Top Ten Reasons Why This Was the Greatest United States Open Ever

  by James Zug I Wow Times Infinity It was packed. At the 2016 Delaware Investments United States Open, there were no gimmicks, no free pizza for Drexel students, no bouncy castle radar zones. It was the...

Conqueror of the World

By James Zug 555: The Untold Story Behind Squash’s Invincible Champion and Sport’s Greatest Unbeaten Run by Rod Gilmour and Alan Thatcher Worthing, England: Pitch Publishing, 2016 It is hard to recall now, a quarter of...

Will’s World: Take Note

By Will Carlin My high school squash notebook looks like a rainbow. For some unremembered reason, I was rigorous about keeping my notes in a different color each day. Not just any color: they had...

Masters of Fate: A Personal Report on the 2016 World Masters

By Alan Stapleton I am an average squash player, an ever-learning coach and a try-my-best administrator. Squash pulses passionately through my veins. When I heard the news that South Africa was hosting the 2016 World...

FeedForward: Mental Skills Before, During and After a Match

By Amy Gross, Peak Performance & Mental Coach The single most important thing athletes can do to enhance their performance is improve their mental game, so why do we spend the majority of our time...

Tools of the Trade

By Pierre Bastien What racquets and shoes were the pros using at the 2016 Delaware Investments U.S. Open? Camille Serme—Champion Racquet: Prince Pro Rebel 950 (custom color) Shoes: Asics Gel Blade 4 Nour El Sherbini—Finalist Racquet: Tecnifibre Carboflex 125 S Shoes:...

Overuse Syndrome

By Joseph Zarett Professional squash players’ bodies are like musical instruments. If you play properly, it is beautiful music. If you don’t, you can break the strings. Last year, Mohamed Elshorbagy came in to visit me...

Ready, Set, Go

By Candace Chemtob Whether you are a junior, college, professional player or a weekend warrior, preparation is essential to your success on the squash court. You have spent countless hours training and conditioning. Don’t drop...

Righty Tighty

By Richard Millman A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of being present at the final of the Delaware Investments U.S. Open in Philadelphia. Apart from the packed arena, one of the best...

Hey Ref: December 2016

by Barry Faguy HEY REF Don’t you guys have a sense of humor? Oh yeah. A few years ago, Anthony Hill is stopped in mid-play by a ref's call of “not up.” He argues that the...