Will’s World Summer Camp
By Will Carlin
I am an idiot. Seriously.
It all started when I got an email from the coach I have been working with, Julian Wellings....
Will’s World Pre-Match Routine
By Will Carlin
Act I: Sizing Up
There you are.
No, I didn’t know who you were when I looked at the draw sheet and saw your...
Will’s World Invisible Gorilla
By Will Carlin
In 1999, Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris conducted an experiment that featured a short video of two groups of three people passing around...
Will’s World The Kindness of Strangers (and Good Friends)
By Will Carlin
TEM: Fall 2001. Vicky Botwright auctions off a thong for £310. She sells it to a man in Hong Kong and presents...
Will’s World Good Vibrations
By Will Carlin
It’s kind of odd when you think about it. Squash courts all are exactly the same dimensions. The walls are the same...
Will’s World Keeping Score
By Will Carlin
Two years ago, I wrote a column about the merits of nine-point scoring versus 15-point scoring. I argued that nine-point scoring made...
Will’s World 2014 The Year of Champions
2014: The Year of Champions
By Will Carlin
The end of the year in squash featured two of the most stunning matches in history at the...
Will’s World: Sniff it Out
By Will Carlin
Some matches were blowouts; others were excruciatingly close. Some matches were filled with incredibly hard hitting; others were played with an inordinate...
Will’s World: Loss Avoidance
By Will Carlin
At a few minutes before 5pm on a September Saturday in 2011, Novak Djokovic was facing double match point against Roger Federer...
Will’s World: Ring in the New
You may have heard the news last month: squash is once again shortlisted for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
We have...