A month before the 2007 Men’s World Team Championships, Egypt looked like a near certain winner with four players ranked in the World’s Top Ten. Though England was seeded No. 2 in the event, not many gave them much hope of winning with the likes of World No. 1...
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
Probably only Venus and Serena Williams, the two most iconic females in world sport, have achieved what Rachael and Natalie Grinham did when the sisters played each other in the World Open final before Madrid’s royal palace on a cool and elegant October evening.
Di...
By Beth Rasin
Photos by Beth Rasin and Chris Smith
"Babies and knee braces,” said Bridget DiBonaventura as she surveyed the bustling activity, including numerous children clambering across the bleachers, across the 13 courts at Harvard’s Murr Center. It was the 52nd playing of Howe Cup, the women’s national team championship...
By James Zug
Photos courtesy of Bert Armstrong
Looking for an old book? How about a British Open racquet from Geoff Hunt? A Johnny Skillman letter? A Sarah Fitz-Gerald stamp? A1907 squash salt trophy?
Go to Melbourne. There in Australia’s loveliest city is the world’s greatest collection of squash memorabilia. I wrote...
It was supposed to be an Egyptian confirmation, but instead the 2007 US Open became a British invasion. Forty-three years after the Beatles sent Americans into a tizzy on the Ed Sullivan Show, the US Open Squash Championships raised its curtain in its new home—the Roseland Ballroom.
Just a block from...
By Kirsten Carlson
On any given day, anything can happen. On November 16th, the brothers Talbott will have a dual on their hands, as Mark’s Stanford Cardinal—led by 2006 individual champ Lily Lorentzen—will face Dave’s rebuilt Yale team. Two days later, at Simon Squash Center on Williams’ College campus, the Harvard...
By James Zug
In October 1997 the first issue of Squash Magazine arrived in your mailbox. Some people then might have been surprised to see it reach its tenth birthday. The layout in that first issue was a bit choppy; the size was a bit small (24 pages, half its normal...
By Jay D. Prince
Ten years and 100 issues of Squash Magazine. Seems hard to believe, especially in light of the fact that it almost never even got off the ground. In fact, had things gone the way I’d originally hoped, Squash Magazine would be looking in the rear view...
By Trevor McGuinness
First, there was the Badger & Rosen SquashBusters facility at Northeastern University—a 29,000 square foot athletic center with eight squash courts, a state-of-the-art fitness center and classroom space that visionary Greg Zaff promoted and developed. A few years later, the Stephen L. Green StreetSquash Community Center began...
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
The more the capital letter questions were put in their full and startling details, the more they sounded hard to believe.
How could the highest paid, highest profile female squash player ever, fall so suddenly from the heights? How could the first Asian woman to...