport Industry Awards has revealed its 2006 shortlist, as the countdown begins to this year’s ceremony.
The following sport brands, media, and governing bodies have made it through to the concluding stage of judging, chaired by BBC presenter John Inverdale, on March 9 at Bloomberg Studios.
The Sport Industry Awards has revealed its 2006 shortlist, as the countdown begins to this year’s ceremony.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) controversially decided in July to eject both sports from the games.
The bill for the London Games could swell by £50million if baseball and softball are restored to the Olympic programme for 2012.
The deal was clinched by event promoters iSPORTmarketing – a company founded my former Dunlop executive Paul Walters.
Sportswear brand Dunlop has been confirmed as title sponsors of the 2005 British Open Squash Championships.
The new arrangement means the 2005 British Open Squash Championships will now take place in October at ManchesterC-s National Squash Centre in Sportcity.
SquashC-s British Open has been saved after a deal was clinched with management company iSPORTmarketing C1 the company set up last year by a former senior executive of sport brand Dunlop.
A new three-year deal will also see the PSL sponsored by Midlands-based insurance company THB Clowes.
England's top squash league will be renamed the Premier Squash League (PSL) for the forthcoming season.
Rogge, while expressing regret for the loss of baseball and softball, said "the IOC has chosen quality over quantity" after its decision not to replace them on the 2012 programme.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge says the two sports axed from the Olympics and the five new sports rejected for 2012 should look towards 2009, the next time a programme change will be considered.
The sports were the only ones not to receive a majority of votes by IOC members at their meeting in Singapore.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has voted to axe baseball and softball from the 2012 Olympics in London.
Only the overall result will be made public because of fears that details of the voting could create an unofficial ranking system among Olympic sports.
No voting details are to be given ahead of the IOC decision as to whether any of current 28 sports should be dropped from the Olympic Games programme.
The event will be held in Hong Kong from November 29 to December 4.
The biggest ever single event in World Squash will take place at the end of the year when the Men's and Women's World Open Championships are jointly staged for the first time.
It follows a decision to systematically review the sports making up the Olympic programme after each Olympic Games, to ensure the mix “continues to be relevant and meet the expectations of future sp
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has released a report evaluating the 28 sports currently on the Olympic Games programme, as well as five applicant sports.
With the strength of feeling running high the ASOIF - the body representing the summer Games sports - has called an extraordinary general assembly in Geneva on June 7.
A split has opened up between International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge and summer Olympic sports chiefs over plans for their sports to face a vote to be part of the 2012 Games.
The IOC has recently completed a major review of all the 28 sports which formed part of the programme at Athens and IOC chiefs are set to consider the findings this week.
Jacques Rogge has dropped a heavy hint that no sports will be ditched for the 2012 Olympic Games.
If rugby sevens fails in its attempt to gain a place on the Olympic Games schedule, the decision will be particularly badly taken in Hong Kong.
Editorial Director reviews the issues of the past seven days.
The World Squash Federation (WSF) has been lobbying hard for a place at the Olympic table for more than 20 years and this year the sport's leaders hope their hard work will pay off.
Squash is this week stepping up its bid for inclusion in the 2012 Olympic Games.
Harding is also world media director, in a combined role for the three international associations: the World Squash Federation (WSF); the Professional Squash Association (PSA), the men’s professiona
England Squash has retained Howard Harding as media director to direct the association’s PR activities.
The launch follows a series of trials where professional squash was transmitted via the internet through web streaming to audiences around the world, with feedback received from fans.
PSALIVE.tv, a dedicated squash web streaming channel, has been launched by the Professional Squash Association (PSA) with Horizon Software.
The shortlisted candidates have been chosen after a record number of submissions were received this year, to go forward to the final stage of judging on Friday, March 4.
The Sport Industry Awards has announced the shortlist for the 12 prize categories, as the countdown begins for the 2005 ceremony.
The Professional Squash Association (PSA) has reached agreement with the World Squash Federation (WSF) for the major men's championship in the sport to become a WSF-owned title.
The ownership of the Men's World Open Squash Championship title has changed hands.
WSA, the umbrella organisation for the national governing bodies of sport and physical recreation in Wales, will set up a commercial team based within the Welsh Institute for Sport at Sophia Gardens,
The Welsh Sports Association (WSA) has appointed a new commercial unit to reduce dependency on public sector funding and boost the marketing and communication of sport and outdoor recreation in Wales.
While mathematicians will tell you that two into one does go, anybody who has studied the psychology of football and football fans would probably tell you different.
Editorial director Kevin Roberts reviews some of the issues of the past seven days
"I am delighted that the Qatar Squash Federation, at this late stage, have agreed to regrade their annual Super Series event to the Qatar World Open - and we are grateful for their timely intervention
The Professional Squash Association (PSA) has revealed that the 2004 Qatar Men's World Open Squash Championship will be held in the host country's capital, Doha, next month.
The Professional Squash Association (PSA) confirmed that following negotiations with the Qatar Squash Federation in Mauritius, the 2004 Qatar Men's World Open Squash Championship will be held in Doha
Qatar is to host the men’s World Open Squash Championship for the second time in six years next month after a last-minute deal was struck.
The squash icon - who dominated the sport two decades ago when he won a record ten British Open titles and established an unbeaten record for more than five years - will serve a further two years as p
Jahangir Khan has been unanimously re-elected as president of the World Squash Federation (WSF) at the international federation's 34th Annual General Meeting.
The IOC is assessing the merits of all the sports and disciplines that were in the Athens Games programme, plus the five selected recognised sports: golf, rugby, roller sports, karate and squash.
Squash has been approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as one of five recognised federations that should be "studied further" before inclusion in the Olympic Games programme for 2012.
Restricted to Europeans only, the European Individual Championships will be staged at the National Tennis Centre in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, from September 8 to 11.
After an absence of more than ten years, the European Individual Squash Championships return next month, featuring the cream of the world's elite players.
He will place the out-going Ted Wallbutton who retires at the end of the year. Leighton will take up the position in January 2005.
The World Squash Federation (WSF) has confirmed Christian Leighton is to become its new chief executive.
Bermuda will host the PSA Masters in 2005 and 2006, and the World Open in 2007.
The PSA's biggest-ever single deal follows the success of the inaugural Bermuda Open in March.
The Professional Squash Association (PSA) and the Bermuda Squash Rackets Association (BSRA) are celebrating a record $350,000 agreement which will bring two flagship PSA Tour events to the tiny island.
They will work out of the London and Guildford offices of the sports marketing and entertainment specialists, one of the CSS Stellar plc group of companies, and formerly Craigie Taylor International.
Rob Pope and Andy Dwyer, former heads of sponsorship agency the TSW Consultancy, have joined the GEM Group.
The deal sees Brit Insurance extend its title sponsorship of the event into 2004 following a successful first year's sponsorship of the tournament, which took place at The Broadgate Arena in London in
Squash’s Super Series Finals has extended its sponsorship deal with Brit Insurance Holdings.
Harding's first role will be to look after the WBT's media interests at the BUPA Care Homes Open at Ponds Forge in Sheffield, UK, from November 9-16.
The World Bowls Tour (WBT) has appointed sports PR consultant Howard Harding as press officer for the forthcoming season.
His new venture will initially have offices in the UK before expanding to the US and Australia.
Dunlop's international squash marketing manager Paul Walters has quit to set up an international marketing and promotional company within the sport.
The event, to take place between December 14-21, will be jointly hosted by the PSF and the Punjab Squash Association.
The 2003 Men's World Open Squash Championship is to be staged in Lahore, Pakistan following the completion of a deal between the Professional Squash Association (PSA) and the Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF).
John Beddington, the promoter responsible for the Honda Challenge tennis event, and US enterpreneur John Nimick will invest in the 83-year old event to ensure that it does not drop of the calendar.
The future of the British Squash Open has been secured after two promoters agreed to fund the event out of their own pockets.
Under this new agreement, Pro-Active Television will handle all international TV rights for PSA-sanctioned events worldwide.
The Professional Squash Association (PSA) has appointed Pro-Active Television as exclusive TV and sponsorship development partners for the next three years.
The tournament, which was due to take place from 24-31 August, was axed after it became unclear how long the threat caused by the SARS virus would go on for.
Squash is the latest sport to be impacted by the SARS virus after the Hong Kong Open was cancelled.
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) said it will continue to be based in London for the foreseeable future after UK Sport confirmed its levels of funding for the organisation from 2003 onwards.
The central rights-holding organisation for the Commonwealth Games has dismissed claims it could move its headquarters out of London and into Australia.
Contested by the top eight qualifiers from the annual Professional Squash Association (PSA) Super Series tour, the 2003 Brit Insurance Super Series Squash Finals will be staged in a specially-construc
London-based insurance company Brit Insurance Holdings PLC has been confirmed as the new title sponsor of The Super Series Squash Finals, one of the sport’s most coveted events.
The agreement, which was brokered by Boston-based agency Event Engine, will see the Tennis Channel broadcast coverage from the US Open, the Canadian Open and Tournament of Champions squash championshi
As it looks to broaden its content base, the soon-to-be launched Tennis Channel has signed a deal for the TV rights to three major international squash championships.
Kahn's appointment was made at the Annual General Meeting of the Federation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Ex-world champion Jahangir Khan has been elected president of the World Squash Federation (WSF).
"Both styles of wrestling are practiced all around the world, and both have been instrumental in building the popularity of the modern Olympic Games," said Mankamyer.
Marty Mankamyer, the president of the US Olympic Committee (USOC) has opposed a recommendation to drop freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling at future Olympic Games.
San Francisco Velodrome LLC has been formed to develop the velodrome, which will accommodate a 5,000-seat cycling arena, plus have a custom-designed seating system, capable of expanding to 6-7,000 for
A new 7,000-seat multi-sport arena is planned for San Francisco.
"The whole world of squash will be bitterly disappointed by this news," said Susie Simcock, the president of the World Squash Federation (WSF).
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided that squash will not be included in the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008.
WorldSquash.org was relaunched 18 months ago and has surpassed the expectations of the WSF.
The World Squash Federation (WSF) is celebrating after its website chalked up visitor number two million.
The chief executive of the World Squash Federation has told sportbusiness.com
The World Squash Federation has told sportbusiness.com how it was rocked by claims of a financial probe into the chief of its marketing partner.
According to Fiona Piper, spokesperson for Bracken Partners - the venture capital firm, which has a 3 percent interest in the Eye Group, and one of the companies who sought the injunction to freeze Gu
Graham Gutteridge, chairman of the Gibraltar-registered investment company Fablon and Alternative Investment Market (AIM)-listed Non-League Media and a 60 percent shareholder in the sports marketing company the Eye Group, has had his assets frozen pending a court action to uncover alleged accounting discrepancies.
Gutteridge was instrumental in bringing Non-League Media to the market in May 2000, when the company was valued at £10.8million ($15.6m/B17.6m).
Non-League Media, the Alternative Investment Market-listed non-league football publishing company, has removed chairman Graham Gutteridge from its board.
The World Squash Federation is blaming the "financial uncertainty" caused by international events rather than security concerns for the cancellation of the World Men's Open.
The world men's squash championships, to be held in Melbourne, Australia next week, became a casualty of international unrest as they were cancelled due to lack of financial support.
In a historic five-year agreement, the PSA has secured a $1 million prize money deal for the most prestigious event on the PSA World Tour - representing the largest ever prize fund in the history of t
The Professional Squash Association (PSA) has announced that the Men's World Open rights and title for the years 2001-2005 have been granted to Procam International.
The agreement - in which Fablon have acquired a full package of commercial rights to the events from 2000 to 2008, including the rights to domestic and international broadcasting, advertising, sponsor
International women's squash has received a $4.5m boost after London-based intellectual property rights acquisition company Fablon Investments Limited acquired the rights to the Women's World Open and Women's World Team Championships in a unique nine-year agreement with the World Squash Federation (WSF).
Pro-Active is a producer and distributor of sporting television programmes in the UK and internationally - 85 per cent.
Sportsworld Media Group, the sports, media and entertainment business, has completed the acquisition of the UK-based Pro-Active Projects Limited for an initial consideration of #660,00.
An executive with the main contractors, United Engineers (Malaysia) Bhd (UEM), said the three million ringgit ($785,000) in damage to the public address and scoreboard control systems jeopardised plan
Vandals have damaged equipment at a new indoor gymnastics stadium being built for September's Commonwealth Games, delaying the transfer of the complex to Malaysian authorities by at least a month.
The live link-up via an internet 'chat room' will allow participants to see video, hear audio and read text as they communicate with the leading squash players competing in the WISPA World Tour's firs
Squash media and enthusiasts will be able to participate in the sport's first live worldwide interview with the world's leading women players - including England's world champion and world No1 Cassie Campion and Australia's former three-times world champion Sarah Fitz-Gerald - during the Com4Net Munich Open which gets underway in Germany today.
Sports Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said Dayacom, an advertising, promotions and event-management company, will start maintaining the complex for one year from next month.
The Malaysian government has awarded a huge RM12 million contract to a local company, Dayacom, to maintain the RM1.2mil National Sports Complex in Bukit Jalil.
Fablon are major shareholders in Eye Group Ltd, who stepped in at the last moment to rescue the 1999 event.
The future of the British Open squash championships, which came near being abandoned more than once in the last few years because of the scarcity of sponsors, has been made secure by a deal between the Squash Rackets Association and Fablon Investments.
The six times world champion and 10 times British Open champion wants to become a vice-president of the governing World Squash Federation (WSF).
Jahangir Khan, arguably the greatest squash player ever, will this week bid for a new role at the head of the international game.
The 1999 British Open will take place at the AECC in Aberdeen from December 6-12.
The Squash Rackets Association has announced this year?s British Open Squash Championship ? the oldest in the sport ? will be held in Scotland for the first time.
The new appointment was made at the WSF's 28th Annual General Meeting (on
Sunday 8 November) held in Stuttgart, Germany, during the staging of the
Women's World Championships.
Jahangir Khan, the record 10-times British Open Squash Champion from Pakistan,has been elected a Vice President of the World Squash Federation (WSF).
Former professional player Briars replaces John Nimick of the US, who retires from the post this month.
The Professional Squash Association has appointed England?s Gawain Briars as its new executive director.
HRH Prince Imran, the son of the King of Malaysia, served as President of the WSF from 1989 to 1996 and, after completion of this maximum term, was unanimously elected to the newly-created position of
Tunku Imran, the Emeritus President of the World Squash Federation (WSF), has been elected President of the Olympic Council of Malaysia - succeeding by 66 votes to 33 the predecessor who had held the position for 23 years.
The new service, provided by Horizon Software in association with the Eye Group, is being offered free during its trials at the Cathay Pacific Open from August 19-26 - and promises results ?directly t
Next week?s Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Squash Open, featuring the world?s top men?s and women?s players, will see the launch of the first SMS squash results service for mobile phone users all over the world.
"Since 1997, over $200m (US$105.7m) has gone to English sporting bodies and their athletes in Commonwealth Games sports," he said.
Perry Crosswhite, general manager of Australia's team for next year's Commonwealth Games in Manchester, believes England will surpass them in the medal tally, citing the National Lottery for the host nation's sporting revolution.
Under a new deal for the sport launched in the City London today, #21million of investment will be poured into the men?s game over an eight-year period beginning in April 2002.
The world of squash is set to be revolutionised by the launch of a strategic partnership between the Professional Squash Association, and the international marketing and sports rights company, Eye Group in tandem with its investment arm Fablon Investments Ltd.
Women's soccer, softball and boxing will feature for the first time, along with badminton, chess and squash, making a total of 21 sporting disciplines.
Organisers of the 2003 All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria have added a number of sports to the event's line-up in a bid to make it the biggest in its history.
The agreement was confirmed jointly by Birmingham City Council, the Squash Rackets Association (SRA) and the intellectual property rights acquisition company Fablon Investments Limited.
The British Open Squash Championships will make the National Indoor Arena (NIA) in Birmingham its base for at least the next seven years, following a recent deal.
But the prize money will be nothing to write home about.
Kenya is to host an international squash tournament sponsored by Lucozade Sport with 32 contestants from all over the world expected to compete.
The agreement guarantees a new WISPA World Grand Prix circuit, comprising the World Open and eight major national open championships, culminating in Grand Prix Finals at the end of each season.
The Women's International Squash Players' Association (WISPA) has entered into an eight-year deal with Fablon Investments which is worth more than $10m to the women's game.
The biennial election took place at the GAISF Conference in Monaco.
IOC
World Squash Federation (WSF) president Susie Simcock has become the first ever woman to be voted onto the Council of the General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF).
Most of the budget will go towards building venues for the sports, including a US$700m (B757m) stadium, which will be capable of holding 40,000 fans.
Vietnam has earmarked a budget of about US$800m (B
The new service, provided by Horizon Software in association with the Eye Group, is being offered free during its trials at the Cathay Pacific Open from August 19-26 - and promises results “directly
Next week’s Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Squash Open, featuring the world’s top men’s and women’s players, will see the launch of the first SMS squash results service for mobile phone users all over the world.
