By Kristi Maroc
It was a victory for the USA in the women's draw of the 2013 World Doubles Championships, with home heroines Amanda Sobhy and Natalie Grainger taking the title in the Turner Women's Open division.
Held in New York and brining together the world's best hardball doubles players, the...
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
When you are the first person from your country ever to receive its highest recognition for arts, sports, science or humanity, you probably feel as though you are not entitled to lose the World Open.
That is the degree of status which Nicol David has...
By James Zug
It was about storytelling.
Beneath the carapace of elegance and the thick scrim of black-tie and evening gowns and silver scoops of potato leek gratin and tangerine segment and cabernet reduction, it was just a brace of old and new friends gathered together and telling stories.
We heard about...
Photos courtesy of Princeton University
A five time national singles champion, who also owned a 117-15 win-loss record as coach of the Princeton women’s squash team that won 12 intercollegiate national team titles during her 20 year coaching career, Betty Howe Constable looms large in the history of US squash....
By James Zug
This month is the 25th anniversary of the first U.S. national softball tournament. With the dominance of softball today in America—the mass conversions of the 1990s, the incredible retreat of hardball—it is strange to imagine that the first sanctioned softball nationals was held just a quarter century...
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...
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 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...
By James Zug
It was a perfect storm. People adored the man. People really liked to play and watch squash doubles with the best. People wanted to help one of the urban squash programs. People enjoyed loitering around an old-school, cozy country club. And when those people were in one of...