New Champions At 2013 U.S. Open Doubles

By Chris McClintick The second annual joint Squash Doubles Association (SDA) and Women’s Doubles Squash Association (WDSA) U.S. Open Squash Doubles Championships crescendoed with the first SDA semifinal...

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...

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...

Mr. and Mrs. U.S. Open: Trophy Husband, Trophy Wife

By James Zug It was a storybook ending to a rollicking ten-day celebration of squash excellence: Nour El Tayeb and Ali Farag, a married couple,...

World Open – a double atonement

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...