By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
No player in the history of the game can have received as spectacular a response to the capture of a World Open title as Amr Shabana did for his fourth, which surely secured his place in the pantheon of the greats. Despite this, it would...
By Jay D. Prince and Preston Quick
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
For years, the question has been asked: “When will an American reach the top-10 in the men’s World Rankings?” Along with that has been the question: “Will an American men’s team ever crack the top-10 in the World Team Championships.”...
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
The depth of the ordeal that Nicol David had endured became more apparent within moments of winning her fourth World Open after an initially hesitant but eventually beautifully taken 3-11, 11-6, 11-3, 11-8 victory over Natalie Grinham.
The heroine of all Asia sat down and...
By Anne Bello and Michael T. Bello
co-Editors of CollegeSquashAssociation.com
With new players, a new scoring method, new teams, and a new website, the 2009-2010 college squash season will build on the excitement of last year’s dramatic national championships.
In the 2009 Potter Cup finals, Trinity battled Princeton for the men’s team...
By Jay D. Prince
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
Two years after it was last staged, in New York City, the U.S. Open made a triumphant return to the squash landscape in the United States. And while the one-year experiment in Gotham City, on the heels of nine years in Boston, struggled to gain...
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
It’s 87 years old and it almost died. But the old tourney, the parent of the international game, and the talismanic event on the PSA Tour even in its more recent ailing condition, was given a kiss of life and injected with fresh hopes...
By James Zug
This past year, three nonagenarians and one great writer died, leaving our squash landscape a lot less vivid. These four men were all iconoclasts: they were outspoken leaders and their outsized personalities left deep, historically unique imprints across our country.
John Cornish
Former Mass SRA president and the last...
Going Online
Since the conversion to an online system in 2004, U.S. SQUASH has been focused on improving the accuracy of the Adult ratings and rankings. The Junior ratings and rankings had initially received more attention than the Adults due to the large quantity of data and large tournament playing...
By U.S. SQUASH
Spicy would be one word that well describes not only the food, but also the U.S. Junior Women’s two weeks of international competition at the 2009 World Junior Squash Championships hosted by the Squash Rackets Federation of India in Chennai from July 29 to August 8, 2009....
By Jennie Shulkin
What happens when nine thousand Jewish athletes from 54 countries come together to compete in Israel? A life-changing experience that will not be forgotten by anyone involved.
Every four years, Israel hosts the World Maccabiah Games, the third largest international sporting event after the Olympics and the Pan...