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Fresh from their
sponsorship coup of the fourth National Games in Banglore Videocon
International have caused eyebrows to be raised by setting a record of
sorts for a local squash event. They are sponsoring the Videocon Squash Classic to the tune of Rs.4 lakhs. It will be held in the last week of June and will feature all the major players of the city and some from outside. The tournament, the first of the season, is a culmination of persistent efforts of Mahendra Agarwal, Director of Indian Squash Professionals. He is fervently hoping the tournament gets good response from players, officials and media so that sponsorship of the game can go from strength to strength and make it broad -based. |
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VISION IN SQUASH |
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The eye is the main
human organ of sense. Visual search is selective, both from a quantitative
point of view, and a qualitative point of view. The subject perceiving
concentrates central vision on a few elements, estimating the most
important, and committing to peripheral vision the acquisition of the
greater part of the data. Visual search is
organised as well as selective. For each task there is a best model of
visual information pick-up. We acquire such strategy during training, in a
way which is predominantly unconscious. Studies conducted in racquet sport
evidence a different visual behaviour according to experience level. In
fact, novices watch the initial part of the stroke trajectory, while
expert players watch the movement of the arm and racquet before the
stroke. The coach’s explanation of the best visual behavior, especially
if preceded by analysing previous errors by the pupil, improves the
formation of the strategy. Therefore, it is obvious that the important
task are. 1. Identifying the best
visual behavior pertinent to the various task, 2. Making the pupil
conscious of the wrong ones and 3. Explaining the best
ones. We will give another
example. The arrangement of objects, up to 15% of eccentricity in the
frontal plane, occurs through a saccad ( displacement of the eye for a
retinal anchorage); over this value a displacement of the head intervenes
( for a cephalic anchorage on the target. The eye can pursue with saccad
objects moving at the spread of 30% in the frontal plane. Therefore in
many sports, like Squash, in which it is impossible to follow the ball,
some strategies of visual information pick- up are adopted. The expert players, by
looking, wait for the ball at a point, where they expect it to arrive,
orienting during the action with peripheral vision ( while the head
follows the ball). This strategy is preferable, because it is more
effective than following the ball for the whole trajectory. The best
visual information pick - up permit expert athletes also to anticipate in
a more patient and fast way. The visual search
preceding this action depends, in general, upon extrinsic elements as
regards the subject, such as the information which he gets on the task and
its nature, and upon intrinsic element, such as the individual disposition
and, especially, the subject’s experience and the use which he intends
to make of the visual information. Experience is the main element which determines the visual and anticipation, as is proved by the fact that the strokes performed by left - handed players are recognised with more difficulty than those performed by right - handed, which occurs because left- handed players are less numerous. |
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NEWS |
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EASTERN INDIA This tournament was held from 4th – 9th February 1997 at Calcutta. The one thing exceptional here other then the prize money was the performance Gajendra Singh of Jodhpur, who upset 4th seed Kalia and entered the semifinals, Arjan Singh reigned supreme defeating Rajdeep Brar in the finals. DSM NORTHERN INDIA This tournament was held from 5th - 9th March 1997 at Delhi. Again the notable feature here was Gajendra Singh’s victory over Dhiraj Singh in the quarter final. Rajdeep Brar repeated his Eastern India performance by beating Ravinder Malik in the semi finals in straight games. Arjan Singh beat Brar again in straight games 9-5, 9-5, 9-3 to win the event. The Women’s event which had barely six entries as won by Mekhala Subedar. The over 35 event was won by Ravinder Malik and the over 45 eve0nt by Lalit Varma who beat Vikas Kapoor in the finals. CHANDIGARH OPEN Must hold the dubious distinction of being the smallest tournament in the country in respect of both prize money as well as entries. Most of the participants were locals. A substandard squash court, lack of accommodation for outstation players and paltry prize money are obvious reasons for its lack of success. Surely the organisers must be grateful to some top players like Arjan Singh and the Services team for participating in the tournament. For the third year in a raw Arjan Singh defeated Rajdeep Brar in the final played on 20th March 1997. This tournament has potential as the ambience is great and the hospitality warm. NICOLE SHOCKS JANSHER Peter Nicol of Scotland caused the biggest upset of 1997 when he upset world No. 1 Jansher Khan of Pakistan to win the Al-Ahram Open in Cairo. Nicol had lost to Jansher in the British Open final earlier. He won 12-15, 15-14, 15-12, 15-11. |
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