Squash Around The World

Stars head for Cincinatti By ELLIE MAWSON – Squash Mad Correspondent USA’s World No.8 Amanda Sobhy and England’s World No.7 Sarah-Jane Perry have been drawn to meet each other in the final of the Gaynor Cup after the main draw for the PSA World Tour Bronze event was released today. The event, which is now [...]

Momen, Coll, Elias and Makin are top four seeds in Toronto By MATT COLES – Squash Mad Correspondent The entry list for the 2020 Troilus Gold Canada Cup has been announced, with World Champion Tarek Momen headlining the 24-strong field heading to Toronto at the end of February. There will be four venues that play host [...]

Women’s bronze added to men’s PSA Gold in Zurich super show By SEAN REUTHE – Squash Mad Correspondent Tickets for the 2020 Grasshopper Cup are on sale now as Zurich’s Halle 622 gets set to feature a men’s and women’s PSA Tour event for the first time in the tournament’s 41-year history between March 17-22. [...]

Event grows to PSA Silver for men and women By SEAN REUTHE – Squash Mad Correspondent Tickets are on sale now for the 2020 Manchester Open, PSA Silver tournament taking place at Manchester’s National Squash Centre between May 6-10. This season’s edition of the Manchester Open follows the inaugural women’s-only tournament earlier this year – [...]

‘Their support will help the event scale new heights’ says Keir By DONNA HELMER – Squash Mad Correspondent England Squash has announced that AJ Bell will be continuing as title sponsor for the 2020 AJ Bell British National Squash Championships to be staged in Nottingham from the February 12-16, 2020. The latest agreement sees AJ [...]

World Squash Day success leads to new partnership  By DONNA HELMER – Squash Mad Correspondent England Squash has announced a new partnership with Karakal which will see one of the UK’s leading squash brands become title sponsor of the Premier Squash League (PSL), the world’s longest established and most successful national club competition. The latest [...]

London library to house 4,000 items at the Southgate club By HOWARD HARDING – Squash Mad International Correspondent While Squash looks forward, with new generations enjoying this great sport and new champions crowned on the latest club and showcourts, the sport also has a long and rich heritage. Being passionate about preserving this extensive history, [...]

Squash On Fire to host World Teams in Washington DC By HOWARD HARDING – Squash Mad International Correspondent Tickets for the 2019 World Squash Federation (WSF) Men’s World Team Squash Championship – which is being staged in the United States for the first time in the event’s 50-year history this December – have gone on [...]

Support for SquashSmarts as sponsorship helps access, equality, community and excellence By SEAN REUTHE  Tickets are now available for the 2019 FS Investments U.S. Open Squash Championships, which takes place between October 5-12, via usopensquash.com/tickets. FS Investments, title sponsor of the 2018 U.S. Open Squash Championships, has committed to serve as the tournament’s title sponsor [...]

Nottingham host 19 teams on tough weekend By ALAN THATCHER and MARK FULLER Much as the team at Squash Mad detest the ridiculous name thrust on racketball by a drunken think-tank committee, we salute the efforts being made to repair the damage. This culminated in the introduction of the first combined inter-county finals competition at [...]

Record numbers set for July showdown By DONNA HELMER – Squash Mad Correspondent A record numbers of players are expected to turn out for the newly merged HEAD National Racketball Championships at Edgbaston Priory Club next month. The two-day event, which takes place over the weekend of 6-7th July, is expected to lure a huge [...]

Stars return for $100k Necker Open By SEAN REUTHE  Mauritius will host a professional squash tournament for the first time after the Professional Squash Association (PSA) announced today that an agreement had been reached with title sponsors Necker Gestion Privée to bring a men’s PSA World Tour Gold tournament to the island in June 2020. [...]

Diego Elias seeded to meet him in final again By ELLIE MAWSON Colombia’s World No.7 Miguel Rodriguez will headline the XII Torneo Internacional PSA Sporta when the PSA Bronze tournament takes place from May 29 to June 2 in Guatemala. Defending champion Rodriguez will be back in action at this season’s tournament after claiming last [...]

Our sympathies to Essex player Ben Nicholson after Sri Lanka tragedy  By LEE HORTON and ALEX WAN The heartfelt thoughts of everyone in squash go out to Essex player Ben Nicholson, whose wife and two children were killed in the horror bombings in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. In a statement released over the weekend, [...]

Diego Elias to make Macau debut as top seed alongside local favourite Annie Au By ALEX WAN – Squash Mad Asian Bureau Editor The annual Macau Squash Open returns onto the PSA calendar once again and will continue to feature equal prize money of US$ 50,000 each for both the men’s and women’s events. The [...]