Will’s World The Four-Year Itch
By Will Carlin
The squash question I get asked most often, even when it is not a leap year, is “When is squash going to...
Will’s World Opposites Attract
By Will Carlin
Squash uses a soft rubber black ball with two dots; its opposite uses a hard white ball with an actual number. Squash...
Will’s World Think of the Fans
By Will Carlin
Earlier this year, James Willstrop and Gregory Gaultier met in the semi-finals of the Tournament of Champions in New York City. Most...
Will’s World My Dinner as Andre
By Will Carlin
In the warm late summer evening of September 5, 2007, tennis fans in Flushing, New York, were being treated to tennis played at...
Will’s World The Sound and the Fury
By Will Carlin
There is a sport whose athletes use a technique that they claim both sharpens technique and primes them for battle. Sounds pretty...
Will’s World Top 2007 Highlights: Unexpected Happenings
By Will Carlin
The number seven is considered a lucky number in cultures and mythology ranging from ancient Hindi mythology through all three major monotheistic...
Will’s World Ten Years
By Will Carlin
100 issues. Wow. I didn’t start writing columns for the magazine until late in the first year, so I am a little...
Will’s World Bionic Man. Bionic Woman. Bionic Athlete?
By Will Carlin
Some of you may remember the television show The Six Million Dollar Man. The show started off with these words: “Steve Austin:...
Everything’s Changing A forty-something goes to a movement squash camp for teens and finds...
By Will Carlin
Photographs by Damon Leedale-Brown
In my June column, I mentioned that I was an idiot. The ostensible reason for my claim was that I...
Will’s World There’s No Crying In Squash?
By Will Carlin
This past July, Roger Federer played Rafael Nadal in the finals of Wimbledon. Going into the match, Federer had lost to Nadal...