Women’s Pro Doubles Association In Transition As Founder Narelle Krizek Sells WDSA Tour To Suzie Pierrepont    
by Rob Dinerman

Dateline August 20th ---- This past Monday, Narelle Krizek, who along with her husband Rob founded the World Doubles Squash Association (WDSA) in 2007 to promote women’s doubles and give the sport’s top players a competitive forum and who has served as Tour Director throughout the eight-year span of its existence, sent a letter to all WDSA members announcing that she has sold the Association to Suzie Pierrepont. Krizek will become a Player’s Representative on the new Board and will help Pierrepont with the transition during the forthcoming season to ensure that the tournament directors have everything they need for their events to run smoothly throughout the 2015-16 campaign.

   Pierrepont, who has been Krizek’s doubles partner for the past six seasons in a collaboration that has resulted in 14 WDSA ranking titles, a record by a wide margin, including victories in the last 10 events they have entered dating back to their last loss in May 2012, graduated this past spring with a Masters in Business at Colorado University and plans to remain in Denver and run the Tour from there, with a view towards turning the WDSA into a players-run association. A former top-30 player on the WSA pro singles circuit and later its Tour Director for several years, she has also served as a teaching pro at clubs in Philadelphia and Rye and more recently as a hugely successful coach at Greenwich Academy, whose teams she routinely led to victory in both the U. S. High School Championships and the New England Interscholastic tournament.

  She and Krizek will still partner up for a few tournaments this coming season --- but this move brings to an end a noteworthy era in women’s squash. Women’s pro doubles was virtually non-existent before the Krizeks acted upon the vision they had nearly a decade ago and created an increasingly praiseworthy tournament schedule almost from scratch, with an emphasis on pro-am events, which proved enormously popular and well-subscribed, attracting sponsors and designating charitable organizations to benefit from many of the tour stops. The sparse three-event northeastern-corridor schedule of the inaugural 2007-08 season has mushroomed into an 11-tournament circuit, with stops all over the United States, and dozens of players and teams who were nowhere on the radar screen when the WDSA made its debut at the Greenwich Open in November 2007 are now making an increasing impact on the competitive spectrum. Krizek has been an integral contributor to all of these advances --- it would not be going too far to say that she has been the heart and soul of the WDSA --- and the hope is that Pierrepont can and will build on this legacy and lead the WDSA Tour to an even higher level.