DropShots WISPA
Full Steam Ahead for WISPA World Championships
The wheels on the bus go round and round.” And in the case of WISPA, they don’t seem to stop. WISPA recently signed a three-year partnership with Dutch...
Willstrop Wins at the Wharf
James Willstrop rules the Wharf. The 23-year-old Englishman won the tournament for the second time in its four-year history, claiming the first championship in 2004. On his way to the final, where he met...
England Reclaims European U19 Title
The England juniors have fixed a blip on the radar of their history. Last year England lost the European Junior U19 Team Championships title for the first time in the 20-year history of the...
Wellesley Back to Varsity!
The Wellesley squash team can breathe a huge sigh of relief, and give themselves one giant pat on the back. Squash has been reinstated as a varsity sport at Wellesley, after being stripped of...
90-Seconds With Anthony Ricketts
What was your welcome-to-professional squash moment?
I qualified for the first round of the 1997 British Open in Cardiff (which he lost to Mark Chaloner 3-0). That was my first big tournament on the...
Raging Waters Drown Westchester Squash
In what has been termed “a one in 500 year event,” Westchester County in New York was hammered by nearly eight inches of rain on April 15. Over 8,000 homes were flooded in Mamaroneck alone,...
U.S. Junior Silver and Bronze Championships
U.S. Junior Bronze Championships
The weekend of March 23-25 saw 150 players descend on the first-ever U.S. Junior Bronze Championships. The tournament was hosted at Dominic Hughes’ Berwyn Squash and Fitness Club in Berwyn, PA. With the...
Urban Team Nationals
Article courtesy of US Squash
Photos by Chris Smith
March 30-April 1 marked the fourth annual Urban Youth Squash Team Nationals, hosted at the SquashBusters Center at Northeastern University in Boston. The event brought together more...
The Values and Dangers of traditional lore in squash – towards a thinking game.
By Richard Millman, Director of Squash, Kiawah Island Club
If you are like most players you probably have several phrases that ring out in your mind as classic pieces of lore, if not outright law, in...
Who Am I Talking To Anyway? What the Referee needs to do before...
Rod Symington, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
A couple of years ago Jonathon Power was indulging during his match in one of his periodic “discussions” with the Referee, when he looked up at the packed...