December 2015 - Archive


12-31-15 Year-End Thoughts from James Willstrop

12-31-15 Penn, Columbia Top Men's Division 1 Rankings

12-31-15 Volunteer Slots Available at ToC

12-31-15 ToC Tickets

12-31-15 ToC Qualifier Tickets

12-31-15
NYC Grand Open Seeks More Entries, ToC Tickets Included

12-31-15 David Wins Squash Player’s Player of the Month Award

12-31-15 Toronto Cambridge Cup Men's Pro Novelty Event Returns for Sixth Edition

12-31-15
Hey Ref, by Barry Faguy

12-31-15 Mass State Singles Offering 27 Brackets

12-31-15 Dartmouth Swim Tragedy Points to Shallow Water Blackout

12-31-15 Winter Speed Training

12-30-15
Video: Ashour v Elshorbagy, Full Match Replay

12-30-15 Laura Massaro Ticks Last Box by Piers Newbery

12-30-15 Recovery & Stretching, Amateur v Pro

12-30-15 ToC Kids and Family Day on Tap

12-30-15 Flooded Club in Need of Help

12-30-15 Black Knight Backpacks from Pierre Bastien

12-30-15 Harvard Penn Princeton Top Women's D1 Rankings

12-30-15 Single Leg by Damon Leedale-Brown

12-30-15 Donna Urquhart Surfs in Yamba

12-30-15 Toronto Private School for Elite Athletes in Financial Disarray by Alex Ballingall

12-30-15 Report Says Colleges Relax Marijuana Penalties for Athletes

12-30-15 Tennis Hawk-Eye Ball Tracking Technology Proving Trickier in Other Sports

12-29-15
U. S. Hardball Nationals To Have Its Swan Song In 2016 by Rob Dinerman

12-29-15 British Junior Open To Begin Saturday

12-29-15 3 Americans Projected into BJO Quarters

12-29-15 2015 CSA Editors' Picks from Michael Bello

12-29-15 Video: Massaro v David, Full Match

12-29-15 Playing Squash to a Hundred by Robert Mosier

12-29-15 Salming Backpacks from Pierre Bastien

12-29-15 Video: Nick Pairs Routine

12-29-15
Top Banana from SquashSkills

12-29-15 Parents Paying for Youth Sports Recaps Written by Computers

12-29-15 Nike Releasing Updated Tennis Classic

12-29-15
Remembering Meadowlark Lemon by Phil Taylor


12-28-15
PSA Year in Review Part 2


12-28-15
Women's Shot of the Year Contenders

12-28-15 Video: David v El Sherbini, Full Match Replay

12-28-15 Mastermind: Laurens Jan Anjema

12-28-15 Squash and Love from Peter Heywood

12-28-15 Women's Division 3 Rankings

12-28-15 Men's Division 3 Rankings

12-28-15 More UK Racketball by James Zug

12-28-15 Wimbledon Golfers Reject Tennis Buyout

12-28-15 From Stan Smiths to Nikes by Tim Newcomb

12-27-15
PSA Year in Review, Part 1


12-27-15 Men's Shot of the Year Contenders

12-27-15
Improve Your Focus by Chris Hanebury

12-27-15 Hadrian Stiff on Defining Correct Technique

12-27-15 Alison Waters on Dealing with Injury

12-27-15 Scozzie Squash at the US Junior Open

12-27-15 Video: Gaultier v Hesham, Full Match Replay

12-27-15 Japan Juniors Serving Notice

12-27-15 Q and A with Susan Devoy

12-27-15 Federer and Djokovic Poised to Become First $100 Million Men in Tennis

12-27-15
NYT Best-Selling Sports Books

12-27-15 More Bad News for Sitters

12-23-15
NYSC Flagship Uptown Racquet Club To Close In January by Rob Dinerman


12-23-15 Israr Ahmed and Satomi Watanabe Win US Junior Open Titles

12-23-15 US Squash Wrap

12-23-15
Australia To Host 2016 World Softball Doubles Championship by Howard Harding

12-23-15 GQ: The Real-Life Diet of Elshorbagy

12-23-15 Video: Elshorbagy v Willstrop, Complete

12-23-15 Video: Daryl Selby Interview

12-23-15
Slightly Confusing US Squash Academy Theme Announced

12-23-15 College Squash Circuit Taking Root in Malaysia

12-23-15 The Secret Little Game by James Zug

12-23-15 UK Take on Best Sports Books 2015

12-22-15
Finals Set in Connecticut US Junior Open


12-22-15
Balls to the Wall: Ours, is to Reason Why by Alan Stapleton

12-22-15 PSA Player Spotlight: Paul Coll by Jonny Coverdale

12-22-15 E Pluribus Unum – Squash Style by Richard Millman

12-22-15 Nice Words from Nick Matthew

12-22-15 Fram's December in Cairo Part 3

12-22-15 Video: PSA Christmas Cracker, El Welily v El Tayeb

12-22-15 2015 College Squash Top 20 Stories from Michael Bello

12-22-15 Breaking Through the Levels by Chris Hanson

12-22-15 NZ Club Continues to be Targeted by Thieves

12-22-15 Athletes Embrace Golden Years of Exercise by Mike Plunkett

12-21-15
The Millman Experience at the US Junior Open


12-21-15 US Junior Open Divisions into Monday Quarterfinals

12-21-15 A Squash Court for Christmas by David Keating

12-21-15
The Ramy Ashour New York Interview Part 3, With John Nimick

12-21-15 November Shot of the Month

12-21-15 Pro Draw Confirmed for New Poly Prep Tournament, Amateur Registration Open by Corey Modeste

12-21-15
Friends of Urban Squash Letter from National Director Tim Wyant

12-21-15 IOC Wants Changes in Kuwaiti Law Before Removing Ban

12-21-15 Artificial Surfing Wave Refined

12-19-15
Classic Pro Hardball Tour Documentary Film Surfaces


12-19-15 900 Juniors Competing in Connecticut as US Nationals Kicks Off

12-19-15 US Junior Nationals DRAWS

12-19-15 Mosaad Trying to Push On After Summer Tragedy

12-19-15 Travel to My Hometown by Gregory Gaultier

12-19-15 ToC Updates from The Engineer

12-19-15
Creativity vs. Discipline by Chris Hanebury

12-19-15 Video: $150K Briggs Cup Recap

12-19-15 Prince Textreme Pro Warrior 600 (Signature Ramy Ashour Racket) from Pierre Bastien

12-19-15 CSA Men's Team Rankings

12-19-15 CSA Women's Team Rankings

12-19-15 Studies Continue to Tweak Stretching Guidelines

12-19-15 How Natural Gut Strings Became a Part of Tennis by Tim Newcomb

12-19-15 More High School Football Teams Playing NFL-like Schedule

12-18-15
McWIL Brooklyn Poly Prep Courts Complete

12-18-15 Poly Prep Time Lapse Video

12-18-15 Statement from US Squash Chief Kevin Klipstein

12-18-15 Squash TV Partnering with On-Demand Eurosport

12-18-15 Episcopal Coach Frank Phillips Profiled

12-18-15 US Junior Championships Bracing for 2500 Players, Coaches and Parents

12-18-15 BC's Matthew Henderson Runs Canadian Juniors Table

12-18-15 Fram Gommendy: A Glass Court, Free for All, Under a Bridge in Egypt

12-18-15 Never Been That Busy

12-18-15 Possible Good News for Knees

12-18-15 Australian Olympic Committee Lectures Athletes On Social Media Practice

12-18-15 $4.2 Million for Flintstones House off California Freeway

12-17-15
The Ramy Ashour New York Interview Part 2, With John Nimick


12-17-15 2016 ToC Women's Draw Announced; El Welily, Massaro & David Atop Field by Nathan Clarke

12-17-15 January Tournament of Champions DRAWS

12-17-15 World Titlist Gaultier To Headline 2016 UCS Swedish Open by Nathan Clarke

12-17-15 Serbian Squash Fights to Keep Club Alive in Belgrade by Rod Gilmour

12-17-15 Amelia Henley of England & Matthew Henderson of Canada Capture Canadian Junior Open Titles

12-17-15 Video: Laurens Jan Anjema Speaks

12-17-15 Celia Allamargot and Alex Stait Named Assistant US National Junior Coaches

12-17-15 84th Gold Racquets Invitational Report

12-17-15 Things Looking Grim for One-Time NYC Squash Powerhouse Town Sports International

12-17-15
Desert Places (à la Evelyn Waugh) – Part Two by Peter Heywood

12-17-15 Year's Hits & Misses in Sports Journalism by Anna Clark

12-17-15 Westport Runner Hannah DeBalsi Named Sports Illustrated High School Athlete of the Month

12-17-15 High School Water Polo Player Charged With Felony Over Broken Nose

12-17-15 Average Price of Manhattan Apartment Cracks $1 Million

12-16-15
Cameron Pilley Says Extra Motivation Behind Hong Kong Run


12-16-15 Video: Alison Waters Speaks

12-16-15 and Q & A

12-16-15 Malaysian No 3 Wee Wern Discusses ACL Rehab

12-16-15 Sheffield British Junior Open Counting Down

12-16-15 Virginia's Russell Bogue and Princeton's Nick Barton Earn Rhodes Scholarships

12-16-15 Year End from Steel City Squash

12-16-15 They're Playing Squash?

12-16-15 Mudge and Gould Win First Briggs Cup Doubles Title

12-16-15 Video: 2015 Briggs Cup Final

12-16-15 Flooded North West England Club Dealing with Aftermath

12-16-15 New Plantar Fasciitis Procedure Reportedly Shows Promise

12-16-15 Brazil Olympics Tennis Court to Seat Ten Thousand

12-16-15 In Support of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives by Jeremy Repanich

12-15-15
Reader: US Squash Needs to Respond to Outrageous Calls for Muslim Ban


12-15-15 2016 Colombia Open To Be Most Lucrative Latin American Squash Tournament Ever by Nathan Clarke

12-15-15
Fuller Fells Jaume to Lift IMET Open Title by Sean Reuthe

12-15-15 December in Cairo by Fram Gommendy

12-15-15 40 Americans Entered in January British Junior Open

12-15-15 Video: Megarally 145, Selby v Coppinger

12-15-15 Tecnifibre Carboflex Storm from Pierre Bastien

12-15-15 College Highlights from Michael Bello

12-15-15 Indian Stars Pallikal and Chinappa Reportedly Bury Hatchet

12-15-15 How a Boy’s Concussion Death Changed British Sports by Ken Belson

12-14-15
Mudge/Gould, Mathur/Badan to Square Off in $100k Briggs Cup Final, Live Streaming 8:00pm EST

12-14-15 Natalie Grainger/Suzie Pierrepont Upended in Women's Briggs Opening Round, Final Set for 7pm Monday

12-14-15 From Squash Player Magazine: France's Belated Hero by Richard Eaton

12-14-15 Video: Hesham v Farag

12-14-15 SquashSite: A Look at the 2016 World Calendar

12-14-15 Karakal Smash 140 Racket from Pierre Bastien

12-14-15 College Men's Video: Penn v Princeton from Michael Bello

12-14-15 US Women's Soccer Team Digs in On Artificial Turf Issue

12-14-15 Planet Fitness & $10 Memberships Fastest-Growing in US

12-14-15 Nike Continues Naming Buildings After Athletes

12-13-15
Framboise Undeterred by 'Security Issues' Enjoys Cairo, Appears on Egyptian Television


12-13-15
$100K Briggs Cup Men's Semis Streaming Live at 3:00pm EST


12-13-15 Women's Briggs DRAW

12-13-15 Dana Betts December World No 1 in Women's Hardball Doubles

12-13-15 WSDA December Rankings

12-13-15 Video: Shot of the Month Contenders

12-13-15 Alan Thatcher: How We Can Help Flooded Club

12-13-15
Greenwich Academy Girls Beat Sacred Heart in Season Opener

12-13-15 Getting the Right Fit by Gary Nisbett

12-13-15 Job Opening: Pro, Virginia

12-13-15 Peter Genever Wants More From Malaysian Players, US Squash Should Hire Him

12-13-15
Mizuno Wave Lightning Shoes from Pierre Bastien

12-13-15 On Squash's Greatest Artist (and a good guy)

12-13-15 College Sports’ Fastest-Rising Expense: Paying Coaches Not to Work

12-13-15 A Pro Tennis Career Cut Short, by Bassam Beidas

12-13-15 Australian Study Says Too Much Sleep Hazardous

12-11-15
Rachel Arnold Captures Women’s Malaysian Tour Title by Sean Reuthe

12-11-15 Elshorbagy Throwback Thursday

12-11-15 John Lau's Pacific Coast Doubles on Track

12-11-15 Squash Christmas Sweater Unleashed

12-11-15 Video: Amanda Sobhy & Harrow

12-11-15 $100,000 Briggs Cup Doubles Underway in Rye

12-11-15 James Willstrop Speaks

12-11-15 England Squash Celebrates Rise in Playing Numbers

12-11-15 Steve Walton from Down Under

12-11-15 Matt Giegerich (Dartmouth) and Tyler Odell (Penn) are College Players of the Week

12-11-15 New Canaan High School Serves Up New Season at Chelsea Piers

12-11-15 Historic East Side Apartment with Converted Squash-Tennis Court on the Market

12-11-15 LA Times Veteran Bill Dwyre on the Past & Future of Sportswriting

12-10-15
The Ramy Ashour New York Interview Part 1, With John Nimick


12-10-15 Sasha Cooke Weighs in On Clock Proposal for Women's Pro Squash

12-10-15 Azam Sets Hashim Story Straight

12-10-15 Undefeated Starts for Men's & Women's Penn Squads Unprecedented by Corey Henry

12-10-15 Columbia Coach Says Lack of On-Campus Facilities Limits Practice Time

12-10-15 University of Western Ontario Eyeing 33rd Straight OUA Title

12-10-15
FOX Series Brooklyn 99 Awkwardly Inserts 'Squash'

12-10-15 Doug Gillon: Scottish Government Failing Children & Sport

12-10-15 Not Sure if 'PSA World Tour' Video Game Works in the US

12-10-15 Getting the Best Out of Juniors by Luke Butterworth

12-10-15 Titan Voodoo Racket from Pierre Bastien

12-10-15 Victoria's Secret Models Called Elite Athletes

12-9-15
Elshorbagy Tops 2016 Tournament of Champions Draw by Nathan Clarke


12-9-15
Haycocks Lifts MAA Montreal Invitational Title by Sean Reuthe

12-9-15 Schoor Captures Valencia Crown by Sean Reuthe

12-9-15 Qualifier Malhotra Stuns Gaskin to Win PSA Florida Open by Sean Reuthe

12-9-15 Peter Powers to Swiss Christmas Challenger Crown

12-9-15 PSL: Three-Two Results Abound as Points Gaps Narrow by Steve Cubbins

12-9-15 Running Clock for Women's Pro Squash Debated on Twitter (courtesy Fram Gommendy)

12-9-15 Liz Irving: Why Not Have a World League with This (Clock)

12-9-15 Oliver Pure 3 Racquet from Pierre Bastien

12-9-15 CSA Women's Video: Columbia v Penn from Michael Bello

12-9-15 US Called Fastest-Growing Market and 'Home to the Professional Squash Tour'

12-9-15 Hamilton's Sam Matlick is NESCAC Men's Player of the Week

12-9-15 Bryan Patterson's Fordham Squad Completes Perfect Weekend at Swarthmore Round Robin

12-9-15 How Hawk-Eye Changed Tennis by Tim Newcomb

12-9-15 Florida Burglary Suspect Nabbed by Alligator

12-8-15
Kuala Lumpur Police Reportedly Investigating Claim by Women's Worlds Organizer


12-8-15 Video: Hong Kong Finals, David v Massaro

12-8-15 Video: Hong Kong Finals, Elshorbagy v Pilley

12-8-15 Daniel Massaro Writes Book 'The Winning Parent'

12-8-15 James Willstrop on Being an Athlete in the Age of Sports Science

12-8-15 L J Anjema Latest Touring Pro Trying to Raise Money

12-8-15 Joshna Chinappa: Before the Game

12-8-15 Video: Delaware Pro Doubles Final

12-8-15 College Highlights from Michael Bello

12-8-15 Yale Squads Control F & M in Openers

12-8-15 Rochester Men Over Princeton 8-1 in December Finale

12-8-15 Trinity Men Lose at 1 & 2, Take Bottom Seven to Beat Bates in Opener

12-8-15 McEnroe Says Tennis Should Shorten Matches, Eliminate Umpires and Warm-Up

12-8-15
Only in the USA

12-8-15 Sports Bubble May Pop by Dave Maney

12-7-15
Elshorbagy and David Triumph In Hong Kong by Nathan Clarke


12-7-15 David Serves Notice, Shuts Down Massaro & Field to Win 80th Title

12-7-15 HK Semis Report by Nathan Clarke

12-7-15 Video: HK Semis, El Welily v Massaro

12-7-15 Video: HK Semis, Elshorbagy v Mosaad

12-7-15 Video: HK Semis, David v Kawy

12-7-15 Video: HK Semis, Matthew v Pilley

12-7-15 Massaro to Advance to World No 1 Despite Defeat

12-7-15 Penn Men Upset Rochester

12-7-15 The Trust is Gone by Kng Zheng Guan

12-7-15 Job Opening: Pro, Iran

12-7-15 Defending National High School Champion Brunswick Opens with Win Over St George's

12-7-15 British Junior Headed to Yale

12-7-15 Seattle Equipment Roundup from Pierre Bastien

12-7-15 Jahangir Endorses Groundbreaking of Pakistan Academy

12-7-15
Sweat Equity Behind Rise of Fitness Boutiques by Karen Heller


12-7-15 90 Seconds with Olivia Blatchford

12-7-15
Innovative New Hampshire Tennis Promoter Jim Westhall, Sr. Dies at 88


12-7-15 Washington Post to Vacate Historic Newsroom

12-5-15
From The Cheap Seats: World Teams Guess, and Women's Pro Squash Needs Running Clock by Ted Gross


12-5-15 Cameron Pilley Knocks Off Greg Gaultier In Hong Kong Open by Nathan Clarke

12-5-15 Video: Hong Kong, Matthew v Mohamed

12-5-15 Video: Hong Kong, Serme v Pallikal

12-5-15 Cairo Men's World Team Championship Unable to Weather Storm, Cancelled, by Alan Thatcher

12-5-15 Aussie Politician Calls for US Travel Warning

12-5-15 Drexel Men Win at No 1, Drop Last 8 to Rochester

12-5-15 Top Banana by Gary Nisbett

12-5-15 Electric Porsche in Development

12-5-15 Study Says Ultra-Athletes May be Paying Price

12-4-15
World Champion Gaultier Comes Through Stern Test To Reach Hong Kong Quarters, Sobhy to Face El Welily by Nathan Clarke


12-4-15 Video: Hong Kong Open, Gaultier v Au

12-4-15 Video: Hong Kong Open, Rosner v Tuominen

12-4-15 Video: Hong Kong Open, David v Tzu-Ling

12-4-15 Video: Hong Kong Open, Au v King

12-4-15 18 Nations Still Standing in Cairo World Men's Teams as Revised DRAWS Released

12-4-15 Egypt Squash Association Hits Back

12-4-15
Top 2 Indians Ghosal & Mangaonkar Reportedly Cite Injuries Following HK Losses, Pull Out of World Teams


12-4-15 Daryl Selby Surprised by Criticism of Worlds Pullout

12-4-15
England Squash Chief Expands on Decision


12-4-15
Fram Gommendy: Let's Go Somewhere Safe

12-4-15 Mike Lupica: No One Safe in the US

12-4-15 5-1 Drexel Men to Host Rochester

12-4-15 Yale Opens Against Franklin & Marshall

12-4-15 Wilson Ripper 135 BLX from Pierre Bastien

12-4-15 Rio Olympics to Charge for Air Conditioning

12-3-15
Dartmouth Men Shock Harvard for First Win Since 1946 by Rob Dinerman

12-3-15 Squash Canada Says It Implored WSF to Re-Locate Men's World Teams from Egypt

12-3-15 Malaysia With No Plans to Join Teams Backing Out of Men's Worlds

12-3-15 BBC Audio Clip, England Squash Explains Worlds' Withdrawal

12-3-15 Malaysia Prime Minister Questions Reported Collapse of Women's World Championships

12-3-15 Yip Stuns Richards To Make History In Hong Kong; Matthew, Gaultier, David & Serme Advance by Nathan Clarke

12-3-15 Video: Hong Kong Men's First Round, 1

12-3-15 Video: Hong Kong Men's First Round, 2

12-3-15 Video: Hong Kong Men's First Round, 3

12-3-15 Video: Hong Kong Men's First Round, 4

12-3-15 Asics Gel Domain 3's from Pierre Bastien

12-3-15 Core Doctor Says Stop Calling Everything a Sports Hernia

12-3-15
Jim Zug on Dartmouth-Harvard


12-2-15
US Reportedly Joins Canada and Four Other Nations in Backing Out of World Men's Teams

12-2-15 Statement from the World Squash Federation

12-2-15 Team England Statement

12-2-15 US Squash Statement

12-2-15
PSA Statement: 2015 Women’s World Championship

12-2-15 Greg Gaultier Back At World No 1 in Latest PSA Rankings by Nathan Clarke

12-2-15
Serme Stuns Golan In Hong Kong Opener, Sobhy Advances by Nathan Clarke

12-2-15 Video: Hong Kong Women's First Round, 1

12-2-15 Video: Hong Kong Women's First Round, 2

12-2-15 John White's Drexel Men Knock Off Princeton

12-2-15 Penn Women Ready to Drop Hammer by Corey Henry

12-2-15 Former Great Ross Norman Punched on Southwest London Street

12-2-15 Video: Bentley Cup Final, Mudge/Gould v Mathur/Badan

12-2-15 Capitol Squash Receives Bill Belichick Foundation Grant

12-2-15 A Return to the Tennis Minor Leagues

12-2-15 NFL Officiating at All-Time Low by Greg Bedard

12-1-15
Women's World Championships Reportedly Called Off 2 Weeks Before Opening Ceremony

12-1-15 US Men's Team Headed to Cairo World Teams for Now

12-1-15 Gawad Captures Edmonton Open Title by Sean Reuthe

12-1-15 Millie Tomlinson Overcomes Nele Gilis to Lift London Open Silverware by Sean Reuthe

12-1-15 Amanda Sobhy in Action in Hong Kong First Round, Report

12-1-15 HK Men's & Women's Preview

12-1-15 Gaultier Wins Squash Player’s Player of the Month Award

12-1-15 Drexel Men Closing the Gap on Penn

12-1-15 Princeton Squads Hit the Road

12-1-15 Sunday Times Latest Sports Books

12-1-15 Youth Sports' Refs Struggling with Respect Among Growing Hostility by Kurt Voigt

12-1-15 Time Management from 13 Olympic Athletes

12-1-15 Bugatti Chiron Claims World's Fastest Production Car