The founder of the squash and education movement, Greg Zaff talks about the original business plan, the people and values that inspired the creation of SquashBusters twenty-five years ago.

Ep.65 Greg Zaff

This month Access Youth Academy is opening an exciting, eight-court facility in San Diego. Renato Paiva, the executive director of Access, tells of his remarkable journey from being a junior player in Brazil to leading an innovative urban squash program.

Ep.67 Renato Paiva

Now back at England Squash, Chris Robertson is continuing his run as a world-class squash coach. But he was once a rising star as a player, coming out of Brisbane, Australia to capture the World Junior title in 1984.

Ep.68 Chris Robertson

Barrett Takesian helped create the pathbreaking Portland Community Squash. Now, the thirty-one year old is helping US Squash make community squash a movement that is dramatically changing the game.

Ep.70  Barrett Takesian

A former world champion and world No.1, Laura Massaro has just come out with a must-read memoir.

Ep.71 Laura Massaro

Squash and sex and selling the game. Steve Line takes us behind the scenes off perhaps the most explosive photographs in squash history.

Ep.72 Steve Line—Hot Bot

What is the difference between squash and golf? Dixon Hill, a top U.S. junior in both sports, takes a stab at that age-old question.

Ep.75 Dixon Hill

A junior at Drexel and All American squash player, Alina Bushma talks about how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has affected her and her family.

Ep.76 Alina Bushma

What makes a squash club survive and thrive? Peter Nicol and Jess Winstanley, proprietors of Nicol Squash, a new four-court public club in Manhattan, talk about one recipe for success.

Ep.77  Peter Nicol & Jess Winstanley

In his new memoir, In the Early Times, Tad Friend eloquently writes about the journeys that he and his father have made on and off the squash court.

Ep.79 Tad Friend

How does San Diego, historically one of the smallest squash cities in the country, have one of America’s best community squash facilities and most successful youth enrichment programs? Blair Sadler explains why.

Ep. 80 Blair Sadler

One of the greatest South American squash players in history, Catalina Pelaez is also a survivor of the worst terrorist attack ever on a squash facility.

Ep.88 Catalina Pelaez

The squash legend retires after forty-two seasons as a college coach.

Ep.89 Paul Assaiante

Steve Line tells the stories behind some of his most famous images, including Awad v. Jahangir in 1982, Jahangir in 1988 and Willstrop & Matthew in 2009.

Ep.90 Steve Line—Classic Photographs

England’s national coach, David Campion has been in the game of squash since age seven when he got his first lesson from his future step-father, Malcolm Willstrop.

Ep.91 David Campion

The irrepressible couple that changed the fundamentals of squash, Hazel and Tom join OTG to talk about the inaugural issue of Squash News in 1978, relaunching the U.S. Open in 1985 and their list of the greatest players they ever saw.

Ep. 92 Hazel White Jones & Tom Jones

The man behind the famous New York City steel court, Robert Gibralter talks about what it is like to play squash outdoors.

Ep.93 Robert Gibralter

Our newest squash centenarian, Newt Meade joins OTG to talk about his squash career that reaches back to the 1940s.

Ep. 94 Newt Meade

The behind-the-scenes media master at the PSA for the past decade, Nathan Clarke dissects a half dozen of his best photographs.

Ep.95 Nathan Clarke

How did squash get into the Olympic Games? Ned Edwards, a leader in the effort, tells the story.

Ep. 96 Ned Edwards

Dave Talbott, Mark Talbott, Guy Cipriano and Sam Fraidin himself tell the true story behind one of the game’s most notorious practical jokes.

Ep.97  Sam Fraidin

America’s top player talks about her second Achilles rupture and another long road to recovery.

Ep. 98 Amanda Sobhy

Jack Wyant, the Penn coach, talks with OTG about the future of college squash.

Ep.99  Jack Wyant

Now completing his twentieth year as president & CEO at US Squash, Kevin Klipstein returns to OTG to talk about milestones, past and future and gives insight on what American squash might look like in July 2028.

Ep.100  Kevin Klipstein

Ep.101 Farewell

Nour El Tayeb and Ali Farag are newlyweds, having gotten married last summer. They are also two of the most exciting and exceptional young players on tour. They talk with Outside the Glass about  honeymooning in Vegas, cattle farming, how they coach each other between games, the brilliance of Harvard coach Mike Way, playing in front of the Great Pyramids and what El Tayeb’s grandmother always says to Farag.

Ep. 13 Nour El Tayeb & Ali Farag

OTG is starting a new series of interviews about memories of your best win, your worst loss and the first time you played squash. Olivia Blatchford, a longtime Team USA member and currently world No.27, inaugurates the series with an insightful look back at victories in Mexico and Ireland, defeats in New York and the perfect roll corner. How do you incorporate the “I don’t lose, I learn” mentality? What is your theory about how to play match points? What do you do when your five-year-old says, “When do I get to play?”

Ep. 14 Olivia Blatchford

Earlier this month, Amanda Sobhy, the world No.6 player, suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in the semifinals of a tournament in Colombia; she was at match point against fellow American Olivia Blatchford. Sobhy talks with Outside The Glass about the lead-up to the injury, her harrowing journey to the hospital that night and her plan for the long road back.

Ep. 16 Amanda Sobhy

In two years’ time, US Squash will open the Specter Center, a world-class, twenty-court, 65,000 square-foot facility in Philadelphia. Kevin Klipstein, Ned Edwards, Steve Gregg and Rich Wade explain what it will look like.

Ep. 37 Specter Center

The GOAT of squash—as reckoned by many observers—might be Ramy Ashour, who just announced his retirement from the pro tour. In a remarkable interview with Outside The Glass, Ashour talks about what injuries have taught him, his best win and worst loss, his ideas about scoring and how he ate his first squash trophy.

Ep. 41 Ramy Ashour

Liz Irving has been Nicol David’s coach for the past seventeen years. As David retires, OTG talks with Irving (the daughter Jenny Irving from Ep.5) about how she guided David to unprecedented heights.

Ep.43 Liz Irving

At the 1994 British Open, Steve Line shot one of the most legendary images in twentieth century squash: Mir Zaman Gul smacking heads with Anthony Hill. Line tells OTG the story behind the photograph.

Ep.60  Steve Line—Head-Butt

One of the world’s leading referees, Marko Podgorsek speaks to Outside The Glass about squash in one of the more hidden and underappreciate corners of the game, Slovenia.

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