Vicky Botwright Retires

England’s National Squash Center in Manchester has a new Head Squash Coach—Vicky Botwright. And she will finish off her 10-year career in Manchester during the World Open in October. A fixture on the World Tour...

Women in Squash A series profiling women playing the game—who they are, why they...

By Jennifer Gabler How do you make squash your life’s work? Is the ultimate achievement to coach a national championship team? How do you venture outside the comfort zone of your native land and make...

WISPA Launches Global Grand Slam Series

In a groundbreaking initiative due to be unveiled in 2009, the Women’s International Squash Players’ Association (WISPA) is developing a Global Grand Slam major championships series to link with the Women’s World Open at the...

WISPA Makes PAR

No, the Women’s International Squash Players Association hasn’t been out promoting golf. Instead, for the first time in the history of women’s professional squash, WISPA is adopting Point-A-Rally scoring to 11—the same system adopted...

Women in Squash A series profiling women playing the game—who they are, why they...

By Jennifer Gabler As someone who has recently returned to playing squash after a 12 year layoff, I was excited to interview other women and find out why they play and how they have stayed connected...

Sisterly History

By Richard Eaton Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com Probably only Venus and Serena Williams, the two most iconic females in world sport, have achieved what Rachael and Natalie Grinham did when the sisters played each other in...

Howe Cup 2007

By Beth Rasin Photos by Beth Rasin and Chris Smith "Babies and knee braces,” said Bridget DiBonaventura as she surveyed the bustling activity, including numerous children clambering across the bleachers, across the 13 courts at Harvard’s...

Women’s Doubles Squash Association Launched

After a successful women’s doubles and mixed doubles event in Denver, CO, last spring, Narelle Krizek had an epiphany—there’s PSA, WISPA and ISDA, so why not WDSA? “We want to increase the number of...

Grainger Captures Betteridge & Breitling San Diego Classic

Though Egyptian Raneem El Weleily went on to capture her second World Junior Championships title in August, Natalie Grainger firmly established that WISPA events are at a different level. In the first Betteridge &...

Making Waves US players serve notice at Junior Women’s Worlds

By Jay D. Prince Over the past six years, the US Junior Women’s Teams have been establishing a pattern of sorts. It started in 2001 when Michelle Quibell led the Americans to a first-ever top-four...