Ashour The Happiest Moment of His Life

By Richard Eaton Photos by Steve Line/squashpics.com There were many well-publicized reasons why Ramy Ashour’s capture of the British Open title—at a pioneering outdoor venue in Hull City’s soccer stadium—has carried him further along the road...

Massaro British Queen

By Richard Eaton Photos by Steve Line/squashpics.com There was a throw-away hint as to why the world’s most successful squash player might suffer her most startling defeat in four years, not long before the British Open...

Seven Signals Change for David, Women’s World Open

By Richard Eaton A few days after Nicol David had extended her record of World Open titles to seven it emerged just how much of a watershed in her career this latest success might be. Instead...

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...

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...

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 or humanity, you probably feel as though you are not...