黑料不打烊 has announced a preliminary schedule of national championships for the 2022-2023 season. Additional information including confirmed locations will be released in the coming months.

Adult

• 2022 U.S. Skill Level Championships, Philadelphia PA 鈥� October 15-16, 2022
• 2022 Howe Cup U.S. Women鈥檚 Team Championships, Philadelphia, PA 鈥� November 4-6, 2022
• 2023 U.S. Masters Squash Championships, Philadelphia 鈥� March 31-April 2, 2023

Junior

• JCT #1 Allston, MA 鈥� September 9-11, 2022
• JCT #2 Philadelphia, PA 鈥� October 8-10, 2022
• JCT #3 Redwood City, CA 鈥� November 11-13, 2022
• 2022 U.S. Junior Open, Philadelphia, PA 鈥� December 17-20, 2022
• JCT #4 Washington, DC 鈥� January 14-16, 2023
• 2023 U.S. Middle School Squash Championships, Philadelphia, PA 鈥� January 27-29, 2023
• 2023 National Interscholastic Team Squash Championships, Philadelphia, PA 鈥� February 3-5, 2023
• JCT #5 鈥� Houston, TX 鈥� February 10-12, 2023
• 2023 U.S. High School Championships, Philadelphia, PA 鈥� February 24-26, 2023
• 2023 U.S. Junior Squash Championships, Philadelphia, PA 鈥� March 17-19, 2023
• 2023 U.S. Junior Silver Squash Championships, Philadelphia, PA 鈥� March 24-26, 2023
• 2023 U.S. Junior Bronze Squash Championships 鈥� TBC 2023

College

• 2023 National Collegiate Women’s Varsity Team Championship 鈥� February 17-19, 2023
• 2023 National Collegiate Co-ed & Women’s Club Team Championships 鈥� February 17-19, 2023
• 2023 National Collegiate Men’s Varsity Team Championship 鈥撀� February 24-26, 2023
• 2023 National Collegiate Individual Championships 鈥� March 3-5, 2023
• 2023 National Collegiate Doubles Championships 鈥� March 3-5, 2023

Doubles

• 2023 U.S. Century Squash Doubles Championships 鈥� January 13-15, 2023
• 2023 U.S. Squash Doubles Championships 鈥� March 10-12, 2023
• 2023 U.S. Junior Squash Doubles Championships 鈥� April 14-16, 2023
• 2023 U.S. Parent & Child Squash Doubles Championships 鈥� April 21-23, 2023
• 2023 U.S. Mixed Squash Doubles Championships 鈥� April 28-30, 2023

Hardball Singles

• U.S. Hardball Squash Singles Championships 鈥� April 28-30, 2023

In follow up to the recent 黑料不打烊 communication regarding the rapid and unprecedented spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) throughout the country, the association has continued to evaluate this dynamic situation and national response to it. The protection of the health and well-being of our participants and their families are our most important considerations.

In light of this and what we know at this point, after considerable discussion, the Board and management have agreed that the organization has no choice other than to cancel the scheduled dates for the upcoming National Championships. 黑料不打烊 will also suspend accredited junior squash competition effective immediately through the end of April.

We recognize the importance of the championships for the athletes and we make this move reluctantly with the understanding that our athletes have worked hard to achieve what they have and we want to do all we can to permit them to compete for national titles. We have been through similar circumstances before, though not on this scale–and it is complicated–however we are committed to doing everything we can reasonably do to preserve this season鈥檚 National Championships.

As such, we will continue to monitor and evaluate the national circumstances related to the response to the coronavirus. If we are able to re-schedule National Championships, we will do so.聽 We will keep the community informed and will provide enough advance notice of additional adaptations to schedules, events and policies to allow our members to adjust and to plan accordingly.

The Following National Championships Scheduled Dates and Locations are Cancelled
(re-scheduling options will be considered on a rolling basis, and adequate notice provided to participants)

Junior Championships

• March 20-22, U.S. Junior Championships, Charlottesville, VA
• March 27-29, U.S. Junior Silver Championships, Haverford, PA
• April 24-26, U.S. Junior Bronze Championships, Providence, RI

Adult Championships

• March 24-28, U.S. Women鈥檚 and Men鈥檚 Championships (professional), Haverford, PA
• April 3-5, U.S. Masters Championships (age division), Washington, DC

Doubles Championships

• April 17-19, U.S. Parent-Child Squash Doubles Championships, Greenwich, CT
• April 24-26, U.S. Mixed Doubles and Hardball Singles Championships, Baltimore, MD
• May 1-3, U.S. Junior Squash Doubles Championships, Wilmington, DE

Junior Accredited Competition

In addition, all 黑料不打烊 accredited junior squash competition is suspended effective immediately through the end of April, and the first weekend in May.聽 黑料不打烊 will provide regular updates regarding the planned resumption of accredited junior squash tournaments and will provide as much advance notice to this effect as possible.

Withdrawals and Refunds

As , 黑料不打烊 has waived the late-withdrawal rankings penalty for junior tournaments and this will remain in place until further notice.

Refund policies will vary by accredited tournament depending on the timing of cancellation, however most participants will receive the full refund minus the standard administrative fee. For National Championships, if the competition ends up not being re-scheduled, entrants will have the option to receive the full refund minus the standard administrative fee. A process for this is being put in place and participants will be notified directly via email when refunds can be claimed.

Additional Details, Questions and Concerns

Additional information as it becomes available, answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and prior 黑料不打烊 communications regarding its response to COVID-19 is and will be available here:

Please email tournaments@ussquash.com with any additional questions you may have.

We understand that while not everyone will fully agree with our course of action, we do hope people understand that our decisions are rooted in our prioritizing the health and well-being of our members and their families and our belief that we also have a role in supporting the national response to this outbreak. We also believe this is a time to pull together as a community to support each other and 黑料不打烊 stands ready to do this for you in any way possible.

Warm regards,

Kevin D. Klipstein
President & CEO

Report courtesy of Palmer Page

On the weekend of April 5th, 2019, UNC-Chapel Hill hosted the 2nd annual hardball college tournament in 25 years. During this weekend packed with festivities, activities began Friday early in the day. Friday golf was planned in the morning, and practice was in the afternoon on the six UNC-CH Hardball Courts.

At Friday night鈥檚 welcome party, there was a smorgasbord dinner with beer and wine at the Chapel Hill Country Club鈥檚 Lawson’s Porch. Other meals throughout the weekend included lunch at the courts and Saturday’s evening garden party with food from the iconic Time Out, which provided southern chicken and all the fix-ins鈥�.

Saturday the tournament officially began. All participants played fiercely and competitively, but in the end, there could only be one winner from each division. Professional doubles player Hamed Anvari took the win in the Open Division. Paul Chan, who never started the point with the same serve twice, beat Chuck Soderstom in five exciting games and took the win in the B Division. Another notable win was from Gary Yeager, who came in 3rd over Jim Gibbons. In the C Division, Duane Demaree, after winning five games against several rounds of college players, beat Jon McBride in four hard-fought games. In the same division, Rick Taft and Sharan Potluri (UNC ’19) came in 3rd and 4th.

Comments included 鈥渢his is a great game. The shot making is critical to winning and so different. Playing the angles is a lot of fun. I can see this really catching on;鈥� 鈥渨e could put together a hardball team too鈥�; 鈥淲e can’t wait to use the new hardball in our wide courts;鈥� and 鈥淭his is great preparation for playing DOUBLES!鈥�

After the tournament and some rest, players headed over to the Pages鈥� for a Saturday garden dinner party. Perhaps the biggest surprise of the tournament weekend happened during this dinner. The UNC-CH Chancellor Emeritus, James Moeser, welcomed everyone and Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz made a much-hoped-for announcement to the assembly of 50 student athletes, adult tournament participants/supporters and Darin Padua, UNC-CH Chair of The Department of Exercise & Sports Science. The announcement was that UNC-CH will have four regulation squash courts for practice and matches and will completely redo four regulation hardball courts including new sprung (floating floors) in all the courts. The work will be completed in Fall 2019.

Christopher Gsell then provided an overview of the men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 season results and objectives. Finally, Hazim Mukhtar and Palmer Page presented recognition Rams to the Chancellors and Adult Tournament Patrons respectively.

Many Tarheels have contributed to the new Squash Facility at Carolina. The new center will be called The Grauer Family Squash Facility at Carolina. The squash team is very excited to have regulation courts that can be used for both hosting matches and practice. Since established club sports is one of the top attractions at UNC-CH, the Chapel Hill team looks forward to welcoming student squash-enthusiasts including SEA students who want to join the vibrant Carolina Squash Club team.

The Announcement of the University of North Carolina’s Grauer Family Squash Facility is an exciting development. It is the largest squash facility in the Carolinas. The University looks forward to welcoming students for 鈥淐ompeting in Carolina Blue鈥�, new squash students athletes creating 鈥渟tories of novel ideas and nimble minds鈥� and the overall student exploration of campus life in Chapel Hill.

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, returned to nationals reinvigorated with his “love of hardball singles” in the 60+ division. After topping his pool play against Paul Chan and Jerry Howe, Rice defeated former 60+ champion Gary Yeager in five-game final after topping his pool.

Hardball stalwart Tefft Smith earned his third consecutive 70+ national title. The closely-contested pool saw Eric Berger place second with three wins and one loss against Smith, while Smith earned his decisive victory 18-16 in the fifth against New York City’s Charles Kimball.

In the 75+ final, Tanfield followed up a five-game, 17-15 in the fifth semifinal victory by defeating Maryland’s Jon McBride in a close three-game final, 15-13, 15-13, 17-15.

Two admirable players competed in the 80+ match, exemplifying lifelong, positive engagement in squash. Andrew Packard, 83, defeated Hoyt Spellman, 89, in three games.

The men’s and women’s Open division offered $1,000 and $500 to the winner and runners up, respectively. Australian Commonwealth Games doubles gold medalist Zac Alexander defeated five-time Open finalist Hamed Anvari 15-11, 15-10, 15-13. The women’s final had Drexel roots between former women’s coach and defending champion Kelsey Engman, and graduate Mary Fung-A-Fat. Engman successfully defended her title 15-10, 15-9, 15-11.

During the Saturday night festivities, Cleveland’s Rick Taft was honored with the Charlie Baker Award for outstanding contributions to the game of hardball singles.

The Hardball Singles were first held in 1907.

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The 112^th U.S. Squash Hardball Singles Championships is scheduled for the weekend of February 22-24 at the Harvard Club in New York City. Registration closes at noon EST on Tuesday, February 19. Players can sign up for the tournament

Draws are available for age groups and Open Men鈥檚 and Women鈥檚 divisions. Players entering the Open Division receive a complimentary entry by emailing tournaments@ussquash.com.

Prize money will be offered for the Men鈥檚 and Women鈥檚 Open divisions at the following levels:

Champion: $1000
Finalist: $500

Please consider joining as an event patron to support the overall Hardball Singles effort. Three levels are available: Silver ($250), Gold ($500), and Platinum ($1000).

For more information regarding the weekend鈥檚 events please refer to the or email US squash at tournaments@ussquash.com.

The thirty-ninth annual 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 tournament. In a Navy v. Rochester semi, Navy鈥檚 Jonathan Lentz & James Kjorlien survived two 15-14 games to get past Rochester鈥檚 Ashley Davies & Ricardo Lopez in three. In the other semi, top seeds Senen Ubina & Michael Kacergis also took a 15-14 game over Cornell鈥檚 Charles Culhane & Andrew Muran in their three-game sweep.

Last year Ubina and his then-partner outlasted Lentz & Kjorlien in a five-game barn-burner. Today they again went to five and again Ubina and Kacergis survived: 15-11, 15-13, 13-15, 14-15, 15-6.

It is an end of an era for the Ubinas. His older sister Maria Elena collected five intercollegiate titles while at Princeton (three women鈥檚 and two mixed) and now Senen bows out with three titles, making them the most successful intercollegiate doubles family in squash history. They pushed beyond the Deans (Alex and Jamie with five titles) and McGuinnesses (Trevor and Andrew, five) and the Franks (Garrett & Reade, four).

Report courtesy of Palmer Page.

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill hosted the first collegiate hardball tournament in twenty-five years, April 5-8.聽 41 players, including 30 college students, participated in the tournament. Multi-time Hardball Nationals Finalist Hamed Anvari flew south from the Northeast to help promote hardball.

鈥淭his is a great game,鈥� said Adam Merchant, the Division 1 number one seed from Davidson College. 鈥淭he shot-making is critical to winning and is so different [from a regular squash game].聽 Playing the angles is a lot of fun. I can see this really catching on.鈥�

The official tournament began Saturday, and began a series of tightly contested matches across five divisions plus an Open division:

Finals results:
Division 1: Palmer Page d. Christopher Gsell (Carolina Squash captain).
Division 2: Christopher Klipstein d. Gary Yeager
Division 3: Kit Tatum d. Paul Chan
Division 4: John McBride d. Rick Taft
Division 5: S. Bhaskar d. Hazim Mukhtar
Open: Hamed Anvari d. Christopher Gsell

Apart from the official matches, there were superlatives awarded. Georgia Tech, who drove from Atlanta after classes and arrived at midnight for the tournament, won 鈥淢ost Dedicated.鈥� Rod Smith, who won 鈥淕reatest Distance鈥�, came from San Diego and won third place in Division 2 after losing in the fifth game to Christopher Klipstein in the semis.

At the end of tournament, UNC-CH gave away hardballs to collegiate players from participating schools to grow interest at the collegiate level. 鈥淲hat a great weekend. We can’t wait to use the new hardballs in our new [20 ft] courts,鈥� said Oliver Wade from the College of Charleston

There were many outside-the-tournament activities planned throughout the weekend. On Friday, there was golf in the morning, a clinic conducted by Anvari in the afternoon, and a garden party held at the Page home in the evening. Former Chancellor of UNC-CH, James Moeser and his wife, Susan, welcomed all to the garden party as guests ate Time Out鈥檚 southern chicken for dinner. On Saturday, guests welcomed catering from Italian Pizzaria III for lunch at the courts and a buffet dinner at the Chapel Hill Country Club.

The success of the tournament led organizers to plan for it to be an annual occurrence. Following the event, there was discussion of expanding the concept to include team-based club college competition among southern schools in the fall, welcoming other schools from around the country as well.

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Thirty-three players competed across eight divisions, which included six age group division and two men’s and women’s Open divisions.

New York City’s Henry Steinglass won his third Hardball Singles national title in the 75+ division, defeating John McBride of Maryland in a four-game final.

Tefft Smith of Washington, DC, successfully defended his 70+ national title, prevailing over Charlie Kimball of New York City in a three-game final.

Paul Chan won a three-player 65+ round robin, losing to Steinglass in five games, but defeating Smith in five games. Smith defeated Steinglass in four games, with Chan winning one more total game than Steinglass and Smith across both matches.

Philadelphia’s Peter Stokes defeated Chan 15-10, 15-11, 15-11 in the 60+ match.

Five-time former national hardball singles champion Tom Harrity defeated Stokes and Steven Kupka in the 50+ round robin.

Former Navy player Sunil Desai topped the 40+ round robin, defeating Naj Alavi 3-0 and winning a close five-gamer against Willie Gaynor.

The ten-player Men’s Open division saw PSA and SDA professional Zac Alexander dominate the draw without dropping a game all tournament. Alexander defeated top seed Hamed Anvari in the final.

Philadelphia’s Kelsey Engman defeated Harvard graduate Charlene Neo 15-8, 8-15, 15-7, 15-9 in the women’s Open match.

Both Open division champions were awarded $1000 in prize money, and the finalists earned $500.

Richard Chin, the Harvard Club’s head professional, was awarded the Charlie Baker Trophy for his contributions to Hardball Singles.

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The 111th Hardball Singles Nationals will take place at the Harvard Club in New York City, February 23-25. In addition to age group divisions, Open men’s and women’s divisions will offer prize money for both the champions and second place. Sign up before the regular entry deadline on February 20 at 12pm, noon EST, on the .

The eighty-third National Doubles returns to Philadelphia for the first time since 2015, March 2-4, at the Cynwyd Club, Merion Cricket Club, Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia Cricket Club and Philadelphia Country Club. In addition to Open and age group divisions, men’s and women’s B and C divisions will also be hosted. Sign up before the regular entry deadline on February 21 at 12pm, noon EST, on the .

The National Singles–featuring the SL Green U.S. Men’s Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship–returns to the Philadelphia Cricket Club for the second year, March 7-10. For the first time, the men’s 40+ and 50+ and women’s 50+ divisions will offer B draws, perfect for players looking to participate at a lower skill level than the open age divisions. Sign up before the open age division regular entry deadline on February 28 at 12pm, noon EST, on the .

Forty-one teams representing eleven different nations are competing across professional men’s, women’s and mixed divisions.

Matches are streaming and scoring live, September 21-24, on .

In the men’s draw, England’s defending champions Clive Leach & John Russell return as the four seeds, with a predicted against top seeds and compatriots Michael Ferreira & Jonny Smith in the semifinals. Australia’s Matt Jenson & Scott Arnold oppose Ferreira & Smith in the draw as the two seeds with a predicted semifinal against Team USA’s three seeds Chris Callis & Greg Park.

England’s women’s defending champion Suzie Pierrepont returns with a new partner, Georgina Stoker, and slot into the draw as the two seeds. Stoker & Pierrepont are predicted to face compatriots Tina Rix & Victoria Simmonds in the semifinals.

Australian sisters Narelle Krizek & Natarsha McElhinny lead the draw as top seeds and are predicted to take on Canada’s four seeds Stephanie Hewitt & Seanna Keating in the semifinals.

McElhinny also enters the Mixed draw as the top seed with partner Arnold and are seeded to meet England’s Ferreira & Simmonds in the semis. Krizek opposes her sister in the draw with Jenson as the two seeds and a predicted semifinal against Canada’s four seeds Viktor Berg & Hewitt.

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