Story and Photos by Jay D. Prince
Sited just across the Embarcadero from the Ferry Building in beautiful San Francisco (CA), the $70,000 Net- Suite Open Squash Championships played to sold-out crowds for five chilly nights—and one close-call with heavy rain. Weathering the elements was France’s Gregory Gaultier who ran...
By James Zug
1989
We had lost to Harvard in the regular season in 1989, 6-3 in Cambridge. A week later we beat them in the semis of the first nationals team tournament at Yale. We beat them 7-2. And then we beat Princeton in the finals. It was theoretically...
SMAG-Books 12
Summer Reading: Herewith is our second literary salon where we review the latest books about squash. Three of the four books were self-published; the fourth was privately published- all can be obtained with easy online sleuthing...
By James Zug
A Shot and a Ghost: A Year in the Brutal World of...
News that the WSF Ambassador Program visit to Malawi has inspired a squash facility to be included in a new OlympAfrica Sports Center in the capital Lilongwe has been hailed by Squash Malawi President Jimmy Kawaye as “a huge, huge thing for the sport in our country.”
The WSF Ambassador...
You have empowered Namibian squash,” Tyc Kakehongo, National Administrator of the Namibian Squash Association, told record six-time women’s world champion Nicol David and twice world junior champion Mohamed El Shorbagy as the five-day WSF Ambassador Program visit to Namibia came to an end in the country’s capital Windhoek.
The WSF...
By James Zug
Drexel University’s symbol is the dragon. It is not the only college with a legendary serpentine reptile as a mascot (Minnesota State University Moorhead also fields dragons) but Drexel boasts an enormous, bronze, fire-breathing, claw-swiping dragon statue leaping on the southeast corner of 33rd and Market Streets....
By James Zug
The 2011 (Part Two) U.S. National Intercollegiate Doubles Championships came to Philadelphia as a part of the U.S. Open’s first weekend. After more than two decades of incubation and careful attention at the University Club of New York, including a tournament in March this year, the intercollegiate...
By James Zug
It is a sign of rude and robust health that the lingering feeling about the 2011 Women’s World Juniors Squash Championships was one of disappointment. On the surface, the tournament went off without a hitch, and the United States did beautifully. In the individual event, we had...
Two years after his older brother won the title for the second time, 17-year-old Marwan El Shorbagy clinched the 2011 WSF Men’s World Junior Individual Squash Championship crown at the Flemish Squash Centre in the Belgian town of Herentals.
Marwan and Mohamed El Shorbagy, currently ranked nine in the world,...
By James Zug
It is almost ten in the morning and Amanda Sobhy is finally coming to school. It is her senior year and she’s already been accepted to college and from outward appearances, she could be another teenager with senioritis, an overstuffed backpack slung over her shoulders, her eyes...