WORLD SQUASH LIBRARY

In 1974 this item appeared in the British Daily Express newspaper, indicating that even before all-glass showcourts TV had become...

20 years ago PSA produced an eight page brochure aimed at encouraging possible promoters to........

During the early years of world squash body formed in 1967, the International Squash Rackets Federation (ISRF), now WSF, was felt to........

A year after his tenth and last British Open title in 1991 (pic) Jahangir Khan, then aged 28, dropped out of the world top.............

In 1952 former British Open champion Donald Butcher wrote this booklet to introduce squash to prospective players, including advising.......

This week’s Singapore Open Squash Championship, returning after a Covid break, was first played in 1970, with the.......

In March 2004 PSA announced that Men’s Tour Point-A-Rally game scoring to 15 points would be dropped to 11. This was the subject of much....

Charles Arnold, the professional at the Bath Club in London, wrote his Handbook on Squash Rackets in 1926. Here is .......

The Library’s first edition of memorable squash quotes is here. Enjoy these amusing or insightful utterings, and if you can add more for...

The first ISPA (now PSA) Handbook published in 1977, included a foreword from President Ken Hiscoe, reproduced here.......

On the day after the British Open final at the Wembley Conference Centre in London, on 11 April 1984 England took on Pakistan in a.......

A seeding protest and walkout in 1974 led to the first world Men’s player body being formed with Jonah Barrington as............

In 1988 the World Federation pressed the case for squash being included in the Barcelona Olympic Games 1992 as a demonstration sport.......

On 11 August 1985 journalist Martin Bronstein reported on the Shark racket, square head with an angled handle, intended to.........

In 1981 while points were still only won on serve, to speed up scoring and provide defined length matches for broadcast, a Supasquash.......

A hundred years after the first squash courts were built, it was 1967 when the WSF (then called ISRF) was formed. Here is the story.........

It is generally agreed that the name of the sport came from the ‘squashy’ ball, but what was the composition of the early balls? How.......

In 1973 UK’s Sunday Times newspaper writer John Hopkins wrote this article for the British Open programme that year. It provides..........

There was a period when courts were built with concrete walls. A leading company was Banbury, who..........

After back walls had begun to appear, there came a brief intermediate stage at the end of the 1970s decade where glass back.........