South African Squash CEO Elizabeth Addison says Mzantsi will have a lone representative at the upcoming Glasgow Commonwealth Games and she reckons Egypt in this category are the favourites. However SA was hoping to qualify their double’s team at the World team Champs in France next month, but the tournament has been postponed, and Canadian Open winner Stephen Coppinger will be our only hope in Scotland…
South Africa have not had a player inside the top five and twenty in Africa and the world respectively in over 17 years, something that does not go well with Addison…
Nonetheless the future of the SA seniors is much better and Addison says fifty odd players have registered for the July China’s Masters…
However with the sport fading in the white community it is slowly gaining momentum in the previously disadvantaged. And Addison says Wayne Sithole’s humble beginning is a testimony to their development structures within the black communities…Journalist: Tshepo Khuzwayo