It is one of seven sports bidding to be chosen by the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) ruling Executive Board in Berlin tomorrow.

Golf and rugby sevens are considered the front-runners but there is also a lot of support for squash, which narrowly failed to be included in the programme for the London 2012 Olympics.

David, who has won the world title three times and been ranked as the world number one since January 2006, is desperate for the sport to be included.

The 25-year-old Malaysian said: “Just having competed in the World Games has whetted all our appetites for the chance to compete in the Olympics, the greatest sports event on earth.

"If we get selected, as we hope so much that we will, the seven years until 2016 will fly by.

"I am ready to start my training programme now."

Natalie Grainger, the President of the Womens International Squash Players Association (WISPA) and world number two behind David, said: “There could be no greater achievement for squash than to become an Olympic sport.

"Squash is primed and ready to take advantage of such a wonderful opportunity of becoming part of the Olympic Movement.

"Squash has produced some great athletes, all of whom are crying out for that sacred moment to compete on the greatest of sporting stages, hoping for glory - the Olympic Games.”

Alex Gough, the chief executive of the Professional Squash Association, said: “Squash is a vast and ever growing sport, played by 20 million people in 175 countries.

"We at the PSA, represent those at the top level of the game, but there is no doubt that being an Olympic sport would resonate with everyone who plays, especially the young players across the world who would have something amazing to aim for and aspire to."

Britain's Nick Matthew (pictured), the men's world number five who recently won the gold medal at the World Games, said: “Standing on the podium at the World Squash Games in Taipei being presented with the Gold medal emphasised, even more than before, what it must be like to win a medal at the Olympic Games.

"The feeling at a multi-sport games is somehow different to a normal world ranking event and it would be just amazing if we were included.”

World Squash Federation (WSF) President, N Ramachandran, said: “The entire sport of squash is united behind the bid for inclusion in the Olympic Games.

"The professional tours would change their schedules in Olympic years to ensure that the Olympic Games would be in its rightful place at the very pinnacle of sporting achievement possible.

"On behalf of squash players the world over I hope that the IOC see the potential of our wonderful sport.” 

Other sports hoping to be included are baseball, karate, roller sports and softball.