Fanning The Flames of Women’s Doubles
By Tracy Gates
I am a Flamingo. Well, I was for a few months this past spring, as a team member on the inaugural women’s hardball doubles league in NYC. Flamingoes are better at fishing...
Howe Cup 2012
By Beth Rasin
For three days in October at the Seattle Athletic club, squash was celebrated in all its glory and distilled to its essence. The annual coming together of women from across the country...
The Beauty (and Grit) of Performance…
By Tracy Gates
Thirty feet above the ground, a woman hangs, suspended in silk. She wraps first one leg and then another in lengths of it. She loops it over her arms and twists it around her...
The 3G Howe Cup: Grit, Glamour and Glory
By Beth Rasin
Grit, glamour and glory defined the 3G bandwidth of Howe Cup 2012. Grit was evident throughout the tournament on the host Meadow Mill courts—not the sweep up the dirt from your shoes...
How to Succeed at Squash
By David Hughes
There is a fierce battle on court 12 when I walk up. The players have been on court for almost an hour, trading point after point, making each other stretch for every ball,...
Double the Fun in the Hamptons
By Tracy Gates
Why can’t women play doubles like men? Call me sexist, but I’m also female and I couldn’t help thinking that as I watched match after match of doubles during DONAT (Doubles or Nothing...
SPA-tlight: Lauren Doline
Lauren Doline, Squash Professional, Yale Club NYC
How old were you when you first picked up a squash racquet?
I was 12 years old at a clinic with Mark Talbott as an introduction to squash at The...
Turner Cup
This year’s Turner Cup marked the beginning of the era of women’s doubles squash. The tournament, which is the largest stop on the WDSA tour, had both a record number of participants at the professional...
Massaro Stuns David in Cleveland
Report by Nathan Dugan
There were over 200 spectators in the crowd at the Cleveland Racquet Club who were just as stunned as Nicol David, after Laura Massaro played the match of her life to claim...
Women in Squash
By Jennifer Gabler
The best part of being tournament director for the Howe Cup this year was all the people I met through email and then met in person at the event. I got a call a...