Squash World Cup’s new avatar set to attract eyeballs
The Hindu
fourth edition
CHENNAI
Unlike the nomenclature of other sporting disciplines, the Squash World Cup, to be held at the all-glass show court inside the Express Avenue Mall here from June 13 to 17, doesn’t have a great tradition to show for.
In its fourth edition—the last time it was held in 2011 in Chennai—the championships, a mixed team competition will, nevertheless, have some exciting additions to make it quite exciting.
With the season-ending PSA World Tour finals scheduled in Cairo, Egypt from June 20, the top players have decided to give the World Cup the miss.
The organisers believe that the few tweaks they have attempted would help in taking the sport to the masses.
All the matches will be played to a best of five games to seven points (it’s 11 points in general).
At 6-6, the game will still be played to seven points. In a tie, there will be four matches wherein the winner of the match between top seeds of opposing teams will get two points and the contest between second seeds will be one.
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