CHENNAI: The 2023 Chennai Squash World Cup will return as the premier battleground of squash competitors after a 12-year hiatus.
The tournament begins on June 13 and the final will be played on June 17. Eight countries will be participating in the tournament as India will be joined by Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, 2011 champions Egypt, South Africa, Australia, and Colombia. This will be the fourth edition of the tournament and features a revamped format as each team will have two men and two women, as opposed to two men and one woman in the previous editions, making four total representatives for each country. Every match will be first to seven points in a best-of-five in a round-
robin format which will feature a knockout stage after that.
The playing order for each team will either be woman-2, man-1, woman-1, man-2, or man-2, woman-1, man-1, woman-2, with the order being decided via coin toss. Man-1 and woman-1 will be awarded two points per win, while man-2 and woman-2 one point. The tournament will be hosted in the Express Avenue Mall in Chennai. Team India will feature Tanvi Khanna, Saurav Ghosal, Joshna Chinappa, and Abhay Singh.
