Chris Stahl a member and a player at the Marsa Squash Club was elected as Vice President of the World Squash Federation. Stahl was voted onto the board along with Heather Deayton (Hong Kong) and Gerard DeCourcy (New Zealand)

Mr Ramachandran has become the first Indian President of the World Squash Federation (WSF) after being elected to the position at the Federation’s 38th Annual General Meeting in Manchester.

Earlier, in one of the most controversial issues handled at an AGM in recent years, the delegates voted overwhelmingly to adopt a new universal ‘Point A Rally’ scoring system for Squash, to 11 points per game - as is currently the case in the professional game for both men and women and juniors throughout Europe.

The sport’s new official scoring system will come into effect from 1 April 2009. The subject had earlier caused considerable debate, with delegates calling for the Federation to show leadership - particularly in view of the sport’s Olympic aspirations - to move to the scoring system which was not only enhancing the appeal of squash, but had already been universally adopted in a number of countries around the world.