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Cheetham Hill in Manchester has become the first club in the UK to introduce AI technology, with members’ calories, distance covered, time spent on...

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...

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...

The memory of young English player Joe Rawcliffe, at just 27, continues to be remembered with a powerful serving of squash and raising thousands...

RIGHT BALL CAMPAIGN -- Six years ago, Nick Taylor, a former World No.14, delivered an impassioned opinion piece for Squash Mad in which he...

Our offbeat diary on squash in the media, on socials and general musings this month centres on a whizzkid, Brian Clough and bouldering! Squash could...

In an impressive admission that change is essential if he is to realise his full potential, Mostafa Asal has revealed the motivations and the...

England’s Mohamed ElShorbagy has been praised for speaking out over the scheduling of PSA World Squash Tour matches. ElShorbagy was scathing following his last eight...

For many an elite level athlete the prospect of carrying home hopes of glory can be a load that proves an unbearable burden. With Paris...

Squash Mad sheds light on the making of Paris Squash 2023, an event that was long overdue and wants to become a regular feature...

While the dawning of squash’s 1970s golden era saw our game develop exponentially with courts being built in leisure centres throughout the UK, the...

“I’ve never refused anything,” says Bert Armstrong of his stunning, eclectic collection of squash memorabilia and artefacts amassed over the last 30 years. We must...

Squash aficionados know all about the fierce fitness regime of former world champ David Palmer when he was strutting his stuff on tour. He's since...

John Shaw, chair of Berkhamsted Tennis & Squash Club, on the challenges of hosting a PSA Challenger tour event Just as tennis has the ATP...

Playing a sport indoors versus outdoors can significantly impact an athlete's performance in several ways. As squash looks for ways to grow -- perhaps...

Does top-level sport require us to forget the individual, man or woman, in order to focus only on the athlete, asks CAMILLE SERME As far...

James Willstrop says he will still be willing to offer his services to Mostafa Asal and help clean up The Egyptian's match play tactics...

The Constraints-Led Approach (CLA) training system applied to squash -- as talked about extensively in previous articles about how The Gevolution process was born,...

From the bizarre move of armpit testing to players paying for tests, the issue of whether Pakistan juniors are competing to their correct ages...

Amanda Sobhy says squash has moved away from being “a very lofty country club sport” in the USA and is ready to latch on...

Egypt's Mostafa Asal had a junior career suggesting there would be a fine senior career ahead. Few could have believed the events which have...

From time to time sport can throw up extraordinary tales that confound the normal parameters which shape it. The ability to harness the cathartic powers...

It is one year since Georgina Kennedy and Paul Coll had Commonwealth Games gold medals carefully placed around their necks amidst scenes at Birmingham...

While the aftershock of the pandemic continues to ravage squash, one Somerset Club has found racketball a welcome source of rejuvenation and new life. Facing...

The loneliness of the long distance squash player can be a gnawing and draining experience, one that makes the athlete question just why they...

This may be the year in which Biddenden Squash Club was recognised as club of the year -- yet it is the reasons behind...

Simon Parke believes that experience can be the key for Jonah Bryant as he attempts to become only the fourth Englishman to win the...

With the 2023 WSF World Junior Championships looming, US star Amanda Sobhy has revealed just how important her 2010 coronation was to launching her...

In today’s modern climate, one where sports are striving for eyeballs, there must be hundreds of squash courts cast into the shadows and hidden...

It is hard enough trying to negotiate the perilous rite of passage from the junior to the senior ranks at world class level in...

A "very clever man" is how rankings climber Nele Gilis describes her British coach Rob Owen. Now, the Belgian is aiming to make further...

The standard at the recent French League play-offs was the highest for almost 20 years in both men's and women's draws. For the second...

The great and the good of the men’s game may have gathered in Cairo for the CIB PSA World Tour Finals last week, but...

The squash world has paid tribute to distinguished player and Masters advocate Mark Cowley who died recently after a long battle with Covid and...

INTERVIEW: Former world champion Greg Gaultier on PSA ranking points, power play thoughts and World Tour Final memories Greg Gaultier believes that the ramifications of...

It is the injury that every squash player fears -- and last November it happened to Declan James. The rupturing of an Achilles during a...

She has admitted to playing and coming out the wrong side of a fair share of “3-0 choppings” against Egypt's best, but if ever...

After a summer starring in the 5 Nations and European Championships, England’s next family of exceptional squash talents is already turning their attention towards...

The key to turning a non-squash player into a passionate participant is to treat every potential new member of your club as “both a...

The modern climate in squash calls for proactive, energetic and selfless coaches. Down in Lewes, East Sussex, one club has just the cohort. And...