NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (UPI) — Squash players from around the world began squaring off Friday in JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s “Tournament of Champions,” an international squash championship that has been conducted in New York’s Grand Central Terminal since 1995.
The annual tournament takes place in a specially constructed four-wall court in Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall. The arrangement came after four years of the championship being held at the Winter Garden in the World Financial Center, in downtown New York.
“It only took one look at Vanderbilt Hall to know it was perfect for a squash tournament: two halves of a 200′ long room bisected by a busy thoroughfare left a natural divide between a squash arena to the east and a hospitality and exhibitor area to the west,” {link:a statement on ToC’s website says.: “http://www.tocsquash.com/grand-central.html”,nw} “The glass squash court’s one-way viewing properties ensured we could present free spectating to thousands of passers-by, while hosting hundreds more fans with reserved seating.”
The tournament, now in its 18th anniversary at Grand Central, will go on until January 23.
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