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28/11/2020
Tournament of Champions Cancelled
2021 J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions
Cancelled Due to COVID-19
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Professional Squash Association (PSA) can confirm that the J.P. Morgan
Tournament of Champions, a PSA World Tour Platinum event, will not take
place in 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The Tournament of Champions first took place in the Vanderbilt Hall at
New York City’s iconic Grand Central Terminal in 1995 and has been
staged there annually since 1999, with hundreds of thousands of
commuters watching world-class squash up close and for free.
The health and safety challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic mean
that it is not viable to host a professional sporting event in Grand
Central Terminal at this time, resulting in the difficult decision being
made to cancel the 2021 edition of the tournament.
PSA, J.P. Morgan and tournament promoter Squash Engine Inc. remain fully
committed to staging the Tournament of Champions in 2022, when J.P.
Morgan’s renewed three-year title sponsorship of the prestigious
tournament will commence.
"The Tournament of Champions is the oldest professional squash
championship in the world and has only been interrupted by World War II
and the few years that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis led the movement to
preserve and renovate Grand Central Terminal. We are quite disappointed
for the global squash community and all of the top professional players
that 2021 will mark another forced interruption," said Tournament
Promoter and Squash Engine Inc. President John Nimick.
"Grand Central Terminal is one of the most unique venues in squash as it
is a major transit hub and completely public and, as such, there were a
range of factors we had to consider when making this decision, with the
health and safety of everyone involved at the forefront of our thinking.
"I’d like to thank J.P. Morgan for their support and commitment to the
Tournament of Champions and we all look forward to working with them
closely as we look to bring the Tournament of Champions back onto the
PSA World Tour calendar in 2022."
For further updates from the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions, visit
the tournament website here
ToC.
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