PROSQUASH
Vol 11 No.
1 Issue No. 41 January 2007
Directors : Mahendra Agarwal / Narendra Gour (I.R.S.) / Navneet Soni (I.R.S.) / Shiv Kumar Dhanuka Honored Patrons : Vivek Nair (VC & M.D.The Leela) / Sajjan Jindal (Chairman & M.D. JSW Steel Ltd) / Eric Dastur (Chairman, K.M. Dastur Reinsurance Brokers Pvt. Ltd.) President : Ashish Gupta Vice President : Noreena Secretary General: Sanjay Goyal Joint Secretary : Vicky Kalludi Treasurer : Ashok Nagpal Executive Committee Mem. : Bharat Bhushan (I.R.S.) / Saifee Jani / Rakesh Lakhanpal / Madhukar Musle Advisors : Pradeep K. Vijayakar / Executive Assistant : Vidhya Rao Technical Director : Amitoj Inder Singh Chief Co-ordinator : Riaz Mohammed
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Indian Squash Professionals felicitating Vikram Malhotra |
Indian Squash
Professionals prides itself on being a unique NGO in sports. While the
regular elected federations may or may not do their jobs to the best of
their ability and to the satisfaction of the entire fraternity, ISP has
always believed in thinking out of the box to help boost squash. That
explains how and why the ISP's activities have been so varied. From adopting
players, organizing coaching camps, having celebrities involved in the sport
as well as bringing new technology for coaching and tournament organisation.
Above all it has made the humble men at the grassroots, the professionals,
the hub of squash activity which has multiplied the interest in the sport
over the last decade. Squash in Maharashtra state has never been the same
since ISP came on the scene, its pre-eminence being amply proved by the
number of tournaments it has staged--a round 75 by February making it a
platinum jubilee to remember. |
ISP prided itself on its
camps, the first being Monarch's first free Coaching camp in 1993, followed
by those of Jindal, squash legend Rahmat Khan (for Professionals and women),
besides periodic ones by Canada-based Abdul Shaikh at Bombay Gymkhana in
1997, CCI in 1999, Khar Gymkhana in 2003 etc. Camps followed at the Andheri
Sports Complex and of late in housing societies and several other clubs.
Squash is a costly sport so ISP began adopting players, looking after their coaching and kitting expenses, and for tournament participation. Arif Paul (1996), Deepali Anvekar (1997), Priyanka Yadav (1999) and Abhishek Pradhan (2003) were the beneficiaries. Amongst others who were sponsored was Sandeep Jhangra.