By James Zug
Photos by Michael T. Bello
The night before the finals of the 2009 national intercollegiate team tournament, Paul Assaiante pulled Chris Binnie out of the No. 9 spot. The sophomore from Kingston, Jamaica, had some niggling injury to his hamstring, and more to the point, a crisis of confidence. He...
By James Zug
The 5th annual U.S. Squash Century Doubles Championships were held in New York in February 2011. Kit Tatum again hosted the tournament at the University Club, with additional play at CityView, New York Athletic, Racquet & Tennis and Union Clubs.
Tatum grew up in Toronto and learned his...
By James Zug
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
Ramy Ashour won the 2011 J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions, but it was his older compatriot, Amr Shabana, who stole the show in his epic semifinal loss to Nick Matthew.
The Prince of Cairo, Shabana is called. He is royalty, but I prefer the nom de...
By James Zug
Photos by Dick Druckman
Squash Magazine’s senior writer James Zug is back with another book. In the summer of 2003 we proudly ran an excerpt from Squash: A History of the Game, which came out that fall from Scribner. It was a best-seller in the squash world and...
By James Zug
The answer: they are in Wilmington.
Not Delaware but North Carolina. They golf not squash. They garden. They are retired, but they still work part-time publishing an annual magazine, Wilmington Today.
The question: where are they now?
Tom Jones and Hazel White Jones were the first couple of squash for...
By James Zug
Photos by Dick Druckman
Upon clinching a 11-6, 11-6, 11-4 win in his match against Yale, Baset Chaudhry stooped down and for three or four seconds yelled at Kenny Chan. He then left the court, without shaking Chan’s hand, and hugged some teammates and his parents. It was...
By James Zug
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
John Nimick has produced thirty-one glass court events. The Hall of Famer has survived economic meltdowns, untold numbers of meetings and the horrific asperity of September 11th. And still managed to put on first-class tournaments.
While we calculate, consider this: it was the thirteenth time...
By James Zug
The richest squash tournament in the Western Hemisphere is one way to look at the $145,000 Briggs Cup.
Another is to see how it affects the CitySquash program on a randomly-picked day. I asked Tim Wyant, CitySquash’s director, to pick one. So he did. On this Thursday, a...
By James Zug
This past year, three nonagenarians and one great writer died, leaving our squash landscape a lot less vivid. These four men were all iconoclasts: they were outspoken leaders and their outsized personalities left deep, historically unique imprints across our country.
John Cornish
Former Mass SRA president and the last...
By James Zug
Photos by John Lau
The World Hardball Doubles is a pretty venerable title for a world championship. It is as old as the official World Juniors, and only six years younger than the World Open singles. The men’s draw was started in 1981 when Mohibullah Khan & Clive...