WISPA promo tour

Après l'Estonie et la Norvège, la WISPA continue ses tournées de promotion en Amérique du Sud. Violaine en parle aussi.

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01-Mar-07: Argentina, Uruguay & Chile to host 9th WISPA promo tour The Women's International Squash Players' Association has confirmed details of its ninth annual WISPA Promotional Tour, which will visit Argentina, Uruguay and Chile from 30 May to 10 June. Leading the latest initiative in WISPA’s continuing drive to promote women's squash around the world will be Malaysia's reigning world champion Nicol David, Australia's former world number one Rachael Grinham, and Sarah Fitz-Gerald, the record five-times world champion, also from Australia. The Tour itinerary will feature exhibitions, clinics, press conferences and meetings with sports bodies in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, before a planned final leg in Santiago. All these programmes have been organised in close co-operation with the countries' National Squash Federations. WISPA can rightly claim to be 'going to the ends of the earth to promote squash'! In 2006, the WISPA group extended their trips to the Estonian capital of Tallinn and the Norwegian capital Oslo by visiting the most northern squash court in the world - in Longyearbyen, situated on the Norwegian island of Svalbard, which is less than 600 miles from the North Pole! This year the players travel south from Buenos Aires to be the first top players to play on the globe's most southerly courts - which are sited at Ushuaia in Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America. As in previous years, press conferences and television coverage will bring squash to the notice of the public - while local squash enthusiasts will be able to watch, and in some cases compete against, the WISPA stars.