Dipika is
officially on of the most beautiful in India
(of the world if you ask me...)
XII Squash Memorial Fernando
Vidal Salvá - Have a look, I personally enjoyed it...
NOT ONLY
BUT ALSO...
EZINE WINK
"After receiving a
decision that he didn't feel should have gone his way in the
semi-finals of last week's Tournament of Champions, British
Champion Nick Matthew intentionally served the ball out.
Considering the importance of the match, it was a very
chivalrous gesture."
I
was lucky to meet with Dennis - three times Canadian Champion -
in 2007 when John Nimick invited me to cover the Canadian
Classic in Toronto (Ramy first big win). We were doing the
Qualifying rounds there, and he was extremely helpful.
If you
missed it last edition, take the time to read that great one from the
NYTimes, then the "follow up" from Forbes, with a "Naked Man on the floor"
episode. Long articles both, and well worth taking the time to read them...
Tweeted by Ramy Ashour - Mercedes
Benz - Squash Game
Hello Magazine... The report about Azlan's wedding...
NOT ONLY
BUT ALSO...
FOOTBALL AND SQUASH THE BOOT ROOM INVITES
LEE DREW!
I really enjoy doing this
Corner. I'm not saying it's not a freaking lot of work, but I
come across some great articles.
Here is for example this "Boot Room", the official
magazine of The FA Licensed Coaches’ Club.
With three editions published per season, The Boot Room provides
expert coaching content to members. With insights from FA
National Coaches, overseas study visit reports, research
articles, and a dedicated grassroots coaching section, content
is provided for coaches at all levels of the game.
The Boot Room is also an arena for the vibrant discussion and
debate that surrounds coaching and player development. Stuart
Pearce, Gareth Southgate, Tony Mowbray, Ex-Chelsea legends,
Gianfranco Zola and Steve Clarke, also enter The Boot Room
to share their experiences of playing and coaching at the top
level.
And guess who's been invited?
Our own Lee
Drew! It shows that other sports as well as the media
are showing a little more interest in our Great Game!
AZLAN
ISKANDER
And if
you wonder what Azlan is up to know he's not only retired but newly married...
A great year for Mike Kawooya After
signing with a new Racquet Sponsor, Mike is now 2012 Uganda's squash player
of the year, an award sponsored by Nile Special (Uganda Sports Press
Association)
22 janvier 2013
FRAM'S
CORNER #163
Everything you never knew you needed to know about the Squash
World 22nd January 2012
Donna Urquhart Urquhart
out to make a racket with new campaign
NOT ONLY
BUT ALSO...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RANEEM...
Raneem and Tarek,
just got engaged and celebrated Raneem's birthday
(1st jan!) ...
CARNET ROSE...
Well,
another good news in the new year... Joelle King is now
married, bless her, to lovely Ryan Shuttle...
Meanwhile, Daryl Selby is now 'Sleepless in London', as
his wife Lucy just awarded him with the most beautiful of
titles, "Dad".
"Noah George Selby was born at 11.45am on the 4th
January. He was 7lbs 13oz so pretty normal weight. Him and mum
are doing well, dad is so proud..."
To Joelle/Ryan, Daryl/Lucy/Noah, toutes nos félicitations...
2 janvier 2013
FRAM'S
CORNER #159
Everything you never knew you needed to know about the Squash
World 2nd January 2012
HOWARD HARDING, or the ART OF MAKING US LOOK GOOD by Framboise Gommendy
You
readers may have heard of Steve Cubbins or myself, as our name
appears quite logically regularly on this site. You may have
read the name of a few other journalists, but I bet very few of
you actually know of Howard Harding.
Well, that's the point of his work. Not to be known.
Howard chose to do the ingrate job of "serving the soup" for the
rest of the medias, as we say in French. As in, he provides the
journalists in the whole world with articles, full of dates,
facts, stats, information, results, that help writers to adapt
them to their liking (no credit due) to help promoting the sport
everywhere.
Not
only that, but he also has the most up to date, complete, user
friendly stats website in the world. It's called SquashInfo.com.
We all depends on his database, and should he stop updating it,
the world of squash would be data-less, as simple as that.
Relentlessly, he sends us info sheets with precious stats, facts
like "Ashour becomes the first player since Pakistan's
legendary Jansher Khan in the mid-nineties to make the final of
every event in which he competed in a calendar year."
yeah, I knew that....
So, we write our own reports,
and look like we know something about squash. I fooled most of
people in thinking I know
I'm talking about, now you know the
secret. 95% of the facts we state,
well, are Howard's based.
From a personal point of
view, when I
arrived on the Press Scene in 2004, Howard didn't join some of my "colleagues" - that I
came to call
the Dinosaurs Pack, and who made my life hell for
about two years. Howard never played that childish and heartless
game. He was always kind, fair, polite, helpful, funny and efficient.
He grew to become a friend. And a precious one.
Recently, the proliferation of new medias have fooled a few
organisations into believing that Howard's work was not that
important, and that money could
be saved by not employing him anymore.
Well, my lovely French short fuse would led me to comment, "you
IDIOTS". But as I have now learned the British Tact, I will
simply state, "well, that was probably not the most clever of
decisions".
When
I see how Howard's work is undervalued and taken for granted, I
cannot not see the parallel with the way SquashSite is being
perceived by some.... And it hurts.
By all means, invest in new techniques of communication. By all
means, improve the Sport and try and develop the audience by all
possible means. Make the game more attractive to the masses, yes
please. Recruit new writers, yes, yes, yes.
But as the Africans
say "don't kick away the boat that made you cross the river".
Don't get rid of your past to chase after an hypothetical
future. Build from it. On it. With it.
Howard, I've been telling you for years, you are my Bible. You
are a wonderful person, and squash is a better place for having
you.
Merci.
"Howard has been an essential
service.
"In this modern era of statistics being handed on a plate to
journalists, Howard's data is pivotal in creating stories and
promoting the sport.
"Lose this aspect and the sport suffers."
The Telgraph
Howard
Harding has been a solid and dependable presence in squash for
several decades now.
A lot of people seem to think media work is easy (a number of ex-players
spring to mind) but suddenly, when faced with the need to actually
do some research on a particular subject, they realise that some
hard work is needed to dig for facts.
That's where Howard's support and depth of knowledge is vital for
many individuals and media outlets.
His support has been particularly welcome during PR campaigns at
tournaments large small, and I am extremely grateful for his
willingness to go the extra mile to support World Squash Day and the
Olympic bid.
(Sports Journalist and Founder of World Squash Day)
"From day one, Howard has been "the
straw that stirs the drink" on our
US-based website.
"His reports are lively, entertaining and always thoroughly
professional.
If not for Howard's tireless work, we wouldn't be able to cover the
majority of the events that we do.
"He is irreplaceable.
TheDailyReport
"L'EQUIPE' Thanks Howard "Without Howard Harding support, Squash probably wouldn't occupy
the place it now has in the French Press.
When I was in charge of squash for l'Equipe a few years ago, I
benefitted with Howard's information to feed my articles.
I asked Howard to add a few of l'Equipe.fr journalists, and to
my delight, squash results started to appear on the site... Well,
with over 2 millions visitors a day helps to make a discipline
known, now, doesn't it...
Without Howard infos, no news on the site...
But the most important was the diversity of the articles he sent
us. Majors of course, but small as well. As I've been following
many sports, I can tell you that very few offer such a quality
of service.
When Squash dreams of an Olympic Status, Howard is a splendid
asset for this amazing sport.
Merci Howard.
L'Equipe, L'Equipe.fr, Equida TV editor
"La place du squash dans les médias
français ne serait sans doute pas ce qu'elle est aujourd'hui
sans le travail d'Howard. Lorsque je me suis occupé du squash à
L'Equipe il y a quelques années, j'ai bénéficié de ses
nombreuses informations pour nourrir mes papiers.
Très vite, après avoir ajouté quelques mails de lequipe.fr sur
la liste d'Howard, j'ai eu le plaisir de découvrir régulièrement
les résultats des tournois sur le site... Avec près de 2
millions de visiteurs par jour, ça aide incontestablement une
discipline à se faire connaître.
Et sans les communiqués d'Howard, pas de news sur le site. Mais
le plus épatant était de constater, la richesse et la diversité
des informations. Les grands tournois bien sûr mais aussi des
plus petits. Pour avoir suivi de nombreuses disciplines, croyez
moi, peu disposent d'un "service" de la qualité de celui
d'Howard.
A l'heure où le squash rêve d'un destin olympique,
Howard Harding est une grande richesse pour ce magnifique sport.
At a time when the squash world’s need
to have its events promoted, its players’ achievements
publicized and its overall exposure maximized in the larger
sports and world media has never been greater (read “Olympic
Bid”), the disrespectful treatment that its foremost proponent
Howard Harding has been receiving of late has been both highly
disappointing and sadly self-defeating.
For years Harding did a remarkable job of promptly producing
summaries of each day’s tournament play on behalf of the men’s
pro tour (the Professional Squash Association, or PSA), the
women’s pro tour (the Women’s Squash Association, or WSA, which
changed its name from WISPA in 2011) and the European Squash
Federation (ESF).
His daily tournament coverage reports, always
issued within hours after each day’s last match had ended
(beginning with the qualifying and going straight through the
final), were thorough, informative and entertaining, containing
just the right complement of historical perspective and
continuity, and the reliability level with which his write-ups
were issued became such that the DailySquashReport.com site for
which I write swiftly grew to depend on them, and on him, as a
trustworthy source and staple of our coverage. DSR’s Publisher
Ted Gross eloquently expressed this phenomenon in his May 1st
one-year-anniversary statement when he saluted Harding and his
contribution to squash reporting as “the straw that stirs the
drink.”
Ever since the WSA decided to discontinue its relationship with
Harding a year and a half ago in favor of handling the reporting
in-house, there has been a commensurate drop in the tour’s
exposure quotient and profile; at present, there is daily
coverage (by Harding) of all the PSA events while the WSA often
issues only one tournament write-up, disseminated after the
event has ended.
Now we have just learned that the ESF has informed Harding (who
had been covering their league matches and junior tournaments,
pieces that we at DSR have frequently linked to) that they are
terminating their relationship, having decided to do without a
public-relations service from 2013 onwards.
These organizations
need MORE of the kind of coverage that Harding so expertly
provides, not less. They are shooting themselves in the foot,
and the wounds their shortsightedness is thereby inflicting are
to both themselves and the sport as a whole as it seeks
inclusion in the 2020 Olympic Games.
New
York Magic for Squash at Grand Central Terminal
Big
Apple keeps that rosy appeal
Chichester
beat Winchester to maintain fine form
Potters
win battle at top of Norfolk Squash League as holders take
third
Future
is bright for squash stars
Sheffield
squash star is making a racket 
Ramy
Ashour, professional squash and ’10 world No. 1 player,
visits Harlem for the 1st time
PSA
gets Pride of Performance Trophy
Navy
offers squash courts to Balochistan body
John
Dunlop, chief executive of Scottish Squash and
Racketball, hopes that his sport will be in a position
to seize the moment at Glasgow 2014 by staging its
competition in a landmark location in the city.
Columbia
Student-Athlete Reyna Pacheco Assists in Bid to Add
Squash to the 2020 Olympics
Physical
chess: 
The
Squash Tournament Of Champions Is Underway, And That’s Why You’re Late
For Your Train
A
squash club is set for a makeover after securing an Olympic
legacy lottery grant.
Squash
league hit by weather problems
Latest
news and reports from Northern Squash Club
Chorley
squash star launches new tournament
Edinburgh
coach leads way in qualifiers
New
circuit boost for players
My
sport deserves place at top table
Giant
Squash Court Drives Surprise Fans to Halls of Grand Central 
Now
in spotlight, squash wants to be player in Olympics
Top
squash player Kawooya signs with Harrow sports for rackets
Dunnington
oust city rivals Wigginton
Janashakthi
sponsors squash nationals
Pakistan
is to organise first international squash tournament of the
year
SMK
St Joseph and SMK St Teresa shine in squash tourney
Squash
fraternity rewarded
I
want to become squash’s Saina Nehwal
Marathon
Man: Canada's Shawn Delierre shows his mettle in 157-minute squash war
Squash
star Matthew strikes Dunlop extension
Samar
Anjum stuns Saadia in squash trial match
For
squash’s smiling superstar, 2020 remains the dream
Edinburgh
given glimpse of 'new Jansher Khan'
Model
Pia Trivedi engaged to squash player Ritwik
Professional
squash player Ibrahim Nyanzi to visit Uganda
Nicol
David hopes to dominate squash until 2020 Olympics
Olympians
show their support for Squash 2020 bid
Matthew
n Strop: Duelling squash pair to push the sport towards
Olympic status
City-bound
Squash bidding for Games place
What
are your sporting hopes for 2013
Malaysia's
Nicol David retains World Series title
Brilliant
Massaro into squash World Series final
David
eases into squash World Series final
ATCO
PSA World Series Squash Finals 2013 – Live on Sky Sports
James
Willstrop On The Growth Of British Squash
"Women’s
squash is stronger than ever" 
Chorley
squash player Laura Massaro 'taken by surprise' in title
clash
Welsh
National Squash Championships 2013
Eain
Yow’s British Junior Open truimph augurs well
for squash
Squash
quarter finals day at the Hallamshire
Squash
trials for Asian Junior event from 16th
Pakistani
squash players set up camp
Harrow
Sports International signs Uganda's top Squash
star
Top
Seeds Plot for Africa Squash Championship
You
readers may have heard of Steve Cubbins or myself, as our name
appears quite logically regularly on this site. You may have
read the name of a few other journalists, but I bet very few of
you actually know of Howard Harding.
"Without Howard Harding support, Squash probably wouldn't occupy
the place it now has in the French Press.
Junior
squash sessions proving a hit with sporty
youngsters
Top
score for top squash coach at awards night
"I
was offered to act in movies but my focus is purely on
squash"
