Thanks!  As a 73-year old ex-player, I agree!

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Well Christopher a lot of things should happen and be recorded but the sad fact is unless we make affiliation compulsory (very hard to enforce when almost nobody thinks it is necessary).  Why have affiliation? To get cash to employ staff to do these jobs and colate records of members, tournaments, history, centres, courts, pay for Committees to meet throughout the country to bring the sport closer together, etc.. The only records WSF keep are from affiliated Nations, who in turn keep records of affiliated countries, who in turn keep records of affiliated state associations, who in turn keep records of affiliated regional bodies, who keep records of affiliated clubs.  If anything is done by an unaffiliated squash club/centre the records probably just go in the bin after the presentation.

If all players were affiliated we would know how old our members are, what programs are being conducted by clubs, the number of participants, male or female, etc..there are lots of benefits to our sport.

I did not mean to go on and on but I see a sport go backwards because of the lack of cohesion.

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Pity!  I wonder why there are no records as the doubles game has been going for a long time!  Is there a list of all the doubles courts world wide?

Christopher

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I think you will be flat out finding records.  WSF have the history of the game and very little of Doubles prior to the 1990's.  I think you will have to take your Uncle's word for it.

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