Editor’s Note
By Jay D. Prince
It’s a given: we never really appreciate something until it’s gone. For squash players, that experience usually comes when we are injured. For just the second time in my thirty years...
World Doubles: From MetroSquash to Onwentsia, and Streamed to the World
By Chris McClintick
The 2015 J.P. Morgan & Trunk Club World Squash Doubles Championships commenced with the fanfare of the MetroSquash Academic & Squash Center’s grand opening in Chicago, Wednesday, May 6. Following the ceremonial,...
National Doubles Finds a New Home in Philadelphia
By Chris McClintick
Eighty-two years ago, the second U.S. Squash Doubles Championships were hosted on the court that invented the game at the Racquet Club of Philadelphia. Philadelphia has long been the American beacon of...
World Record Broken for Longest Squash Match
By James Zug
Brett Meyer and James Meyer, a father and son duo in New Zealand, are the Guinness Book of World Records holders for the longest squash singles match in history. They set the...
MetroSquash Opens New Facility
By James Zug
Photos by Marian Kraus
The MetroSquash Academic & Squash Center, the fourth stand-alone purpose-built urban squash youth enrichment facility in the U.S., opened this spring in Chicago.
The certificate of occupancy was issued on...
USOC Volunteer Coach of the Year Awarded to MetroSquash Mentor Paul M. Cussen
By James Zug
During the gala dinner at the biennial World Doubles tournament in Chicago, US Squash honored Paul M. Cussen with the United States Olympic Committee Volunteer Coach of the Year Award.
Cussen started his...
Salming Squash Shoes
By Pierre Bastien, Squash Equipment Blogger at squashsource.com
Salming squash shoes came onto the scene a few years ago, when England’s Adrian Grant started wearing the brand. Salming now sponsors a number of top men’s...
Seeking Length Supremacy
By Kim Clearkin
Director of Squash at San Francisco Bay Club
How often do you marvel at the top players when they hit a cross-court volley nick, ending the point in style? Do you wonder how...
SPA-light: Carl Baglio
Carol Baglio, University Club of New York
When did you first start playing squash doubles?
I used to dabble around with doubles for fun as a junior in Canada but nothing too serious. I played the...
Book Review: Play Better Squash by John Beddington
By James Zug
Forty-one years ago John Beddington wrote a tiny paperback squash manual, Play Better Squash, which was published in London by Queen Anne Press (the publishing house that Ian Fleming ran; perhaps the...