Press Report (1996)

PROSQUASH LAUNCHED 13-12-96

IT WAS A GREAT EVENING OF SQUASH WHEN THE NEWSLETTER OF THE INDIAN SQUASH PROFESSIONAL, PROSQUASH WAS LAUNCHED AT THE MUMBAI SCHOOLS SPORTS ASSOCIATION GROUNDS, DHOBITALAI.  

DOING THE HONOURS WAS THE 'GRAND OLD MAN' OF INDIAN SQUASH PHIROZE PANDOLE.  NOW IN HIS SEVENTILES AND WITH A CATARACT IN ONE EYE 'PAPA' PANDOLE HAS LOST NONE OF HIS MEMORY.  

HE RECALLED THE GREAT DAYS OF THE PROFESSIONALS FROM PAKISTAN WHO GRACED INDIAN CLUBS AND TRAINED THE PLAYERS IN CLUBS AND GYMKHANAS(ABDUL BARI, JAMAL DIN, YUSUF KHAN AND OTHERS).  HE FEFT SAD THAT INDIAN PROFESSIONALS HAD NOT HAD A SIMILAR BOOST THE PAKISTANIS DID WHEN THEY SOUGHT GREENER PASTURES IN THE UK & US. 

HE WAS HAPPY THAT SOMEONE LIKE THE ISP WAS COMING FORWARD TO BETTER THE LOT OF THE PROS AND GIVE THEM A BETTER DEAL SO THAT THE TINY TOTS PICKING UP THE LOWEST LEVELS WOULD BENEFIT.  THE CYNOSURE OF ALL THE MEDIAMEN THAT EVENING WAS RAHMAT KHAN, WHO ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT HE WOULD INVOLVE HIMSELF FULL SCALE WITH THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ISP SO THAT AN INDIAN CHAMPION OF THE WORLD WOULD EMERGE ONE DAY.