PSA World Squash Championship 2026

Squash’s Biggest Global Stage

In May 2026, the PSA World Championships, squash’s largest global tournament, took place. Held over nine days, the tournament drew 128 of the world's leading players and carried a record prize pool of USD 1.3 million, the largest in the sport's history.  

The competition ran across nine days of matches, building to the men's and women's finals. Away from the courts, a nine-day fan zone gave the event a wider draw, with food markets, activations and a red-carpet player dinner bringing in longstanding followers and newcomers alike. With squash due to make its Olympic debut at Los Angeles 2028, the championships arrived at a moment of growing attention for the sport.

The KNOT Technologies Impact

KNOT delivered a fully white-labelled ticketing experience. Every step of the fan journey, from browsing to checkout, ran under the tournament's own brand, with no third-party name standing between the event and its audience.

KNOT also built the experience around interactive seat maps for fans, which turned seating into a revenue lever rather than a logistics exercise. Seats were priced by location and tier, so premium positions, court-side and centre, sold at higher prices instead of a flat rate, while fans picked exactly where to sit by choosing visually from the map. Pricing the best seats to match demand lifted the value captured on each sale and gave the organisers a live, accurate picture of the house as it filled.

The championships also ran a busy door. KNOT's box office put on-site, same-day sales on the same platform as online ticketing, so walk-up fans could be served and seated in seconds while every sale, online or at the gate, flowed into one real-time view. With spectators moving through the venue throughout the championships, that one unified system let the organisers run the entire operation from a single place, at the scale of a global event of this size demands.  

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