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How we can approach a ‘new normal’ in squash: with masks and gloves compulsory to start with By RICHARD MILLMAN – Squash Mad Correspondent While we are hunkered down, staying home to allow our amazing front line workers in the hospitals, ambulances, police, armed forces etc to do their brave and essential work in combatting [...]

Yasser El Halaby, Gail Ramsay and Amanda Sobhy were four-midable foes CSA Intercollegiate Individual Championship preview by RICHARD MILLMAN – Squash Mad Correspondent The team cheers, heartbreaks, crazy celebrations, heroic comeback victories and soul destroying ‘almost wons’ are done for another season for both the men’s and the women’s teams, in the CSA Intercollegiate team [...]

Coaching legends look on as 58 College teams battle it out By RICHARD MILLMAN – Squash Mad Correspondent Fifty-eight of the sixty-eight ranked men’s teams of the CSA Intercollegiate Men’s Squash association are scheduled to compete in the Intercollegiate Men’s Team Championships to be held at Harvard University, MIT and Tufts University this weekend. Once [...]

‘College Squash is the engine that drives the game in the US, and large parts of the world’ By RICHARD MILLMAN – Squash Mad Correspondent For the next three weekends, in the USA, the College Squash Association comes to a culmination for the 2019-20 season, with the advent of the Women’s, Men’s and Individual championships, [...]

Mixed messages about the game’s health as we aim for the Olympics  By RICHARD MILLMAN – Squash Mad Correspondent   Recently the Professional Squash Association announced appreciable increase in the prize money funds of both the men’s and women’s professional squash tours. Within a few days of this announcement several other related announcements were made. [...]

Ramy ‘feels’ every shot and every situation, that’s what makes him probably the greatest player in the history of the game By RICHARD MILLMAN – Squash Mad Coaching Analyst At the risk of attracting all kinds of critical commentary I am going to make a bold statement: Ramy Ashour doesn’t know what he is doing [...]

All sins forgiven as juniors finally turn on the style at Yale University RICHARD MILLMAN reports from the Black Knight US Junior Open presented by Ashaway Strings After my disappointment at behaviour and simulation from junior players yesterday, I arrived at the Brady Squash Centre at Yale with more than a little feeling of trepidation. [...]

Great athleticism, but gamesmanship and interfering parents overshadow US Junior Open RICHARD MILLMAN reports from the Black Knight US Junior Open presented by Ashaway Strings AS day three commenced and crunch time arrived a sudden onslaught of acting out, poor sportsmanship and out and out cheating infected some of the sport at the US Junior [...]

US Junior Open back on track following snow-storm chaos on Saturday RICHARD MILLMAN reports from the Black Knight US Junior Open presented by Ashaway Strings Herculean, if not downright Olympic, efforts by the US Squash tournament staff at the Black Knight US Junior Open saw a return to play today, after a clean up delay [...]

Stars from yesteryear join together to support the biggest junior event worldwide RICHARD MILLMAN reports from the Black Knight US Junior Open, presented by Ashaway Strings BEAUTY, as the old saying goes, is in the eye of the beholder. Thus, depending on how broad your perspective of world squash is and/or where you have spent [...]

Recreational squash players, just like beginners, often struggle to cope with a double-dot ball. Why do clubs, and especially teaching pros, fail to offer an alternative to help people enjoy their game more? RICHARD MILLMAN offers a simple solution in his latest column The One Dot Revolution is coming! By RICHARD MILLMAN For quite some [...]

COMMENT: By RICHARD MILLMAN HAVING had a couple of days to consider the fall out of the sad news that one of the greatest players of all time, Qamar Zaman, has found it necessary to cancel junior events in Pakistan due to the insidious presence of age fixing, I feel more able to comment. First and [...]

We are not a mainstream sport throughout the world In Australia there is hardly a coach earning a full-time living Administrators are sadly impotent Governing bodies make decisions detrimental to the sport England’s “merger” of Squash and Racketball is utterly crazy Relationship between squash and racquetball is disastrous THESE are just a handful of the [...]