RJ Mitchell
RJ MITCHELL has been writing about squash for 24 years and has played the sport all his adult life. Former captain of the West of Scotland county team, he became a professional journalist and has written for the Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser, the Glasgow Evening Times, The Herald and The Scotsman. Mitchell has also become a regular contributor for the PSA World Tour website. He is also the author of the DS Thoroughgood crime fiction series based on his career as a Glasgow cop between 1989 and 2001.
Features
Lessons for squash: How Olympic inclusion helped Rugby Sevens
For rugby the road to Olympic inclusion was completed when Sevens was admitted to the Rio games in 2016.
In its full 15-a-side format Rugby...
Features
Squash Junkies: Meet the Brit who conjured the sport’s most fun and brutal event
It takes a brave man to quit his job, pack up his old squash kit bag and head for Europe on a wing and...
Growing the game
How to run a successful squash tournament
With squash at the Olympics, it could pave the way for more events and promoters eager to latch on to growing opportunities in the...
Interviews
How coaching double act is lifting Paul Coll
Rod Martin has revealed that he is working with Paul Coll in a three-way collaboration with the Kiwi and his long-standing coach Rob Owen....
Features
‘I was losing matches 3-2 as I didn’t want to push’: How Bernabeu bounced back
For Spanish squash No.1 Iker Pajares Bernabeu the moment the impossible happened -- injuring both achilles in a case of delayed reaction -- came...
Features
Burnley now has two courts left – can Olympic inclusion stop exodus?
The names of clubs such as Gisburn (Stirk House), Barnoldswick, Pendle (Colne), Nelson (Springers) Reedley, Crow Wood, Clitheroe and Thompson SC – a six...
Features
‘Arlen Spectre Centre as an inclusive club is fantastic for US Squash’
With over 10 years on the PSA World Tour and having just celebrated racking up 250 tour matches as a professional, when it comes...
Features
How coach Alison Waters has given Tesni Evans confidence post injury
It is the moment every player dreads. And when injury comes right at the start of the season the impact is even more painful....
Features
Peter Marshall: How I maintain squash fitness into my 50s
Peter Marshall’s two-fisted style on either wing during his 1990’s pomp, when he reached World No.2, made him one of the most fascinating watches...
Coaching and Development
The Englishwoman bucking the trend coaching Squash Canada men
It is almost unheard of in squash circles for women to coach men at world level - until now. Next month, Englishwoman Victoria Lust...
Features
England Squash communication at heart of Barrington new role
Communication is king when it comes to making England Squash work for its membership. And that is at the heart of Joey Barrington’s aims...
Features
‘I thought it was the end:’ Ukraine squash champion on playing through war
Ukraine’s three-time national champion is recalling the horror day nearly two years ago when her country was invaded. “My husband and I were sleeping,...
News
Postponing Premier Squash League ‘is further blow to quality of UK depth’
As a former World No.30 and Premier Squash League winner as a captain back in the golden days of the mid-80s with Cannons --...
Coaching and Development
‘College squash in USA is bigger than the PSA – it is huge!’
“I would honestly say I have learned more in the short space of time I’ve been here than in all of my time in...
Features
How to build a low cost outdoor squash court like the UK’s first
An engineer with a passion for squash has a lasting vision for his ‘Blue Peter’ outdoor court design after crowdfunding thousands for his prototype,...
Features
‘Youth coming alive’ through groundbreaking Bronx squash project
A $10million project which is positioning squash front and centre of a pioneering move to help South Bronx youth shine in New York can...
Features
North West Counties: Is this the best squash league in the world?
The banner headline on the shiny new North West Counties League website proclaims: ‘3500 players, 67 years, 22 leagues and Europe’s largest competitive league,’...
Interviews
‘Squash now has the complete package with Olympics berth’
The great tragedy, of course, is that Geoff Hunt and Jahangir Khan, two of the greatest ever figures in squash, were denied the opportunity...
Features
How Toronto squash club rallied after 14-day closure warning
A closure notice can kill any club stone dead, especially when there is only a two-week warning accompanying it. But for Toronto-based Peterborough Squash...
Interviews
Ali Farag: I’m in the form of my life – I can still get better
Six years ago, world No.1 Ali Farag claimed the first of two US open titles sharing a memory he describes as “the best day...
Features
Sister Act: Sabrina Sobhy on song ahead of US Squash Open
Travelling, rooming and sharing laughs together. That’s the sister act which the Sobhys currently enjoy on the PSA World Tour. And for Sabrina Sobhy,...
Features
AI tech trialled at UK squash club to help members
Cheetham Hill in Manchester has become the first club in the UK to introduce AI technology, with members’ calories, distance covered, time spent on...
News
Right Ball Campaign: We need to appeal to all different crowds – Ali Farag
Following Squash Mad’s news that the WSF and Dunlop are, one hopes, aligned with our ‘Right Ball’ campaign with a move to put more...
Features
Hania El Hammamy: Why I model myself on Novak Djokovic
INTERVIEW: Egyptian squash star on using Serbian tennis great's mentality, music, Netflix and PSA titles
Hania El Hammamy has revealed that one of the key...
Interviews
Squash deep clean: World No 1 Ali Farag backs referee directives
World No. 1 Ali Farag has welcomed the PSA’s initiative to try and address some of the blights -- including blocking and dissent --...
Interviews
Greg Lobban: ‘I don’t love squash but now I can trouble best’
Greg Lobban is doing it “my way”. So much so that he has become the first Scot since John White 15 years ago to...
Interviews
Colombian Catalina Pelaez: ‘You have take care of your circumstances and challenges’
While the PSA World Squash Tour has started with the glam and glitz of Platinum events in Paris and Doha, for those players who...
Coaching and Development
Right Ball Campaign: We need to educate the squash community worldwide
Who has responsibility over the ball issue?
Nick Taylor, the British coach now based in the USA who has been vocal on the double dot...
Features
Northern Joe Cup squash festival shows power of sport and support
The memory of young English player Joe Rawcliffe, at just 27, continues to be remembered with a powerful serving of squash and raising thousands...
Coaching and Development
‘Squash is the only sport where the ball is warmed up – it has to change’
RIGHT BALL CAMPAIGN -- Six years ago, Nick Taylor, a former World No.14, delivered an impassioned opinion piece for Squash Mad in which he...
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