By Richard Eaton One little incident during Nicol David’s unforgettable recapture of the world title in Cairo was so prematurely revealing that it may pass into sporting folklore. The most successful player in the history of the game was trailing by two games to one against the gifted home hope Raneem...
By Chris McClintick Before a ball was hit at the 2014 SHOP.CA World Squash Federation Women’s World Team Squash Championship, former International Olympic Committee Vice President Dick Pound presented the world’s top women with a message of hope. “As I look around the room at the many delegates who will participate...
By James Zug This November US Squash received the largest pledge in its 110-year history. The Ganek Family Foundation contributed $2 million to establish the Ganek Family US Squash Head National Coach Fund. Paul Assaiante is now the Ganek Family US Squash Head National Coach. The Ganeks are longtime supporters of squash, including urban...

Squash King of Queens

By Chris McClintick Photographed by Samuel Vélez A downtown B train flashed by as it pulls into the 81st street station on the upper west side of New York City. The trek from the Wharton Performance headquarters, one block north of the Natural History Museum, south of Central Park then east to Chris...
By James Zug This summer Henri Salaun and Hashim Khan both died. It was like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, connected by their years together battling each other and at the same time fomenting the American Revolution and building the United States and then, fifty years to the day after...

Travels with Hashim

By Beth Rasin I only got to know Hashim during the last ten years in my role as producer of “Keep Eye on Ball: The Hashim Khan Story.” At ninety-something, Hashim joined our film crew, in 2005, for a two-and-a-half week trip to London and Pakistan. Hashim would absolutely insist in carrying...
In locker rooms and galleries, during van rides and post-game chats, people always talk about who does what in the game, about which celebrity is rumored to play, about which coach or player is more important. Squash Magazine has finally put it down on paper, in our first annual...
by Richard Eaton It felt as though the splash created at the U.S. Open, by awarding equal prize money to women, had sent ripples all the way across the Atlantic to the world's most venerable tournament. The ninety-two-year-old British Open saw Nicol David get back on track as a world-beater by...
by Satya Seshadri and Dov Kleiner In 1968, Dr. Quentin Hyder, an Englishman playing at the New York Athletic Club, snuck the nose of the softball game under the U.S. hardball squash tent by launching the first major softball tournament to be played on American soil. Graham Sharman, from Heights...