Roland Watson

Roland Watson

Nationality:	South Africa South Africa
Playing hand:	Right
successes
Best placement:	7 (January 1978)
Sources: official player profiles at PSA and Squashinfo (see web links )

Roland Watson is a retired South African squash player .

Career

Roland Watson was active as a squash player in the 1970s and 1980s. His highest placing in the world rankings, he reached seventh place in January 1978. The South African national team he took in 1973 at the World Cup at home in Johannesburg in part, finishing with her third. From 1976 to 1982 he was six times in a row in the main draw of the individual world championships. His best result was getting into the quarter-finals in 1977 and 1979 . In 1982 he became the South African champion.

In 1980 his planned participation in the New Zealand Open , in which he had participated in 1977 and 1978, caused controversy. With reference to the Gleneagles Agreement , he was denied participation due to the apartheid policy in South Africa. The New Zealand government had put pressure on sports federations to question government grants if the agreement was violated. This led to a dispute between the men's players' union, the International Squash Players Association (ISPA), which under the then President Geoff Hunt initially suggested a boycott of the tournament to its players, and the New Zealand Association . With the mediation of the New Zealand president of the world association , Murray Day , the ISPA withdrew the boycott recommendation and left the decision to the individual players.

successes

South African champion: 1982

Web links

Player profile at squashinfo.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ History - Early days. In: squashsa.co.za. Squash South Africa , accessed September 6, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Joseph Romanos: Long or Short? The Story of New Zealand Squash . 1st edition. New Zealand Squash Hall of Fame , Waitakere 2010, ISBN 978-0-9864615-1-4 , pp. 172-173 .
↑ Annual Report and Accounts for Year Ending 30th September 1980. (pdf) Squash New Zealand , 1980, p. 1 , accessed on 6 September 2018 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Watson, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	South African squash player
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[1] History - Early days. In: squashsa.co.za. Squash South Africa , accessed September 6, 2018 .

[romanos-2] Joseph Romanos: Long or Short? The Story of New Zealand Squash . 1st edition. New Zealand Squash Hall of Fame , Waitakere 2010, ISBN 978-0-9864615-1-4 , pp. 172-173 .

[Vorwort1980-3] Annual Report and Accounts for Year Ending 30th September 1980. (pdf) Squash New Zealand , 1980, p. 1 , accessed on 6 September 2018 (English).