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How Saurav Ghosal’s World Premier Squash is changing notion of sports leagues

How Saurav Ghosal’s World Premier Squash is changing notion of sports leagues

Squash might be the first sport to on-board whole-scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, while compiling its player base for the upcoming World Premier Squash, to be played in August of 2026. And India’s finest baller Saurav Ghosal is in the thick of all things innovative and disruptive, as the sport’s league Commissioner, having been part of the core group that thought up the idea. “Of course it’s exciting and if I may call it, a ‘seismic shift’ in Squash, and I must thank the Professional Squash Association (PSA) who has an open mind and endorsed it,” he says of a radically different way in which the global league will be conducted. The sport, due to debut at the Olympics in 2028 Los Angeles, is forging a simultaneous new trail, which for one, opens up the league to rank outsiders and amateurs, who might be playing squash in a complete obscure corner of the world, and not even have a ranking on the Pro Tour. It’s the same seismic change that reality TV shows brought to …