Tompkins Tames the Upset Beast
By James Zug
Back in 1907 young Fred Tompkins invented a game. He called it squash doubles. He used the fastest balls he could find and an unused space that happened to be 45 by...
Joint Health
By Candace Chemtob, B.S. and M.S. in Human Nutrition
Knees, shoulders, hips, back... Joint problems can bring a squash career to a quick halt. Longevity in your sport could have a lot to do with...
The Five Wise Men of the Front Court Game: Why, When, What, How, and...
By Richard Millman, Owner - The Squash Doctor Corporation
For reasons that are not always immediately clear, we of the Squash playing community seem to lose all sense of reason when finding ourselves with an...
Hey Ref! An ‘Official’ Q&A
By Barry Faguy, WSF Referees and Rules Committee
HEY REF!: Often, when there is no real interference, my opponent asks for a let, claiming 'safety'. I figure if I'm not in the way, then he...
Range of Motion (ROM) The Freedom to Move
By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist
Many players have come to the end of their competitive season in the US which typically begins to wind down from mid-March onwards, with the only major...
Century Doubles
The 2013 U.S. Century Doubles Squash Championships were held February 22-24, 2013 in New York City with Eben Hardie and William Villari winning the Century Open division.
As the name suggests, the tournament requires the...
Publishers Note The Eyes Have It
By Jay D. Prince
Iritis. Vitreous and/or Retinal Detachment. Floaters. Flashing light in peripheral vision. It doesn't take much thought to guess that I'm talking about issues relating to our eyes. And it certainly is...
Ramy Rolls in Richmond
By Jay D. Prince
Egyptian maestro Ramy Ashour mastered the tenacious challenge of England's Nick Matthew to win the Davenport North American Open.
Ashour, appearing in his fifth consecutive final of the PSA World Series squash...
Peaking for Matches
By Peter Nicol, former World No. 1
So you've done the hard work, you're physically fit and technically better than ever but you just cannot convert these qualities into your match play. This has got...
The Real Finkelman
By James Zug
For thirty years the Eric R. Finkelman Award has been the highlight of the Lapham-Grant weekend. The U.S. v. Canada matches date back to 1922 and thus are the oldest annual international...