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So will squash eventually rival tennis as a spectator
sport, and will Jansher Khan and Peter Marshall become as rich and famous
as Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi? Almost certainly not. For all
the gimmicks of a glasswalled court, a special white ball and more and
better cameras, squash remains fearsomely difficult to televise. Not
only does the ball move too fast but the camera lens foreshortens the
action. Squash, therefore, is destined to remain a sport better played
than watched. Given its propensity for what the tennis authorities term
"audible obscenities", that may be just as well.
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