The tournament will help improve ranking points of players and will offer a prize
purse of Rs. 5,00,000
December 22, 2016, Greater Noida, India: HCL, a leading global conglomerate, today
announced the launch of HCL Junior Squash Championship – a four star National Junior
Circuit, to be hosted from December 24 – 28, 2016 at the Shiv Nadar University, Greater
Noida. The Championship which is HCL’s first ever initiative to promote Squash offers a
serious platform to young upcoming players in the country. 30 percent of the total 268
players who have registered for the Championship include top national rank holders from
each category. The total prize purse for winners across all categories is Rs. 5,00,000/-. The HCL Junior Squash Championship is one of the highest level tournaments in the country
and is being organised under the aegis of The Squash Racket Federation of India and the
Uttar Pradesh Squash Rackets Association to promote the sport at a competitive level. The
Squash Racket Federation of India manages the profiles and ranking of the players and has
been promoting squash in India and abroad. The Championship will be a knock-out format followed by play-offs of the top 8 positions in
all categories. The top players will receive ranking points and will be included in the National
Junior ranking list in the relevant age group. It will be open to both, boys and girls in
separate categories and has been further sub-categorized into the Under-11 (Boys & Girls), Under-13 (Boys & Girls), Under-15 (Boys & Girls), Under-17 (Boys & Girls) and Under-19
(Boys) categories. Speaking on the initiative, Sundar Mahalingam, Chief Strategy Officer, HCL Corporation
said, “Promoting sports is an integral part of HCL’s brand philosophy which aims at touching
people’s lives. As part of our initiatives, we are happy to launch the first edition of HCL Junior
Squash Championship which will aim to provide an opportunity to the players to hone and
develop their skills in a competitive environment.” Cyrus Poncha, Chairman SRFI National Circuit and National Coach, Squash Rackets
Federation of India said, “We are very pleased to be associated with The HCL Junior
Squash Championship and see this as a further testimony to the bright future of the sport in
the country. We look forward to working closely with HCL to promote the game in the country
and provide more opportunities to young and talented future stars of Squash. The sport is
played in almost 175 countries and we are hopeful that squash will one day be a household
name similar to cricket and tennis.” About HCL
Founded in 1976 as one of India’s original IT garage start-ups, HCL is a pioneer of modern computing with
many firsts to its credit, including the introduction of the 8-bit microprocessor-based computer in 1978 well
before its global peers. Today, the HCL enterprise has a presence across varied sectors that include
technology, healthcare and talent management solutions and comprises four companies – HCL Infosystems, HCL Technologies, HCL Healthcare and HCL TalentCare. The enterprise generates annual revenues of
over US $7 billion with more than 110,000 employees from 100 nationalities operating across 31 countries,
including over 500 points of presence in India. For further information, visit www.hcl.com.
For further information, please get in touch with:
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Sadaf Khan
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