By James Zug
When Gregory Gaultier won the 2015 Men’s World Squash Championships, the scene was perhaps as dramatic a moment as we have ever seen at the forty-year-old event. Gaultier was avenging nine years of agony.
The finals of the 2006 World Open, held in front of the Pyramids of...
by James Zug
In January 2010 just before the men’s final of the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions, two teenaged girls from New York stepped out onto the portable glass court in Grand Central Terminal played a quick exhibition match. The taller girl won 3-1.
Her name was Amanda Sobhy.
Six years...
by James Zug
Parity is the watchword at the Delaware Investments United States Open. Two years ago, the national championship became the first major in the squash world to have equal prize money for men and women.
Ironically, one of the complaints during the move to parity in 2013, among some...
By James Zug
Take yourself back to the 1961 National Singles. The men are playing at Penn. In the quarters Charlie Ufford faces his former Harvard classmate
Dave Watts. They are old friends and former teammates. They play together in New York. Ufford has almost always won—he played No. 1 and Watts No. 2 when they were at Harvard—and Watts...
By Michael Kearns and Ryan Rayfield
Not all social networks are built in front of glowing monitors with a Mountain Dew and a bag of Cheetos at hand. There are some social networks in which participation is outright good for your health—like squash. Using tools from the emerging field of...
In locker roomsand galleries, during van ridesand post-game chats, people talk about who does what in the game, about which celebrity is rumored to play, about which coach or player is more impactful on the game. For the second year in a row, Squash Magazine has finally put it...
By Chris McClintick
Photos by Paige Stewart
“In an indifferent Toronto, the Pan Am Games Land With a Thud,” read a headline in The New York Times one day before the quadrennial Games’ opening ceremony. Earlier that week, Toronto’s Mayor John Tory even voiced frustration with his city’s lacking reception of...
On February 7, 2003, a terrorist bomb exploded at Club El Nogal, Bogota's leading squash club. Thirty-six people were killed and more than 200 were wounded, including Catalina Pelaez.
It was a normal Friday. I woke up and went to school and then I went to my club to play...
By James Zug
Jesus David Flores is the youngest of four brothers. He is eleven, a fifth grader, a wiry, fresh-eyed, inquisitive kid. His father is a mototaxista—he drives a motorcycle taxi around Cartagena. Jesus joined Squash Urbano Colombia in December 2014, a couple of weeks before the program officially started.
He has...
By James Zug
Earlier this summer, I went to my local club and got on the squash court with Richard Millman. An Englishman who has been coaching in the States for a quarter century, Millman is known for innovative, out-of-the-box thinking (he promotes the iMask, for instance). We played hard...