ended unseeded French star Camille Serme’s giant-killing run in the final of the Carol Weymuller Open in New York to win the WSA Gold 50 event, celebrating its 40th anniversary at The Heights Casino in Brooklyn, for the second time since 2005. The match notched up world number one David’s ninth successive Tour win over the world No10 from Creteil – but Serme had enjoyed [...]
SPAIN’S world No.9 Borja Golan claimed his 27th PSA title in Canada last night when he took out England’s Daryl Selby in a scintillating FBN Montreal Open final. Selby took the opening game 11-9 in a gruelling 27 minutes but the 30-year-old Spaniard came roaring back taking the second game 11-3 inside seven minutes. The [...]
By ALAN THATCHER World Squash Day provided the ideal platform for staging events to promote the sport across the whole planet. The PSA led the way with a novel collection of tournament highlights from PSALive productions. Viewers were encouraged to share some spectacular footage with non-squash playing friends to show the incredible athleticism on show [...]
By LEE HORTON Amr Shabana has followed Egyptian world number one Ramy Ashour by pulling out of next week’s US Open in Philadelphia. The Delaware Investments event will be without its 2012 champion Ashour and world No. 8 Shabana, who [...]
By LEE HORTON Ramy Ashour’s stranglehold on world squash is a tight as ever after the Egyptian despatched Gregory Gaultier 3-2 in San Francisco last night to land the NetSuite Open title and push his unbeaten stretch to 45 [...]
Ramy Ashour is ranked world No.1 for the 10th month running, reports Howard Harding. Ashour, who celebrated his 26th birthday on Sunday in San Francisco where he won the PSA International 70 NetSuite Open, is enjoying the best run [...]
By ALAN THATCHER Just four days until the big IOC vote to decide if squash will become and Olympic sport in 2020. Twitter has been in a frenzy with squash players all over the planet amplifying the messages being boomed [...]
Kuwait To Host WSF World Team Championship 4 September 2013 Kuwait will host its first World Team championship after being awarded the rights to hold the 2015 Men’s World Team Squash Championship by the World Squash Federation. The fast-growing squash nation has twice hosted [...]
India’s Maharashtra State Open Joins PSA Tour 3 September 2013 The Maharashtra State Open, one of the most sought-after events on the Indian squash calendar for almost four decades, has become a PSA World Tour event – and is being held this week [...]
Squash Stars Staying Positive For Olympic Announcement Twice world champion Nick Matthew is keeping everything crossed ahead of one of the most momentous days in squash history. The Sheffield born star, like the rest of the global squash community, is counting down to September [...]
Tireless Olympic Campaigner Nicol David Makes World Ranking History 3 September 2013 From HOWARD HARDING Record seven-time women’s world squash champion Nicol David has campaigned tirelessly for several years to get her sport into the Olympic Games programme. In the final countdown to this weekend’s International Olympic [...]
Social Media Surge For Squash 2020 More than 20,000 Facebook likes over the last seven days 2 September 2013 With less than a week to go until the International Olympic Committee (IOC) votes to decide if Squash will join the2020 Olympic Games, the Squash [...]
The BBC has published an interesting article paying tribute to Frederick Wright, the squash coach who went down with the Titanic. Squash players in Philadelphia, led by the game’s leading historian James Zug, are planning to hold a tournament [...]
WORLD SQUASH DAY By ALAN THATCHER September 11 is now etched on the psyche as the date our world changed forever and Americans realised that they are just as vulnerable as the rest of us to terrorist attacks. The world [...]
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