Link to full article:

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/healthiest-sport-courts-comeback-20120101-1pgxc.html

Excerpts:

"For the first time in decade, new (squash) courts are being built across Australia instead of being replaced by apartments, car parks, gymnasiums and shopping centres."

"There's definitely a revival." says triple world champion Michelle Martin.

"The rebirth (of squash) is not only good news for squash fanatics who have witnessed with sadness their game slowly decline from once being the second-most participated sport in Australia behind only netball."

"Leading US business magazine, Forbes, in 2010 declared squash the healthiest sport of all.

Forbes asked fitness experts to score a selection of sports in four areas - cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance and flexibility, and also incorporated scoring on calories burned and injury risk.

Squash won."

"As the saying goes, you don't play squash to get fit, you get fit to play squash."

"So squash is back, with an estimated 20 million people now playing in 185 countries."

UCSC Lives & Breathes with the Squash Comeback!