{"id":176632866,"date":"2024-01-31T15:53:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632866"},"modified":"2024-01-31T15:53:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:53:15","slug":"toc-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632866","title":{"rendered":"ToC 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What an incredible event, per usual. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the gossip: Nour El Sherbini&#8217;s parents were with her at the tournament in part to help her shop for a dress for her wedding this summer. Selection is good in New  York, her father Atef told me, but the prices in Dubai are much better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While one great player stepped down this month (Olivia Blatchford Clyne) another might be coming back. Camille Serme might rejoin the tour. The thirty-four year-old former world No.3  is training again full-time. Perhaps her first event will be the Paris Squash Open 2024 in September, poised to be at a new site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another legend in Grand Central was eyeing a comeback, but more towards full health. Anders Wahlstedt, the Swedish international, former world No.18 and  U.S. national champion, was there watching the matches. (Wahlstedt is the answer to one of squash&#8217;s great trivia questions\u2014&#8221;who beat Geoff Hunt in Hunt&#8217;s final appearance in the British Open?&#8221;) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-squash-magazine wp-block-embed-squash-magazine\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"GN9Mh4dBKw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/squashmagazine.com\/2014\/05\/the-two-swedes\/\">The Two Swedes<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The Two Swedes&#8221; &#8212; Squash Magazine\" src=\"https:\/\/squashmagazine.com\/2014\/05\/the-two-swedes\/embed\/#?secret=mfhYtwP1po#?secret=GN9Mh4dBKw\" data-secret=\"GN9Mh4dBKw\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In October while biking along the Hudson River, Anders was sideswiped by an electric bike messenger who was looking at his phone. It was a traumatic accident\u2014he spent a fortnight in the hospital\u2014and a long recovery still in process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an incredible event, per usual. Some of the gossip: Nour El Sherbini&#8217;s parents were with her at the tournament in part to help her shop for a dress for her wedding this summer. Selection is good in New York, her father Atef told me, but the prices in Dubai are much better. While one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ToC 2024<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176632866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176632866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176632866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176632866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176632866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176632866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176632866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}