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Qatar Classic Squash 2025: Paul Coll and Hania El Hammamy prove class apart

Doha -- Paul Coll went back to doing court sprints during some 'dark times' as he sought to overturn a spectacular second round defeat in Egypt last month. Hania...

Qatar Classic Squash 2025: Clean sweeps set up riveting showdowns

Doha -- Casting aside the brouhaha of the first two world tour events, it has so far been a tournament of minimal fuss, few...

Qatar Classic Squash 2025: Agony for Al-Tamimi as Jonah Bryant eyes history

Doha -- This was no way to end what had been a pulsating quarter-final and 70 minutes of scampering squash. Amid outright anguish for Abdulla...

Qatar Squash Classic 2025: Mostafa Asal and Fares Dessouky hungry for title

Doha -- Mostafa Asal seems hungry for a first QTerminals Qatar Classic of his career.  During his quarter-final match with Youssef Soliman, the world No.1...

A day watching the PSA World Tour: No glass floor and, largely, pure squash

Doha -- If you wanted bang for your buck, you got it in Riyals during a riveting second round day at the Qatar Classic...

Jonah Bryant strikes first blow in Mohamed Zakaria rivalry after Doha thriller

Doha -- First blood, Jonah Bryant. This will be remembered -- should the rivalry develop as many predict it will over the next decade...

Korea to host world squash team championships

The Republic of Korea will host the 2026 World Team Championships, the biggest squash event hosted by the Asian nation. The tournament format will follow...

‘I love being the one heading India squash’: Abhay Singh raises hopes with Doha run

India’s national squash champion on life on tour, working with James Willstrop and digging in Doha -- “I am here to do damage and that’s...

Diego Elias appears to blame Mostafa Asal for knee injury

Doha -- Diego Elias has contradicted squash's tour body for the reason for his withdrawal from the Qatar Classic as he also appeared to...

Squash shorts: Lobban on song, Mosaad exits game

Lobban on song Scotland’s Greg Lobban claimed the Budapest Open title yesterday after beating England’s Patrick Rooney in the final to win his 16th PSA...

‘We need to be confronting the talking points in squash’

If you have watched the opening two World Tour events on PSA TV, you would have noticed a difference with the presentation. “We've got...

What the Egyptian Open tells about state of play in squash

Squash Mad runs the rule over the CIB Egyptian Open 2025 at the Giza Pyramids An upset to savour Unheralded Egyptian Adam Hawal has been inside...

Egyptian Open Squash 2025: Mostafa Asal and Hania El Hammamy lift titles

Mostafa Asal was given a conduct game warning as the Egyptian, along with compatriot Hania El Hammamy, lifted the 2025 CIB Egyptian Open titles. Asal...

London Squash Classic: Paul Coll and Amina Orfi claim titles

New Zealand’s Paul Coll and Egypt’s Amina Orfi captured silverware at the London Squash Classic after beating Welshman Joel Makin and Belgium’s Nele Gilis...

London Squash Classic: Married couple in final, Joel Makin the home hope

Married couple Nele Gilis and Paul Coll reached the finals of the London Squash Classic following respective wins over Japan’s Satomi Watanabe and Malaysia’s...

Diego Elias remains tight-lipped over fines and outbursts

London -- For all his public outbursts on a squash court during 2025, the talismanic Peruvian Diego Elias remains guarded off it. “I really have...

Mohamed Elshorbagy continues to show verve and class

Squash can be a stressful experience for both player and on-looker. Take the Joel Makin and Mohamed Elshorbagy duel at the London Classic on...

Squash players who create wet areas must continue play – or concede rally

World squash tour players will have to be further on their guard with more referee missives as the 2025/26 kicks off. In essence: keep...

The world is truly our stage, says squash tour body

The Professional Squash Association (PSA) has announced its calendar up until December, with 24 World Events set to take place across 14 countries in...

English player wins European squash masters title … by preparing to serve!

Victories for a trio of Swedish men and Scottish women were among the highlights of a drama-packed finals day at the 2025 ESF European...

British Squash National hat-tricks for Makin and Murphy

Top seeds Joel Makin and Tesni Murphy have lifted their third British National Squash Championship titles after claiming respective wins over Nick Wall and...

British Squash Nationals 2025: Wall and Malik stage thrilling comebacks to reach first finals

England duo Nick Wall and Torrie Malik advanced to their maiden British National Squash Championships finals after launching thrilling comebacks on an action-packed semi-finals...

British Squash Nationals 2025: Maliks reach semi-finals

Torrie and Curtis Malik both claimed standout wins on day three of the British National Squash Championships 2025, defeating Georgia Adderley and Tom Walsh...

Squash players under TV microscope at US Open

Squash will be under the microscope when the US Open is streamed live for the first time on NBC’s subscription channel Peacock. At the 2024...

How Geoff Hunt beat Jahangir Khan and the cramps at Bromley

Hunt recalls his 1981 British Open final success at Bromley in four games over the Pakistani squash great I may have been edging towards the...

Mostafa Asal pockets $400k as PSA records prize money boost

Mostafa Asal was the highest-earning squash player in the 2024/25 season. The Egyptian accrued $400,686 in prize money which is his first time at the...

Satomi Watanabe, Victor Crouin claim World Games squash titles

Japan’s Satomi Watanabe and France’s Victor Crouin were crowned champions at The World Games 2025 after recording a pair of commanding wins in the...

Egyptian Squash Open returns to Giza pyramids

The Egyptian Open is set to return against the backdrop of the iconic Great Pyramid of Giza for the first time since 2022 next...

World Junior Squaah: Egypt women race to 10th team title in a row

Egypt’s golden era continued on their home court in Cairo as their women’s and men’s sides completed the double in the World Squash Junior...

Former Pakistan player lambasts nation’s squash establishment

Former squash star Shahid Zaman Khan has delivered a withering indictment of Pakistan’s squash establishment, saying that the sport’s current leadership is leading to...

World Junior Squash: Egyptian Amina Orfi makes history as Mohamad Zakaria doubles up

Egypt’s Amina Orfi and Mohamad Zakaria were crowned world junior champions after scoring crushing wins over compatriots Nadien Elhammamy and Marwan Asal in Cairo. The...

Anahat Singh first Indian to reach World Junior Squash semis for 15 years

Anahat Singh became the first Indian woman to reach the semi-finals of the World Squash Junior Championships for 15 years while hosts Egypt swept...

World Junior Squash 2025: ‘Dream come true’ for Hong Kong’s Tsz Ching Cheung

Egypt’s Adham Roshdy and Hong Kong, China’s Tsz Ching Cheung recorded two huge shocks in Cairo as they dispatched South Korean No.2 seed JooYoung...

History for Saudia Arabia, Brazil at World Junior Squash 2025

Mohammed Alnasfan and Laura Silva made history for Saudi Arabia and Brazil as they became their nations’ first ever representatives in the Round of...

World squash No.1 to Edinburgh Fringe: James Willstrop debuts solo musical play

James Willstrop, the former No.1, is preparing to make a dramatic shift from the sporting arena to the theatrical stage this August at the...

World Junior Squash 2025: Egypt enjoy perfect opening

Tournament hosts Egypt signalled their intent early by recording a perfect day as the 2025 World Squash Junior Championships got underway at Black Ball...

‘Squash in Brisbane could become sport with Olympic status but no playing base’

Australian squash is in freefall, with club closures accelerating, facilities deteriorating and national governance failing to address the sport’s structural needs, according to former...

Rising Egypt squash talent Mohamed Zakaria inks Pakistan sponsor deal

Egyptian national and world No. 14 Mohamed Zakaria has inked a five-year sponsorship agreement with a Pakistani food manufacturer in efforts to revive professional...

Squash at LA 2028 Olympics played over 10 days

Squash at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics will be staged at night and over a prolonged 10 days of action. LA2028 organisers have released the...

Aqeel Rehman becomes oldest squash tour winner of 2025 – aged 39

Austrian Aqeel Rehman became the oldest tour title winner this year after winning the men’s PSA Challenger Shepparton International in Australia this month. Rehman is...

World Squash inks global rating system with SquashLevels

World Squash says it has implemented a unified global rating system “to galvanise the squash community” in the lead up to squash’s Olympic debut. World...

Seedings set for 2025 World Squash Junior Championships

The draws have been announced ahead of this month's World Squash Junior Championships in Cairo. Over 230 squash talents will compete at the Black Ball...

Boxing clever on court: How Rodney Eyles won 1997 world squash final

Australian Rodney Eyles recalls beating Peter Nicol 15-11, 15-12, 15-12 to win 1997 men's title in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia As the years went on and...