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by Alan Thatcher on Mar 30, 2023The concept of outdoor squash has received heavyweight support thanks to two significant recent developments in the industry. Outdoor squash courts such as those at Squash Para Todos in El Salvador...
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by Alan Thatcher on Mar 29, 2023Squash Mad asks recently-retired Mathieu Castagnet his influences and his current views on the sport Playing for the French national team was a very important part of your career wasn’t it? M.C...
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by Alan Thatcher on Mar 28, 2023With upsets at the Optasia Championships, the British Open is looking wide open. It could be a case of last man standing, writes RJ Mitchell Egypt’s Mazen Hesham, arguably the game’s greatest...
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by Alan Thatcher on Mar 27, 2023At the end of 2022, Mathieu Castagnet announced he was retiring, aged 36. The French Warrior, a nickname that paid tribute to his fighting spirit on court, looks back on a career which had reached...
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by Alan Thatcher on Mar 26, 2023It was almost as though he had never been away as Karim Abdel Gawad won his first PSA World Tour title in a year in capturing the Optasia Championships squash title. Gawad, the 2016 world champion,...
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by Alan Thatcher on Mar 26, 2023Mahmoud Asal, father of embattled World No.1 Mostafa, has poured scorn on the “unprecedented” and “severe” sanctions imposed upon his son, while also claiming that the young star has received...
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by Alan Thatcher on Mar 24, 2023The evergreen Fredrik Johnson says he “may have the longest career in squash history” after winning an astounding 56th Swedish national title. The 59-year-old won the over-55s trophy at the Swedish...
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by Alan Thatcher on Mar 24, 2023World No.58 and event wildcard Charlie Lee pulled off an astounding upset at the Optasia Championship by beating world No.1-chasing Mohamed ElShorbagy in four games. Lee (who spoke to Squash Mad last...
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by Alan Thatcher on Mar 22, 2023WIMBLEDON — “It’s like Saturday night fever!” drifted PSA commentator Joey Barrington’s phrase through the curtains at the Optasia Championships. Amid some of the bluster, bitterness and bad...
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by Alan Thatcher on Mar 22, 2023Having a balanced view of squash’s most schismatic star Mostafa Asal is impossible. He polarises opinion like no other player in the game’s history. He demands attention. Ignoring him is not an...
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