Major R Maniam. National Squash Champion & National Coach.

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he former Malaysian national squash champion, national coach, Director of Coaching and basically “Mr Squash of Malaysia” when met in New Delhi at the test event for the Commonwealth Games, confirmed that he will be accepting the two year extension. “It has been bliss for me here the last eight years and I see no reason not to stay on,” said Maniam who is certainly the most decorated Asian squash personality. He was inducted to the Asian Squash Federation last year and besides his position in India, he is also the Director of Coaching for the Asian Squash Federation (ASF) and World Squash Federation (WSF). He has conducted more than 200 coaching courses at various levels. And SRFi is also very happy with Mej Maniam because he is one-man squash machine for he not only is a coaching consultant, but he conducts coaching and umpires courses, umpires, trains technical officials, helps in administration – basically the same he was doing in Malaysia and was largely responsible for putting Malaysian squash in the world map. Indeed Malaysia’s loss is India’s and the world’s gain. But Maniam bears no grudges with Squash Racquet Association of Malaysia (SRAM). “I am still very close with SRAM and keep constant touch. I go back regularly to conduct courses in Malaysia and SRAM still consults me on coaching matters. In any case SRAM president, Datuk A. Sani Karim is also the president of ASF. Maniam said that he has been very satisfied in India because of the progress they have made in the game. In the Women’s world ranking, India has Joshna Chinappa ranked sixth and Dinika Pallkal ninth, while in Asian men’s ranking Saurav Ghosal is ranked fourth and 27th in the world. Saurav has defeated Asian top seed and Malaysian Mohamed Azlan Iskandar on four occasions Dipika was top seed in the world junior championship, but was ousted in the quarterfinals. “It is my hope before I leave India to see an Indian player emerge champion in the world championship, be it senior or junior championship. It is definitely not impossible with the progress made by the Indian players. “They are a very determined and motivated lot and squash has certainly grown tremendously in India has a good following,” said the father of three daughters. Mej Maniam is highly respected in India and everybody looks up to him as the “Guru of the Game”




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