Sporting Digest: Squash

THE world federation will next month try to secure a place for squash in the 2000 Olympics. It will present its case to the International Olympic Committee at a meeting in Lausanne on 6 May. The sport has already secured places in the 1995 Pan-American Games and the 1998 Commonwealth Games.

FRENCH OPEN (Tours) First round: S Meads (Eng) bt J Williams (Aus) 15-4 13-15 17-16 12-15 17-16; T Hands (Eng) bt S Baker (Aus) 15-17

15-5 15-11 7-15 15-11; C Rowland (Aus) bt S Parke (Eng) 15-9 17-15 15-3; P Whitlock (Eng) bt P Steel (NZ) 15-9 15-12 15-11; C Dittmar (Aus) bt P Nicol (Sco) 15-11 15-7 17-15; J Bonetat (Fr) bt C van der Wath (SA) 13-15 15-7 15-8 15-14.