Hardball

The 2019 U.S. Squash Hardball Singles Championships took place at the Harvard Club, February 22-24, in New York City. Twenty-six players competed across five age divisions and men’s and women’s Open divisions. Two first-time national champions were crowned in the form of Annapolis’ Doug Rice and Philadelphia’s Richard Tanfield. Rice, a former 45+ national champion, [...]

Hardball Nationals registration closes at noon EST on Tuesday, February 19. [...]

The thirty-ninth annual U.S. Intercollegiate Squash Doubles Championships were completed Sunday with riveting results. Philadelphia Cricket Club hosted the tournament, which was originally started in 1942. Twenty-one teams came from Connecticut College, Cornell, Fordham, Franklin & Marshall, George Washington, Hobart, Penn, Rochester and Yale but it was the U.S. Naval Academy which again dominated the [...]

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill hosted the first collegiate hardball tournament in twenty-five years, April 5-8. [...]

The 2018 U.S. Squash Hardball Singles Championships took place at the Harvard Club of New York, February 23-35. [...]

Sign up for the 2018 National Championships on ussquash.com/championships. [...]

The 2017 Stifel World Doubles Championships are streaming and scoring live on www.worlddoubles.com/live, September 21-24. [...]

Michael Desaulniers, Ben Heckscher and Maurice Heckscher have been announced as the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame Class of 2017. [...]

The 2017 National Doubles debuted a new Dunlop high altitude hardball. [...]

Report courtesy of Tefft Smith. The 2017 U.S. Squash National Hardball Singles Championships were held at the Merion Cricket Club the weekend of February 24-26, with outstanding performances yielding a number of new and repeat National Champions. Headlining the tournament, which drew new and renewed hardball singles interest from many, was the impressive play of [...]

This year's twelve-tournament Hardball Singles Squash season is underway. [...]

The U.S. National Hardball Singles Championships had a final and resoundingly successful farewell as a national championship. [...]

Merion Cricket Club will host the final U.S. Hardball Singles Championships February 26-28. [...]

By Mark Hinckley and Peter MacGuire The Gold Racquets, graciously hosted by Rockaway Hunting Club in Lawrence, New York, is the nation’s oldest invitational tournament. It was founded in 1928 and remains a cornerstone event on the winter’s fixtures list, always on the first weekend of December. For the first time in the eighty-four years [...]

The 2015 U.S. Squash Hardball Singles Nationals Squash Championships---in its 108th year--- were dominated by the strength of hometown players [...]

The U.S. Hardball Singles Championship heads to the "City of Brotherly Love" this weekend, February 27-March l, as the culminating event of the hardball season [...]

by Tefft Smith For the first time in years, it rained on Saturday. But the sun came out on Sunday so the award ceremony and lunch were held under blue skies and 75° temperatures at Betty Woodworth’s home. She has been at fifty-four of the fifty-nine award ceremonies and looks forward to hosting us at [...]

Hardball Singles has a long, storied history in the United States--running tournaments at the national level since 1907--and the tradition continues this week. [...]

Natalie Grainger & Randy Lim (red) defeated her defending co-champion Steve Scharff & Meredeth Quick in the Mixed Doubles Open final Sunday in Greenwich, Connecticut. [...]

The U.S. Mixed Squash Doubles Championships makes its fall debut this weekend hosted at the Round Hill Club in Greenwich, CT. [...]

Eight-time U.S. softball singles champion Julian Illingworth won his first U.S. Hardball Singles Championship in his first attempt at the Harvard Club of New York. [...]

Reinforcing its connection to the U.S. Olympic Committee and US Squash’s emphasis on national teams, the Association has rolled out a new logo and started the process of rebranding. [...]

US Squash has announced U.S. Championships dates for the 2013-2014 season. [...]

The 2013 Hardball Singles National Championships were held this weekend at the Merion Cricket Club in Philadelphia with Chris Walker emerging as the champion of the Open division. [...]

For more than 30 years, from as early as 1981, at the urging of the Junior Committee which encouraged and then later required the wearing of protective eyewear during accredited (sanctioned) play, the priority of ensuring the safety of the participants has been part of US Squash policies. The Association later adopted the American Society [...]