Squash

The history of squash began centuries ago in France (about 1150) with a game called “the Pauem” (palm), which has changed in tennis in the late fifteenth century. At that time, they played similar games just for fun, only in the narrow streets. The next big step came in the early 19th century in prison for the fleet in England. The prisoners he played inside their cells, just hit the ball with your hands (and later, pads) and bounce off the walls. This game was known as “Rackets”.

These games were very popular in schools and gave birth to the squash itself. The first four courses were built at Harrow School in England in 1864 and the game was officially founded (the word “squash” comes from the sound of the ball during a jump from the front wall of the courtyard).

Standardization

Sport does not yet have any kind of standardization, and it leads to two branches of the squash - a player with a soft ball in England and the other with a hard ball and a small courtyard close to North America.
The first squash court in North America was built in 1884 in New Hampshire St. Paul `s School and in 1907 the first national association was founded - the United States Squash Rackets Association (USSRA). Canadian Squash Rackets Association was followed in 1911 and in Britain the game is governed subcommittee Tennis Association and racketeering - Squash Rackets Association was finally established in 1928. The first professional world championship was in 1920 in England and then the sport began to spread around the world. In 1960 and 1980, it was more trouble for the two best players at the moment - Jonah Barington Ireland and Geoff Hunt, Australia - which has brought the game to the masses and started a boom in the sport.

In modern times, the International Squash Rackets Association was founded in 1966 in London, representatives of the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, Inida, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Arab Republic. In 1992 the ISRF was named the World Squash Federation (WSF), which finally recognizes the game as “Squash”, not “squash rackets”.

WSF control rules, the technical details of the courts, racquets and other equipment, and training of judges. It supports the coordination of events and arrange squash championships. And recent works in close collaboration with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to include squash in the Olympic program. There are over 120 national associations of squash in the framework of the WSF now. The game is now played in over 150 countries and over 49,000 tracks, over 17 million players have registered.

The Best Players

In one of the major players in the history of squash FD Amr Bey was the Egyptian who won five British Open Championship in 1930. The next Egyptian famous wine 15 years later - MA Karim won the title four times between 1947 and 1950 -. We have already mentioned Geoff Hunt of Australia in the 1960 and 1970, won the British Open eight times. Courses And let’s not forget the legendary players Pakistan - Jahangir Khan won the British Open a record ten times (1982-1992), Jansher Khan (eight times), Hashim Khan (seven times) and his dynasty.