British Open Squash Championships British Open Squash Championships The British Open Squash Championships is the oldest and most established tournament in the game of squash. It is widely considered to be one of the two most prestigious tournaments in the game, alongside the World Open (prior to the establishment of the World Open in the 1970s, the British Open was generally considered to be the "de facto" world championship of the sport.) The British Open Squash Championships are now often referred to as being the ""Wimbledon of Squash"". While there had been a professional men's championship for some years, the 'open' men's championship (for
2005 in British music and another Welsh composer, Karl Jenkins, released his "Requiem", which quickly topped the classical charts. Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, continued his series of Naxos Quartets with Nos. 6 and 7. Extracts from James Whitbourn's new oratorio, "Annelies" (based on "The Diary of Anne Frank") were first performed at the National UK Holocaust Memorial Day in Westminster Hall, London on 27 January; the full première of the work took place in April. The 2005 BRIT Awards winners were: A Special BRITs 25 Award for the best single from the past 25 years was awarded to Robbie