Squash: New rule plea over injuries
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The past 18 months have seen all five of the world's leading men spend time away from the circuit because of injuries, and the new measures have now become a priority, according to Roger Eady, the Executive Director of the International Squash Players' Association. A 90-minute match would be reduced to about 50 minutes if this alteration was made.
Eady's next task is to persuade the International Squash Rackets Federation, the sport's governing body, that an experimental scoring system to nine-up, originally proposed to make the professional game more attractive to spectators, should now be tried for the sake of the health of the players.
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