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...
Squash Takes Center Stage at the Commonwealth Games
by James Zug
When I was working at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, a lot of fellow journalists asked why I was there, since the U.S. was not competing.
It was an easy answer. The...
Book Review: BIG DATA
One of the benefits of the U.S. Open arriving at Drexel University in 2011 has been a myriad of interactions between the squash community and Drexel professors.
Eric Zillmer and Nyree Dardarian are two great...
2020-2021 Milestones
2020-2021 Milestones
Deaths
Marwan Mahmoud Abdelnaby
Marwan Mahmoud died in August 2020 at age twenty-four. The Egyptian had starred at Penn and was getting a masters at Boston University.
Bill Broadbent
Bill Broadbent died in September 2021 at the...
The Ratings Game – An Analysis of US Squash Ratings
by Varun Fuloria, Rutwik Kharkar, and Ryan Rayfield
What’s in a number? A lot, if you ask a player about their US Squash rating! Squash enthusiasts tend to be a pretty analytical bunch, and the...
Outside the Glass: Qamar Zaman
Qamar Zaman was the original Conjuror, a magical player who a half century ago enthralled audiences around the world. British Open champion, world No.1 and irresistible showman, Zaman is considered perhaps the most deceptive...
Community Perspectives: Growing Diversity in Squash
By Laura Trevelyan
Laura Trevelyan is an award-winning journalist for the BBC, college squash parent and CitySquash board member.
Squash in the U.S. is at an inflection point. The reckoning over race in America poses tough...
Squash News Cover is a Trip Down Memory Lane
By James Zug
Twenty-five years ago, the cover of Squash News, our predecessor magazine, featured fifty-three young athletes. That February 1996 issue was historic. It not only contained what is thought to be the most...
DeRoy Leads Squash for Forty Years
For forty years, the DeRoy Testamentary Foundation has partnered with the game of squash.
The roots of the relationship came in 1978, after the death of Helen DeRoy. She and her husband Aaron DeRoy owned...
Outside the Glass: Head-Butt
This month’s episode of Outside The Glass, the squash podcast, is about photographs of a particular encounter, during the first round of the 1994 British Open, between Anthony Hill and Mir Zaman Gul. Steve...