Two national champions rule the wall with flicks, nicks, and immense talent. TWO PLAYING STYLES dominate elite squash today: English and Egyptian. The English style emphasizes steadiness, long points, and superior fitness—winning, essentially, by wearing down an opponent’s physical reserves and minimizing one’s own errors. In contrast, the Egyptian style accents the creative and deceptive […]
t’s a Sunday in the middle of the spring semester finals period, and Harvard senior Amanda Sobhy is competing at the World Squash Doubles Championships. Calling in from Chicago, Sobhy says that she is finding time to study but that it is difficult to provide full attention to reading notes when you are just an […]
After rupturing her achilles during her encounter with Olivia Blatchford at the Ciudad de Floridablanca last month, American number one Amanda Sobhy has been sidelined for the remainder of this season. But the charismatic Boston-based lefty has been watching on with interest as the action in El Gouna – for the Orascom Development Women’s World […]
World No.6 Amanda Sobhy will be sidelined for most of the year after having surgery on a ruptured left Achilles tendon. But the United States No.1 has her sights set on a return in December’s World Championships in Manchester, England. The surgery came seven days after she suffered the injury in the semi-finals of the […]
After rupturing her achilles during her encounter with Olivia Blatchford at the Ciudad de Floridablanca last month, American number one Amanda Sobhy has been sidelined for the remainder of this season. But the charismatic Boston-based lefty has been watching on with interest as the action in El Gouna – for the Orascom Development Women’s World […]
After a long week of squash, we were down to the final two – Greg vs. Karim and Nour vs. Raneem. Both players in the men’s event were vying for their first El Gouna Open title while Nour and Raneem were looking to be crowned the Women’s World Champion. We didn’t get any epic encounters […]
After rupturing her achilles during her encounter with Olivia Blatchford at the Ciudad de Floridablanca last month, American number one Amanda Sobhy has been sidelined for the remainder of this season. But the charismatic Boston-based lefty has been watching on with interest as the action in El Gouna – for the Orascom Development Women’s World […]
After rupturing her achilles during her encounter with Olivia Blatchford at the Ciudad de Floridablanca last month, American number one Amanda Sobhy has been sidelined for the remainder of this season. But the charismatic Boston-based lefty has been watching on with interest as the action in El Gouna – for the Orascom Development Women’s World […]
Amanda Sobhy already is the top squash player the U.S. has ever produced. At No. 6 in the world, the 5-foot-8 left-hander ranks higher than any other American-born athlete — male or female — in the history of the Professional Squash Association. [Read More] […]
Amanda Sobhy was born with squash DNA in her genes. Her parents Khaled and Jodie were squash champions and it was their daughter’s destiny to end up on a squash court. [Read More] […]
