They are the best of the best. Seemingly psychotic when they launch themselves in an all-out “who-cares-how-much-it’s-going-to-hurt-later” attempt to return every single ball possible, some of the world’s top professional squash players routinely throw caution to the wind just to take one more swipe at the silly little white...
By James Zug
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
I could see it in the warmup. From the moment Gregory Gaultier came onto the court for the final of the Endurance World Open 2007, swept there by the flashing spotlights, the booming voice of Robert Edwards and the blasting theme song of the...
By Vidya Rajan
Photos by Jay Prince/SquashMagazine.com
It all began when I stepped into the court on Saturday morning to play a certain Salma Mohamed Ahmed Nassar, a girl who was effectively seeded 34th and who supposedly hailed from Cambridge, Massachusetts. I entered the court with a heady sense of confidence but...
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...