I play at a leisure centre and we do have a sauna but it’s shared with the pool / gym users. It’s currently being repaired and I’m missing it! Just wondered how common it was to have saunas in squash clubs or is it considered to be a high end / posh club thing?

If you have one how often do you use it?

Saying its limited to 300... racket is on sale for 15 quid on alibaba i managed to find it from a search taotao initially and found linked sites .... load of poop making a canadian site for it . Granted it looks well but i guess the mark up will be insane

App on TV is telling me that semi final is starting soon. Android app plays fine on tablet but won't cast to TV. Web sqush TV plays fine on tablet but can't cast to my TV.

Loyal customer for 15 years and could anyways cast seamlessly. They need to fix this soon or I'm done. I love squash and want to support it's growth but this is amateur-hour carry on.

Is it so hard for them to enable me to cast to my TV so I can watch Asal block, hand grab, try to decapitate lads with his back hand on my 55" led TV?

Come on ghoys.

I get that the PSA is hyped about how beautiful it is it play squash with the pyramids in the backdrop but the atmosphere actually seems rather dull and boring. There was hardly anyone in the stands for Coll vs Elias. This is a top 4 matchup in the semifinals of a diamond event and they can’t get anyone to come and watch?

Edit: just checked local time and the match may have ran past 1am?

What workouts are best for squash I’ve got the basics down but still like there is more I could be doing

He does not seem to enjoy playing that much anymore, I think he already made up his mind to retire soon.

This is a lovely article about Chris Gordon, who retires after a loooooooong career - he holds the record for the most PSA events played. I love his approach to keeping squash fun.

https://www.psasquashtour.com/news/all-time-psa-events-record-holder-chris-gordon-retires-from-professional-squash/

Hey everyone,

I’ve been playing squash for years and have been thinking about an idea I’d like to get some honest feedback on before I spend time building it.

The idea is a squash match analysis app where you upload a video of yourself playing, and it analyses your performance and gives you feedback on your game.

For example, it could potentially identify things like:

• Strengths and weaknesses: What you’re doing well and where you’re struggling.
• Point analysis: Patterns in points you win and lose, and what might be contributing to those outcomes.
• Tactical mistakes: Getting caught out of position, leaving the ball short, poor shot selection, or giving your opponent opportunities.
• Areas to improve: Specific things to work on in your next training session or match.

The goal would be to give players some of the insights they might get from having a coach review their match footage, without needing to pay for a coaching session every time.

My initial thought is to let people upload 10 minutes of footage for free to try it out, with the option to use more analysis if they find it useful.

I want to be realistic about this, though. Squash is a pretty niche sport, and analysing a fast-moving game accurately from video is a technical challenge. I haven’t built the app yet, and I don’t want to spend months building something that nobody actually wants.

I’d genuinely appreciate your feedback:

1. Do you currently record your matches, and if so, do you ever go back and analyse them?
2. Would feedback like this actually be useful to you, or do you think a human coach is much better for this?
3. What would you most want the app to tell you after a match?
4. Would you pay for something like this if the analysis was genuinely useful? If so, would you prefer paying per match, buying a monthly subscription, or something else?
5. What do you think would make an app like this useless or frustrating?

I'm not here to pitch a finished product or claim AI can replace a coach. I'm trying to figure out whether there's a real problem worth solving and what players would actually want.

Thanks, keen to hear your thoughts, including the criticisms.

Folks from India, where are you watching the semi finals of CIB Egyptian open. Its a diamond event and Jio is not showing it. Is it on any other OTT? Or has squash failed to find a buyer this year?

Been off the court for a couple of years with a lower back injury. Things have been slowly getting better to the point now where I'm thinking of getting on court in the coming months hopefully. I will make sure my back is 100% right before I start up again. But what are some squash specific excersices I can do at gym to get my body ready?

I have a couple I've already started doing but keen to hear more.

I've been doing:

Jump squats

Box jumps

Walking lunges weighted one side

Interval running

Hi all, I just moved to Dubai from San Francisco and I’ll be here at least through January. I’m looking for people to play squash with regularly.

About me: I’m a competitive amateur, rated about 4.15 on the US Squash scale. Back home I played 4x a week. I’m happy to play matches, drills, or solo-hitting partners, and I’m open to joining a club box league or a social group.

I’m based around Downtown Dubai and can travel within reason. I’m flexible on times, including weekday mornings and evenings.

If you play, run a group, or know a club with a good playing community or league, I’d love to hear from you. Comment or DM me.

Good to see more and more players finally calling out the stuff ruining the game.

I wonder how they think in Egypt about the direction of the sport globally. Seems like the post-Farag generation has lost some of the sportmanship along the way? Is it the result of the extremely fierce competition in the country, get result or you are a ”nobody”.

If this continues the sport is in trouble. Many games before and the latest Asal/Zakaria, horrible game to watch…just the general discomfort of players arguing with the referee all the time as if they would be above the sport. No respect for the ref! The ref was frustrated as well….just really horrible (I stopped viewing after first game…)

Honestly don’t they see that they need to get the whole sport up?

With the return of Gohar V ElSherbini later this evening it got us thinking, what has been the greatest rivalry on tour?

Let us know your thoughts down below 👇

Joel has unfortunately withdrawn from the Egyptian Open (hopefully he's treated with more empathy than when Asal withdrew).

Did he get too far sucked into heavy weightlifting?

Anyone seen Atkinson interview on SQUASHTV just now? From what she said it looks like even James Willstrop had enough of Asal's behaviour.

"He was the lone voice disagreeing with the other people around Mostafa”

Is it good, what does it play like

Asal v Zakaria

I personally don't care who wins, I just want it to be slugfest and the winner taking an absolute beating.

Latest SquashMatch app has been updated. Now better than ever!

With over 15 years of user activity, we've been running local leagues for the community.

https://www.squashmatch.com/

(includes links to the native apps)

We made a classic frame with wood grain matching colors
Limited to 300 pieces
The all-wood grain color scheme is really quite rare

https://reddit.com/link/1x4v1jm/video/qbcdw2jp78vh1/player