Squash Racquet Nitty-Gritty
by Pierre Bastien
When you’re just getting started in squash, picking a racquet is often as simple as finding one in your price range and going with it. But as your game improves, you’ll probably...
Local Call: See Something, Say Something?
“Did you see that?” “Did you hear that?” Although at many tournaments, crowd reactions—ooohs and aahhs, cheers and shouts of encouragement—are commonplace and players are expected to play through extra noise, this is not...
Sneaking in: Coach Paul Selby Tells About How He Started Playing Squash
Outside The Glass, the world’s leading squash podcast, is a radio show with a new episode coming out at the beginning of each month. Paul Selby is the longtime English coach, director of Off...
US Squash Academy Trains Future American Champions
by Chris McClintick
It was the middle of July, and Roger Federer’s voice echoed down the hallway from the Tansill classroom in Trinity College’s Ferris Athletic Center. Six prospective American squash professionals listened intently as...
Squash Saved My Life
By Stephen Weber
In high school I started sports in courts with a little tennis, and while in college in Minnesota, I picked up handball. When I was twenty-eight, my econometrics professor in graduate school...
Will’s World: The Fade
By Will Carlin
Ten years ago, I had a conversation with James Willstrop—the future number one player in the world.
James explained how hard it is for spectators to really understand a squash match between...
My Heart’s Beating Like A Rabbit: Racquet Sports in Film
By James Zug
Cinematically, racquet sports are mostly used as a metaphor. The scenes reveal a character’s physical prowess and mental strength or a power struggle between protagonists. Or it is simply about making someone...