Episode 239 Karim Darwish

Since his retirement in 2014, former world #1 and current World Squash Federation VP Karim Darwish has been just has impressive off the court as he was while playing the PSA. Karim reached world #1 in 2009, becoming only the 2nd Egyptian to do so, and during an era which included the likes of Amr Shabana, Thierry Lincou, David Palmer, Jonathan Power, Nick Matthew, Peter Nicol amongst many other greats. Karim speaks about the glory days on tour and the post PSA chapter which includes spearheading the incredible growth of Wadi Daegla Darwish Squash Academies, growing the game throughout Egypt and his thoughts on global growth, the current PSA tour and the story behind IOC Chairman Thomas Bach's visit to the Egyptian Open, the recent WSF AGM and his take aways from that, and much more. Many thanks to our sponsor www.opensquash.org