The World Squash News service - sponsored jointly by the World Squash Federation (WSF), the Professional Squash Association (PSA) and the Women’s International Squash Players’ Association (WISPA) – celebrated a notable milestone at the weekend by producing its 5,000th edition.
Launched in October 1996, the sport’s international media service has chronicled countless championships from the flourishing PSA and WISPA World Tours across all five continents; it has highlighted day-to-day news of more than 600 players competing full-time on the men’s and women’s Tours; has covered numerous WSF world championships across all age-ranges, in addition to the sport’s presence in all but one of the major multi-sports Games around the world; and has nurtured the sport’s long-time bid to join the Olympic Games programme.
The 5,000 reports over the past twelve and a half years highlight the fact that the sport - which boasts some 20 million players worldwide - has generated an average of more than one international news story each day over the period.
“It was an inspired initiative back in 1996 that brought the three key international bodies in Squash together to coordinate this vital news service – one which has ensured that the world’s media have been able to rely on a steady diet of newsworthy material from the sport,” said WSF Vice President Frank van Loon.
For the full article: Wispa
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