U.S. Squash has announced the national team selected to represent the United States at the 2013 World Men's Team Championships in June.
The event is the highest level team championship in the world, involving the best players from 32 countries, and will be held in France for the first time...
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 matches in the game of squash. The weekend has always been known for off-court hijinks...
By James Zug
It was a spectacular point and unlike most spectacular points, the entire tournament — and possibly much more — hinged on it.
In football you have The Drive and The Catch and The Play (possibly also The Fumble but there are two of them); in basketball you sort of...
By James Zug
Squash has gone south. The McArthur Squash Center at the Boar’s Head Sports Club in Charlottesville, Virginia, opened in May 2013. The 33,000 square-foot building boasts a four-wall, white-ball glass showcourt with stadium seating for 50, bleachers for 250 and standing room for another 700. In addition,...
By James Zug
It was never supposed to work out like this. In the summer of 1981, Princeton’s athletic director asked Bob Callahan, newly-married IBM salesman, to be on a search committee to find a new coach for the Princeton University men’s squash team. He was a recent alum, former...
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/squashpics.com
There were many well-publicized reasons why Ramy Ashour’s capture of the British Open title—at a pioneering outdoor venue in Hull City’s soccer stadium—has carried him further along the road to greatness. But one of the reasons was hidden. Quite possibly the most important one.
Much...
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/squashpics.com
There was a throw-away hint as to why the world’s most successful squash player might suffer her most startling defeat in four years, not long before the British Open began.
It was uttered by her coach Liz Irving, when asked if Nicol David’s great ambassadorial...
By Kristi Maroc
Photos by Steve Line/squashpics.com
As fans across the globe crowded around screens to watch the top players from 31 countries compete on three sideby- side glass courts that were simultaneously streamed live around the world, capacity crowds gathered in Mulhouse, France, to cheer from the sidelines at the...
By Richard Eaton
A few days after Nicol David had extended her record of World Open titles to seven it emerged just how much of a watershed in her career this latest success might be.
Instead of travelling from Grand Cayman in the Caribbean to her own island idyll of Penang...
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/squashpics.com
Ramy Ashour’s recapture of the world title amidst the soaring city of Doha completed a shift in power at the top of the game and highlighted a pilgrimage of rescue for the sport’s most entertaining player.
A few years ago Doha was little more than...