Let the video games start: Tamil Nadu Sports Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin with Joshna and different gamers throughout the inaugural ceremony of Squash World Cup in Chennai on Monday.
| Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam
CHENNAI
Unlike the nomenclature of different sporting disciplines, the Squash World Cup, to be held on the all-glass present courtroom contained in the Express Avenue Mall right here from June 13 to 17, doesn’t have a fantastic custom to point out for.
In its fourth version—the final time it was held in 2011 in Chennai—the championships, a combined staff competitors will, however, have some thrilling additions to make it fairly thrilling.
With the season-ending PSA World Tour finals scheduled in Cairo, Egypt from June 20, the highest gamers have determined to present the World Cup the miss.
The organisers imagine that the few tweaks they’ve tried would assist in taking the game to the plenty.
All the matches might be performed to a finest of 5 video games to seven factors (it’s 11 factors normally).
At 6-6, the sport will nonetheless be performed to seven factors. In a tie, there might be 4 matches whereby the winner of the match between high seeds of opposing groups will get two factors and the competition between second seeds might be one.
In the opportunity of a attract a tie, the successful staff might be determined by the higher constructive distinction between video games gained and misplaced.
The eight groups—Egypt, India, Hong Kong, Japan, South Africa, Malaysia, Australia & Colombia—have some good aggressive gamers contained in the world’s high 100.
Egypt is the highest seed whereas India is seeded two. Pitted in Group B, India’s hardest problem will come from Japan that has in its ranks Satomi Watanabe, ranked World No.18 within the girls’s part and strong gamers in Ryunosuke Tsukue and Tomotake Endo (males).
Lottery
India’s Saurav Ghosal, Joshna Chinappa and Abhay Singh felt the brand new format with seven factors is sort of a lottery and that upsets will all the time be across the nook.
“The new point system favours both the players,” mentioned Joshna, India’s finest girls’s participant. “There is not much room for errors. Everybody will be more aggressive, but it will be fun and exciting.”
Abhay, India’s rising star, mentioned “the seven-point thing might be a bit tricky.” Saurav, World No.17, felt the brand new format might be a“bit alien” to all of the groups and earlier they adapt the higher it’s.
India will tackle Hong Kong (the opposite groups are Japan & South Africa) in its first group match on Tuesday.
