A Conversation with Katline Cauwels
Linda Elriani, former world No. 3 and US Squash Senior Director of Professional Development and Programming, sat down with Katline recently to congratulate her on receiving the US Squash nomination for the USOPC National...
SDA World No. 1 Mathur Announces Retirement Ahead of David C. Johnson, Jr. Memorial
Manek Mathur, one of the most dominant and influential professional doubles players of the past decade, has announced his retirement from the Squash Doubles Association Pro Tour. New York City-based Mathur will bow out...
Egypt Rules the World at Historic Men’s World Teams in DC
By Chris McClintick
This past December in Washington, DC, the global pinnacle of men’s team squash, the World Squash Federation’s Men’s World Team Championship, arrived in the United States for the first time in the...
Gohar or Go Home: Nouran Gohar and Ali Farag Capture U.S. Open Titles
The finals of the 2019 FS Investments U.S. Open came within a half-inch of duplicating the 2017 edition, with the wife and husband team of Nour El Tayeb & Ali Farag again almost pulling...
Exit Stage Left: Nicol David & Ramy Ashour Retire
Within four weeks of each other this spring, Nicol David and Ramy Ashour, two of the greatest, most electrifying players in squash history, stepped down from the professional tour and retired. They had similar...
$1 Million: Professional Squash Hits Milestone in Chicago
By James Zug
One million. Never in the century-plus history of professional squash had a single tournament offered a seven-digit prize money purse.
In the recent past, there had been a smattering of events that upped...
Fancy a Flutter? Gambling Transforming Pro Squash
By James Zug
Gambling on sports has always been a complicated passion. In May 1536 Anne Boleyn was watching tennis at Whitehall Palace when a messenger from King Henry VIII asked her to present herself...
Mimicking the Pros
by Matt Lombardi
Growing up as a sports-crazed kid, there were few things I enjoyed more than watching great athletes on TV and then running outside, while their images were still burned on my retina,...
The Merger of Hardball and Softball
by James Zug
A quarter century ago, the men’s hardball and softball tours merged. On January 1, 1993 the World Professional Squash Association and the International Squash Players Association ceased to exist, replaced by the...