$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...
Top Ten Reasons Why This Was the Greatest United States Open Ever
by James Zug
I Wow Times Infinity
It was packed. At the 2016 Delaware Investments United States Open, there were no gimmicks, no free pizza for Drexel students, no bouncy castle radar zones. It was the...
World’s First All-Glass Hardball Doubles Court a Hit with the Pros
By Kristi Maroc
The world’s first all-glass hardball doubles court was officially given the nod of approval by the world’s top players during the first-ever professional event to be held on the court and simultaneously...
Rock Me Like a Hurricane: WISPA Sweeps Through Cayman Islands
By James Zug
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
Five years ago, squash in the Caymans was on life support. Hurricane Ivan swept through the Cayman Islands in September 2004. Ivan, lest you forgot Katrina, was one of...
World Open: Fitz loses record but keeps job
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
“Yes, she can definitely keep her job!” Nicol David joked about Sarah Fitz-Gerald. Well, the sparring partner from Australia had just helped the Malaysian to a fifth World Open...
Queens and Princes at Grand Central
By James Zug
The eightieth J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions will be remembered for the
long-awaited arrival of a queen and the wildly exaggerated, misreported demise of a prince.
Nicol David had done everything in the game...
Ripples From Philadelphia to Hull
by Richard Eaton
It felt as though the splash created at the U.S. Open, by awarding equal prize money to women, had sent ripples all the way across the Atlantic to the world's most venerable...
Snoring Rhinos and Other Tales: a Review of Nick Matthew’s Memoir
By James Zug
Nick Matthew
Sweating Blood: My Life in Squash
Cheshire, England: internationalSportGroup, 2013
It is a shame but inevitable. Like everywhere else in their careers, Nick Matthew and James Willstrop are now placed side by side...