WORLD SQUASH LIBRARY

Looking back at Australian national rankings in 1986, players such as Rodney Martin, Rodney Eyles, Michelle Martin, Sarah Fitz-Gerald and...

When Sheffield’s Abbeydale Park and Hallamshire clubs hosted the World Masters 1999, the championship programme outlined their........

Once glass backwalls opened up viewing opportunities, seating systems began to be offered to clubs. Courtback, a product from Audience...

Passes on clips or lanyards are a part of life in general. For squash in particular, here is a random selection.....

Jonah Barrington didn’t win the Men’s British Open in 1976 – he lost in the quarter finals – but he did save it. Here is what happened in...

The Men’s British Open 50 years ago in Sheffield in 1974 which didn’t feature a final as Mohamed Yasin having beaten holder Jonah.........

This month 45 years ago the SRA (the English men’s national federation) produced its first newsletter. It gave a snapshot of the time.......

Squash Rackets News interviewed Heather McKay in the next edition in May 1971. Another good read. See it here.........

The short-lived Squash Rackets News in England featured an interesting and informative interview with Gogi Alauddin in March 1971 by.....

With qualification rounds being played for the World Championships, the Library looks back at qualifications in past decades via the 1993...

120 years ago in April 1904, The Tatler Magazine in UK was already floating the idea of a world champion. 72 years later (in 1976) the...

When one thinks of unusual places for squash courts a gas rig is not likely to spring to mind. However, in 1982 a Total owned rig in the...

In 2018 Ljubljana became the home for six courts built inside a wooden building. Called Squashland, here are the details......

In Feb 1959 the Merion Cricket Club in Philadelphia hosted the 26th Women’s Open and the USA v GB Wolfe-Noel Cup........

Forty years ago, Nottingham in England was squash-central for a number of players. Writer Rex Bellamy wrote in detail about the city......

In 1986 the ISRF (now WSF) and ISPA (now PSA) got together to try and jointly market a men’s World Grand Prix. This prospectus was.........

On 30 March 1983 Jahangir Khan beat Gamal Awad in a then world record 165 minutes – for only four games! The event was the final of the.....

Australian international squash championships began in 1931 with the Men’s Amateur, followed one year later by the Women’s. Both ran.....

Immediately after World War 2 Mahmoud Karim dominated the sport, winning four British Open titles before the Egyptian he lost twice to .....

Following on from the WISPA Promotional visits the WSF took up the mantle from 2011, taking a top male and female player, along with......