WORLD SQUASH LIBRARY

Since the formation of the player associations there have been 15 women and 23 men who reached the world number one ranking spot. Here.....

PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) accorded Jahangir Khan the title of PIA’s Sportsman of the Millenium, and produced a book to...

The European Club Championships which began in 1980, are being contested this week at the Roehampton Club in London. The host club are...

The 1st Men’s South African Open began 50 years ago in August 1974. See the programme welcome, draw and results here. Australians won ...

The men’s and women’s World Opens debuted in 1976, but two years earlier in 1974 an unofficial men’s World Open was held in Australia....

Windhoek, the Namibian capital, has been more recently associated with hosting the Men’s World Juniors ten years ago, but back in 1982......

World Champion motor racing driver James Hunt was a talented squash player. In the February 1979 edition of a British magazine called.....

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......