Will’s World The Simpson Paradox
By Will Carlin
Nicolas Mueller is the best Swiss squash player ever. This past April, he became Switzerland’s highest-ranked player ever (No. 20 in the world) and, a week later, won his seventh consecutive Swiss National Championship.
In 2013, he had wins over...
For the 17th Time, Squash Comes to Grand Central
By James Zug
Grand Central Terminal. It is a magical place. It is the monumental building, weighty with history and grandeur. It is the largest rail terminal in the world—terminal not station: Grand Central is...
Where in The World Is Jan Koukal?
PSA tour players travel across the world each year to compete in events, but the Czech Republic’s Jan Koukal takes this to a new level. Known as the PSA’s most traveled player, Koukal has played...
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 as Matt Jenson & Preston Quick reached match ball in the...
The Top: Current PSA Players Longest Winning Streaks (Matches)
Current PSA Players Longest Winning Streaks (Matches)
Ramy Ashour EGY 49
Mike Corren AUS 26
Nick Matthew ENG 25
Amr Shabana EGY 23
Rafael Alarcon BRA 22
Jan Koukal CZE 18
Nicolas Mueller SUI 18
Steven Finitsis AUS 18
Abdullah Al Muzayen KUW...
Matthew Achieves One of the Great Surprises
By Richard Eaton
Photos by Steve Line/Squashpics.com
It was one of the three or four greatest World Championships surprises of all time. Those who witnessed the U.S. Open final only sixteen days before might rate it...
Going Her Own Way
By Chris McClintick
In the spring of 1922, Howard Roark—the protagonist in Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel The Fountainhead—chooses to leave his architecture school, not compromising his personal architectural beliefs in adhering to the school’s conventionalism.
Nearly...
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...