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The first MSSA schools squash tournament will be held at February 8 to 11 at the Cricket Club of India.
Individual Championships 2006 By Pradeep Vijayakar There was something for all the squash giants of Asia when the Masonry Asian Juniors Championship ended in Singapore.
Article in Times of India (Bombay Times) : 11/09/2006 Squash champ Ritwik Bhattacharya is raring to go.
‘The real mark of a sportsman is how good he is on a bad day’ Article in Times of India : 9/04/2006 Ritwik Bhattacharya, India’s National Squash Champion, who is currently in Mumbai, on his passion for the game NICOLE DASTUR Times News Network He’s all of 26.
Ritwik Bhattacharya and Saurav Ghoshal were world doubles runners-up at the championships held in Chennai in 2004 and, along with Gaurav Nandrajog, were members of the squad that reached the semi-finals of the Asian Team Championship in Taiwan this year.
Among men, Saurav Ghosal climbed two places to 59th in the latest Professional Squash Association (PSA) rankings.
And when you have a role to play in the upliftment of squash, it gives you great satisfaction.
But it is excellence in squash he is aspiring for, not ‘good friend’ Neha Dhupia PIYALI DASGUPTA He stands 41 st in world rankings and is the numero uno squash player in India, but Ritwik Bhattacharya likes to keep a low profile.
’’ What about the other hat you wore, president of the Squash Rackets Association of Maharashtra?.
So he shifted base from Delhi to London, where he’s training under one of the world’s finest squash coaches, Neil Harvey.
Article in Times of India : 24/7/06 India commenced their hunt for honours on a good note beating Zimbabwe in straight games in their first pool match of the 14th World Junior Men’s Squash Championship in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Submit Joshna’s performance records, SAI tells SRFI Article in Times of India, Mumbai : 22/09/06 New Delhi: The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has taken note of Joshna Chinappa’s allegations that the Squash Racquets Federation of India (SRFI) is not interested in sending the best teams for overseas competitions, including the Doha Asian Games in December.
” Even a cursory look at the facts reinforces the case for Indian squash participation in these Games.
Press Articles 2006
Nicol downs Rachael to clinch title The Hindu : 10/07/2006 HYDERABAD: World champion Nicol David of Malaysia reasserted her class with a clinical demolition of defending champion Rachael Grinham of Australia 4-9, 9-5, 9-0, 9-0 in just under 45 minutes in the final of the Qatar Challenge 2006 WISPA squash tournament here on Sunday.
On vacation with squash (Article in Mid-day, Mumbai 11/5/2006).
Though she has given up the sport to prepare for her Class XII exams, it is because of her that I am playing good squash,” said the commerce student from HR College.
Interestingly both Chennai and Mumbai are dominating the squash game in India.
I hope I can get a scholarship on the basis of my achievements in squash,” said Colaba resident.
Times of India (Mumbai) : 12th January 2006 New Delhi: The Indian challenge ended early with Ritwik Bhattacharya and Saurav Ghoshal crashing out of the 3rd World Doubles Squash Championships in Melbourne on Tuesday.
Ironically, despite Indian performances having never touched any respectable level, Ramachandran has been president of the Asian Squash Federation since 2001.
Keen learners The Indian born 72 year old had two brief stints in India earlier, for teaching the Indian squash coaches.
12/07/2006 : DNA NEW DELHI: Dipika Pallikal has won the Pioneer Open junior squash event in Cologne, Germany, after beating W.
This time I had planned to get some proper squash training during the summer vacations and found the ideal one at Bombay Gymkhana," said Ryesh.
17/06/2006 ICL Chennai Open Squash Championship, ICL Squash Academy, Chennai, India Bhattacharya Celebrates Six Of The Best In Chennai.
“I came here in 2002 and 2004 to deliver lectures to the professional squash coaches in Mumbai Chennai, they were enthusiastic and keen to learn the same,” said Sheikh at Cricket Club Of India yesterday.
It was a performance befitting the magnificent setting with the squash courts set up in the foreground of the historic Falaknuma Palace.
It’s only now that squash is slowly being looked at as a common man’s sport, rather than an elitist sport.
India in Asian Squash semis (Article in Times of India, Mumbai : 28/02/2006).
Squash trainees have mums for company (Article in Mid-day, Mumbai 12/5/2006).
Consider this: India has the women's junior world and Asian champion in Joshna Chinappa, and were semi-finalists in the men's section at the recent Asian championships, besides being runners-up at the world doubles championships in 2004.
In his first International tournament abroad Deerav Moolani, Class X student of Bishops School, finished in Top 8 at juniors squash tournament being held in the city of Penang, Malaysia.
Moreover, at the recent selection trials for Colombo South Asian Games and Asian Games, she was asked to report to Delhi while the rest of the players reported to the national coach at Chennai.
“The coaches encouraged me and supplied me squash magazines and other related material to learn about the game.
India may not be a powerhouse in squash, but it takes no great thinking to realise that, compared to some of the other disciplines India will be represented in, squash may well have provided a better shot a medal.
Ramachandran is very much here — walking his talk and playing the political games that are his forte, and which enable him to control the game of squash — as also Indian triathlon — which he runs like his personal fiefdom year after year ad infinitum.
Local hero Ritwik Bhattacharya beat Dutchman Dylan Bennett in the final of the 4th ICL Chennai Open Squash Championship at the ICL Squash Academy in Chennai, India, to notch up his sixth PSA Tour title win in six finals.
is the first time I have seen Ritwik play so very well," said Major Maniam, Consultant Coach of the Squash Rackets Federation of India.
After Sandeep Jangra crafted a 9-6 9-1 9-5 win over Deepesh Patel in the first singles, Delhi’s Harinderpal Singh of the India Cements Squash Academy disposed of Ahmed Hassan 9-2 9-5 9-6, while another Delhi-based player Naresh Kumar completed the tally with a superb 9-4 9-1 9-0 win over Zardeen Wasir.
Bhattacharya Celebrates Six Of The Best In Chennai (ICL Chennai Open Squash Championship) : 17/06/06.
35-plus bracket will play in the $10,000 One Star Professional Squash Association event to be held there from August 8 to 13.
Atkinson loses chance to reach #1 this month Vanessa Atkinson's bid to clinch the world number one ranking for the first time next month took a dramatic knock in Doha when she crashed out of the second round of the Women's Qatar Airways Squash Challenge.
The Hindu (17th July 2006) Chennai: India's Dipika Pallikal won the Dutch junior Open squash championship in the girls' under-15 category, beating Nouran Alaa El Torky 9-6, 9-4, 9-3, in the final, at Amsterdam, on Sunday.
The 28-year-old Australian cruised to a 9-1 9-4 9-4 win in 26 minutes over Hong Kong's Asian Games champion Rebecca Chiu - and must now beat England's fifth seed Linda Elriani to keep alive her hopes of extending her world number one ranking into a tenth successive month.
The popularity of squash is growing in India, especially in the metros.
Joshna Chinappa stormed into the top 50 of the women’s world squash rankings with a huge jump of 10 places.
Sitting beside the CCI squash courts, accompanied by his life partner Villoo who was also his one time mixed doubles partner in Badminton in 1960’s, Shaikh was impressed with the infrastructure also.
The 19-year-old from Chennai, currently ranked 74 in the world, has entered the women's international squash players association tour (WISPA), recently and reached the quarter-final stage of two events besides a semi-final in the last month.
I recently defeated Egypt’s Amr Shabana, world’s top-ranking squash player, while we were practicing.
Spurning an education at Ivy League to follow his passion — squash — Ritwik says that the sport is the only thing that really excites him.
The latest in the SRFI’s unending chronicle of autocratic functioning and a devil-may-care, to-hell-with-Indian squash attitude is the absence of deserving Indian players in the squash event of the 18th Commonwealth Games here.
State open squash championship (The Hindu - 27/06/2006).
The third biggest championship on the Women's International Squash Players' Association World Tour, boasting a prize fund of $79,550, will be played from 4–9 July in Hyderabad, a major Qatar Airways destination in India.
Mid-Day : May 12, 2006 It's meant for youngsters, but two mothers in their 30s and 40s hogged the limelight at the Raju Chainani ISP-SRAM squash camp at Mumbai Police Gymkhana.
“I will be back to squash for the national tournament on October 25 and then an inter-stater.
“The Doha Asian Games are approaching fast but I am still to receive any communication from SRFI,” she said in Jaipur.
The talented squash player, supported by the Mittal Foundation, is being coached by Liz Irwing of Australia, who is also the coach of world No 1 Nicol David.
On telephone conversation he said, the world standard of squash is very high compared to India, where the game is just picking up.
Joshna’s target Times of India, Mumbai : 23/02/06 : By Pradeep Vijayakar Joshna Chinappa, national squash champion, is targeting a top 30 finish in the world rankings by the end of the year.
At one time he was president of Pakistan’s hockey, squash and cricket federations, plus heading the Pakistan International Airlines through which he helped Pakistan sport.
have been playing squash since 11 months but had never attended a coaching camp.
Ranked 54 in the world, Joshna had recently expressed concern that she might be left out of the Indian squad for the Doha Asian Games.
Article in Times of India, Mumbai : 16th May, 2006 National Champion Ritwik Bhattacharya went down fighting to Canada's Shawn De Lierre 10-12, 10-12, 11-7, 11-4, 7-11 in a riveting quarterfinal in the PSA Atlanta Squash Open.
A senior official of the Sports Authority of India (SAI) has been quoted by the Hindustan Times (Delhi) as saying that it (SAI) was keen to send a team because it felt that India had “more than a fair chance to win at least one medal in squash”.
But he’s been there and done that, all right! India’s number one squash player, Ritwik Bhattacharya, already has many an ace up his sleeve, but the ambitious young gun only wants more.
Staying updated Shaikh, now on a holiday to India, remains updated on Indian squash through the Prosquash Magazine published by Indian Squash Professionals.
Khalidbhai’s out with his first book (Pro-Squash correspondent PVJ Kar interviewed Khalid about his career).
” Get Glass Courts He, however had a suggestion, “There should be more glass courts so that enough spectators can enjoy the game,” he said Shaikh a one-time badminton and squash champion, has some happy memories of his playing days.
India in Asian squash semis Times of India, Mumbai : 28/02/06 Indian men will take on Malaysia in the semifinal of the Asian men’s team squash championships in Chinese Taipei.
Ritwik – Saurav crash out of 3rd World Doubles Squash Championships in Melbourne (Times of India, Mumbai - 12/01/2006).
Airways looks forward to welcoming the world's top women squash players for what promises to be an exciting event with excellent prize money on offer.
The impressive performance of the Indian Squash players, both men’s has won them admires at the international scene.
Bollywood Acress-Neha Dhupia's new guy, Ritwik Bhattacharya — India’s No 1 squash player (Mid-day : 20/6/2006).
Article in Times of India : 13th September 2006 New Delhi: Hostilities between SRFI and Joshna Chinappa have taken on a personal hue with N Ramachandran, secretary general of the Squash Rackets Federation of India, choosing to launch a personal attack on Joshna while trying to defend the federation’s ‘ill-treatment’ of the five-times national champion and India No.
The SRFI secretary-general kept Chinappa out of the Indian team for the recent Asian championships as well.
: May 11, 2006 Squash was yet another game for these guys until they joined the Raju Chainani ISP-SRAM Squash Camp at Bombay Gymkhana.
“I was a good badminton player during my school days but had never heard about squash.
SQUASH BOOM IN MUMBAI Abdul Shaikh.
But it was squash that I was particularly fond of, and quite good at, which is when I decided to make it my profession,” says Ritwik.
Khalidbhai’s out with his first book Khalid Ansari, former president of Squash Rackets Association of Maharashtra has published his first book, through Popular Prakashan.
“ I am still involved with educational programmes where I deliver Lectures on Badminton and Squash coaching.
Dutch junior Open squash championship - Good Show by Deepika (Article in The Hindu - 17/07/2006).
Since the SAI is the nodal agency for clearing the names and forwarding the recommendations of the respective federations, one wonders if it did not realise India's prospects in squash.
Ramachandran’s action in denying Chinappa, Bhattacharya, Ghoshal and other promising squash players the opportunities that they deserve is perverse and palpably not in the best interest of Indian squash.
Living in Churchgate, Shivangi has been playing squash for three years and has been winning a significant number of titles.
Same applies for Abdul Shaikh, a retired teaching professional in racket sports (squash, badminton and lawn tennis) at Vancouver at Canada.
According to whispers, it was Ritwik Bhattacharya — India’s No 1 squash player.
The fact is that I have known Neha for ages now, since the time she used to come to the club with her dad and brother — who also used to play squash with me.
With squash demanding a strenuous physical regimen and regular participation in competitions, how does the Cricket Club of India player balance it with his studies?.
Indian Express (Mumbai) : 19/1/2006 Total indecisiveness by those who run the Squash Rackets Federation of India (SRFI) has pushed players in limbo, vis-a-vis the Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
His personal and legal problems with the youngster’s parents are fast becoming the notorious stuff of squash legend.
RESULTS: Women's Qatar Airways Squash Challenge, Doha, Qatar 2nd round:.
Mid-day : March 23, 2006 Melbourne: There is just no limit to the Squash Rackets Federation of India’s lack of transparency, contempt for accountability and capacity for Machiavellian manipulation.
SRFI squashes India’s chances at commonwealth games ( Hindustan Times, Delhi : 10/3/2006).
” Even though his future plans read only “squash, squash and more squash” Ritwik’s other interests include reading — “it relaxes me” — and travelling — “if not a sportsman, I would’ve taken to flying.
Ritwik loses in the quarterfinals of PSA Atlanta Squash Open (Article in Times of India, Mumbai : 15/05/2006).
The top seed defeated second seed Harita Omprakash of Chennai 6-9, 10-8, 9-2, 9-5 to clinch the girls’ under-19 SKF-Little Masters All India junior squash title at Willingdon Sports Club on Saturday.
Article in Times of India, Mumbai : 3/5/2006 India No 1 Ritwik Bhattacharya entered the main draw of the $78,000 Liverpool 08 Squash Open in Liverpool on Monday.
Yesterday, he spanked Calcutta University skipper Rishabh Mundra 3-0 (9-2, 9-0 and 9-0) to help Mumbai University to a 3-0 win over Calcutta in the round robin league of Tri-University squash tournament sponsored by HR College at the Mumbai Police Gymkhana.
Manek Mathur propels Trinity to title Times of India, Mumbai : 24/02/06 : By Pradeep Vijayakar Manek Mathur made a mark as a freshman for Trinity who won the US collegiate squash title for a record 8th year in a row.
Squash boom in Mumbai (Mid-day : 11/04/2006).
” Australian squash legend John Hunt, who was world No 1 from 1975-80 and won 178 of 215 tournaments, says: “The Commonwealth Games is the greatest thing that happened to squash.
Neha calls the shots! Article in Mid-day : 20/9/2006 Squash champ Ritwik Bhattacharya's voice has turned hoarse screaming, didn't follow Neha (Dhupia) to Dubai.
Squashed between rock a hard place (Article in Indian Express, Mumbai : 19/01/2006).
Pakistan's Mansoor Zaman and India's Joshna Chinappa successfully defended their squash titles in the South Asian Games at the Gymkhana Club in Sri Lanka's largest city Colombo.
The latest bunch will be the ones from squash which has made the club famous with national and junior champs coming to the fore.
Nandita, 37, a Nursery school teacher in Marine Lines developed a liking for squash after watching her son Parth in action.
Some include the Maharashtra State Squash Open, The Otter’s Open, Western India Squash Tournament and the Khar Gymkhana inter-school squash open.
Squash included Article in Times of India, Mumbai : 20/01/2006 The efforts of Indian Squash Professionals have borne fruit with the Mumbai Schools Sports Association agreeing to have squash as part of schools sports.
Pro-Squash correspondent PVJ Kar interviewed Khalid about his career When did you take to journalism?.
Wohi raftaar bedhangi (the same illogical manner of functioning)! SRFI SQUASHES INDIA'S CHANCES AT COMMONWEALTH GAMES.
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