A rock star bungee jumped on live television in New Zealand. A conference in Iran overflowed. Twenty-four-hour marathons happened in Chile and Ireland. The police escorted a motorcade in Malaysia. This was World Squash Day 2009. As we reported in March, World Squash Day was born in tragedy. On September 11, 2001, a former nationally ranked Scottish junior, Derek Sword, died in the World Trade Center attack. Five months later more than a dozen of New York Athletic Club friends (Sword was the Nyac club champion) flew to London to play a match against a squad of Sword’s British mates. The match was played on what Alan Thatcher, an English squash journalist and tournament promoter, dubbed World Squash Day.
- 6/3/2009
- Vanity Fair
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