LINGFIELD man Tim Garner is preparing for an adventure this week as he embarks on a challenge to play squash in seven different continents in seven days.
The former world number 26 is taking on the challenge with former world number one Peter Nicol, who visited East Grinstead Sports Club back in November.
The pair are taking on the 7 Continent Challenge to promotes squash's bid to get into the Olympics in 2020 and to raise money for two different charities; LV> SOS Kit Aid, which helps recycle sports kit for the benefit of young people in the UK and abroad, and The Natasha Drake Trust, which aims to help a young squash player rebuild her life after an idiopathic bleed on the brain left her paralysed.
Garner, who lives in Lingfield, is looking forward to the challenge, but says it will be difficult with all the travelling.
"It is definitely going to be an adventure," he said.
"We wanted to do something that would help the profile of squash's bid for the Olympics.
"It is going to be very tiring and will be quite tough physically for us.
"But it will be interesting to see how we cope and we are both looking forward to it."
The challenge begins on Saturday in the Falkland Islands, before the pair travel to such places as Chile, Australia, Malaysia, Egypt, London and New York.
Garner said there had so far been a good response to the pair's challenge, adding that he hoped there would be a good crowd to support them in each of the venues in which they play.