New Delhi: India’s squash icon Saurav Ghosal was on Thursday appointed because the sports activities commissioner of the World Premier Squash, a brand new international skilled competitors scheduled to be held later this 12 months.

India’s solely male participant to achieve the highest 10 within the PSA World Rankings, Ghosal boasts 11 titles, 9 Asian Video games medals, and 20 years of elite competitors. He has additionally served as the lads’s president of the Skilled Squash Affiliation (PSA) and as co-chair of the joint Athletes Fee of the PSA and World Squash, the game’s international governing physique.

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Premier Squash (WPS), Ghosal will set and oversee the league’s full sporting framework, spanning competitors codecs, participant qualification pathways, and officiating requirements,” mentioned a WPS assertion on the league whose inaugural version will likely be held in August.

“WPS combines elite skilled competitors with an open international pathway utilizing multi-modal AI on the sting. Of the 24 gamers within the league, together with reserves, eight will likely be elite professionals. “Via AI-enabled challenges hosted on the Way forward for Sports activities Platform (FSP), opponents worldwide can qualify for as much as 16 of the remaining spots — requiring no brokers, no rating historical past, and no geography. It’s a direct, merit-based entry level,” the discharge added.

Ghosal mentioned the league has the potential to provide the game, which is able to make its debut on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, its subsequent large participant.

“The very best squash gamers on the planet got here by means of communities, golf equipment and courts removed from the highlight. World Premier Squash honours that through the use of AI-enabled challenges on the FSP platform to attach each nook of the worldwide squash household, and giving the game’s subsequent nice participant, wherever they’re, a real path to the highest,” mentioned Ghosal.