PSA World Tour Finals
The PSA World Tour Finals (formerly Super Series Finals and World Series Finals ) are a squash tournament that is played at the end of each season of the PSA World Tour . The eight best players of the current season will qualify and play for the title.
history
The tournament series was held for the first time in 1992. The grand finale took place annually in Switzerland , where the eight best players from the Super Series tour at the time played for one of the most prestigious professional titles. The tournament with one of the highest prize money on the tournament calendar was relocated to a department store complex, the Galleria in Hatfield , England , following a broken deal with the previous main sponsor of the Zurich Vitis Club . In 1995 the tournament was canceled due to unexplained sponsorship. The Pakistani Jansher Khan dominated the event in the beginning when he was able to secure the title four times in five attempts.
In 1999 the tournament moved to the Broadgate Arena in London before a new main sponsor was found in 2003. In 2006, for the first time, the first place on the then Super Series Tour , the Canadian Jonathon Power, did not take part in the final. After reaching his final goal of becoming world number one again a month earlier, he ended his career without defending his 2005 title again. In 2006 the final took place in Manchester for the first time . From 2009 to 2012, the final was held at the Queen's Club in London , before it takes place in Richmond , USA from 2013 .
From 2010 the tournament series operated under the name World Series . In the very first final tournament under the new name, the final between Nick Matthew and Amr Shabana could not be played. After a severe storm, the statics of the inflatable cube in which the tournament was held was damaged and found to be unsafe. On August 16, 2011, half a year after the final was canceled, the PSA announced that the final would definitely not be made up; there was no official winner. For the 2018/19 season , the final tournament was renamed PSA World Tour Finals , and the qualification mode changed, since it was no longer just the points from the tournaments in the highest rating category that counted, but all world ranking points accumulated over the season.
Previous winners
1 In 2004 the PSA changed the counting method; instead of until 15, they only played until 11
Web links
- World Tour Finals Leaderboard: Current status on psaworldtour.com (English)
- Results on squashinfo.com (English)