Alan Thatcher has been organising squash tournaments, big and small, for more than 20 years. He began with the Fosters Lager International Series featuring leading Australian stars Chris Dittmar and Ricky Hill, and has run the successful Maidstone Open for many years, achieving live TV coverage during one tournament which attracted many of the world's leading professionals to the Kent county town. He is co-promoter of the ISS Canary Wharf Classic (with Eventis Sports Marketing) and has also rescued and promoted the British Open, attracting an audience of 1,500 people to the Aberdeen Exhibition Centre when the event was built around local hero Peter Nicol. Alan also conceived and delivered the outstanding Liverpool Open 2006, staged at the amazing St George's Hall venue. It was the biggest tournament in Europe for more than five years and Alan arranged for two days of live TV coverage on Sky Sports, commentating on the semi-finals and final with James Willstrop.

Alan is proud to be a co-founder of World Squash Day, which was devised to honour the memory of Derek Sword, the New York squash champion who was killed in the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. World Squash Day has been successfully partnered with the World Squash Federation and events regularly take place in more than 40 countries as squash enthusiasts come together on one special day of the year to open their doors and show the world what a great spot we have. This year World Squash Day linked up with Sports Relief and next year (2009) it will be partnered with Comic Relief, the infamous Red Nose Day cavalcade of fun which raises millions of pounds for deserving causes.
Alan is currently planning some surprises for a new style of event designed specifically for TV. Watch this space.