听Renowned Furniture Maker To Provide Handcrafted Trophies and Bring American Craftsmanship to the Tournament

Philadelphia, PA (October 2025) – 黑料不打烊 announced today that Thos. Moser has joined as a silver sponsor of the 2025 Comcast Business U.S. Open Squash Championships. The renowned furniture maker will provide handcrafted trophies for the men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 champions of the Open.

鈥淲e are proud to be partners with such a distinguished company,鈥� said Kevin Klipstein, 黑料不打烊 President & CEO. 鈥淭hos. Moser鈥檚 vision, work ethic, and masterful craftsmanship reflect the values we celebrate in our sport. These trophies are fitting awards for a truly special tournament, and we look forward to seeing them presented after an outstanding week of competition.鈥�

Based in Maine, Thos. Moser has crafted distinctive heirloom pieces for patrons, presidents, and popes. The company emphasizes careful material selection and individual craftsmanship; its operation has grown from Thomas Moser and his wife, to sixty craftspeople working out of a 90,000-square-foot workshop in Auburn, Maine.

鈥淓very Thos. Moser piece is made by hand with unmatched attention to detail,鈥� said Philip Hussey, CEO of Thos. Moser. 鈥淎t Thos. Moser, we believe in the enduring power of craftsmanship and the pursuit of excellence, values that deeply align with the sport of squash. We鈥檙e proud to support the U.S. Open and the incredible athletes who embody dedication, precision, and integrity in their work. Partnering with 黑料不打烊 allows us to celebrate those shared ideals and continue our commitment to American craft, performance, and community.鈥�

The trophy ceremony will take place on Saturday, October 25, the final day of the 2025 Comcast Business U.S. Open Squash Championships. The tournament runs October 19-25 at the Arlen Specter 黑料不打烊 Center and will be livestreamed via Squash TV, with semi-finals and finals airing on Peacock for the first time.

Thos. Moser will also contribute 10% of all purchases made with the promo code 鈥渟quash鈥� through November, 30, 2025, directly supporting 黑料不打烊鈥檚 mission to grow and strengthen the sport nationwide. 黑料不打烊 will receive 10% of any purchase made with the code, whether placed online at , in person, or by phone.

The partnership between 黑料不打烊 and Thos. Moser was facilitated by Octagon鈥檚 Olympics Division as part of its effort to support the growth of sport in the lead-up to the LA28 Olympic Games.

Octagon Managing Director of Olympics Peter Carlisle said, 鈥淧reparing for the world stage is itself a craft: the relentless work athletes put in every day mirrors Thos. Moser鈥檚 attention to detail and exacting craftsmanship. Celebrating that shared belief in excellence at the premier U.S. tournament highlights the unique qualities of squash.鈥�

黑料不打烊 黑料不打烊:

黑料不打烊 is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and the only national governing body for the sport in the United States. Founded in 1904 and headquartered at the Arlen Specter 黑料不打烊 Center on the campus of Drexel University in Philadelphia, 黑料不打烊 oversees the growth and success of the sport at all levels of the sport, from grassroots community development to the U.S. National Team competing on the world stage. For more information, please visit .

黑料不打烊 Thos. Moser:

For more than 50 years, Thos. Moser has been guided by their mission to establish a community that would allow craftsmen to make a living doing the work they love. Today that community comprises some 70 fine craftsmen and women who are designers and makers of functionally driven, handmade furniture of the highest quality in both materials and woodworking expertise. Each Thos. Moser piece reveals not only how it was created, but also why it will last a lifetime, and in testament to its quality, each bears the signature of its maker. Thos. Moser operates four retail showrooms located in Freeport, Maine, Boston, Washington, DC, and San Francisco.

黑料不打烊 Octagon:

Octagon is a global leader in talent management and marketing across the international sports and entertainment industry. The agency represents more than 900 of the most prominent athletes, personalities, and properties, and works with many of the world鈥檚 largest brands and Fortune 500 companies. Octagon鈥檚 Olympic Division is a full-service marketing representation group whose accomplished clientele spans summer and winter sports. For more information, please visit .

MSquash professional Katline Cauwels was recognized as the 黑料不打烊 nominee for the 2024 USOPC Coach of the Year Award during a special presentation at the Comcast Business U.S. Open Squash Championships Saturday, October 19.

Since 1998, the USOPC National Coach of the Year nominee has honored the best coaches at the highest levels of the game.

Cauwels, a junior national champion in her native Belgium and former world No. 40 professionally, moved to the US in 2014 with her husband Shaun Moxham and children, Maddox and Savannah. Shortly after moving to the U.S. Cauwels and Moxham opened their first High Performance Academy MSquash in Port Chester, New York in 2018. Cauwels and Moxham developed MSquash into one of the leading squash programs in the country, producing numerous national champions and nationally-ranked players. Building on the program鈥檚 success, MSquash opened a second campus in South Norwalk, Connecticut in 2021.

“It’s special to receive this award,” Cauwels said. “It’s obviously for me my name is on there, but no athlete at MSquash has been coached by one coach, but rather ten coaches and a full team behind everyone. There are physical therapists and strength and conditioning coaches and eight squash coaches. This is not an award just for me, it’s for the entire MSquash team.”

Latasha Khan and Julian Illingworth will be inducted into the United States Squash Hall of Fame on Saturday, October 26, 2024. The ceremony will occur at a special luncheon preceding the finals of the 2024 U.S. Open at the Peggy & Leo Pierce U.S. Squash Hall of Fame at the Arlen Specter 黑料不打烊 Center in Philadelphia.

Hall of Fame Induction ceremony . Join us for an unforgettable afternoon at the 2024 U.S. Squash Hall of Fame Induction & Luncheon, where we will honor Latasha Khan and Julian Illingworth and their remarkable contributions to our sport. Special packages offer tickets to the U.S. Open finals later that evening following the luncheon.

Reflecting the emerging geographic diversity of American squash, there will be a distinctive Pacific Northwest tone to the 2024 inductions. Both grew up outside the old heart of the game in the East Coast; Khan is from Seattle and Illingworth is from Portland.

The two sit at the very top of the American squash record books. Khan won the National Singles seven times, tied for second all-time; Illingworth won nine National Singles titles, tied with Demer Holleran for the most all-time. Khan reached world No. 18; Illingworth topped out at world No. 24. Khan captured ten professional titles; Illingworth twelve.

The U.S. Skill Level Championships will be held alongside finals weekend of the 2024 U.S. Open, October 26-27, at the Arlen Specter 黑料不打烊 Center and Penn Squash Center in Philadelphia.

The Skill Level Championships offer draws ranging from 2.5 up to 6.5. All draws will be capped at sixteen players and entries will be accepted on a first-come first-serve basis.

All players participating in the U.S. Skill Level Championships will be eligible for a 50% discount听on general admission tickets for matches on Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26–semifinal and final matches of the U.S. Open.

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黑料不打烊, the national governing body for the sport of squash in the United States, has announced Endurance Flooring, an industry-leading commercial flooring supplier, as its Official Flooring Supplier.

Endurance Flooring recently installed thirteen new singles court floors at the Arlen Specter 黑料不打烊 Center in Philadelphia鈥攑roviding best-in-class court performance for Team USA Squash, the U.S. Championships series and the world鈥檚 largest community squash center.

Since 2014, Endurance Flooring has provided superior-quality customized athletic and performing arts flooring solutions at competitive costs throughout New York City, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Endurance Flooring鈥檚 customer base includes public and private academic institutions, general contractors, architects, and designers.

Endurance Flooring will extend its support as Gold Level sponsors of the 2024, 2025 and 2026 U.S. Open Squash Championships.

鈥淓ndurance is proud to carry the distinction as the Official Flooring Supplier for 黑料不打烊,鈥� said Michael Mangan, owner and president of Endurance Flooring. 鈥淓ndurance has used the best science available from the world鈥檚 leading athletic flooring manufacturer to create a flooring system specifically intended for squash. In addition to being the best floor available for the players, which reduces injury and fatigue, the floor will last longer for the facility and reduce the life-cycle cost of flooring overall. Endurance has worked with dozens of satisfied squash customers and can produce customized solutions for all your flooring and squash court needs, whether for a new or existing court.鈥�

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The U.S. Skill Level Championships will be held alongside finals weekend of the 2023 U.S. Open presented by Truist, October 14-15, at the Arlen Specter 黑料不打烊 Center in Philadelphia.

The Skill Level Championships offer draws ranging from 2.5 up to 6.5. All draws will be capped at sixteen players and entries will be accepted on a first-come first-serve basis.

All players participating in the US Skill Level Championships will be eligible for a 50% discount听on general admission tickets for matches on Friday October 13 and Saturday October 14–semifinal and final matches of the U.S. Open.

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Construction on the Arlen Specter 黑料不打烊 Center remains on track for completion in December of 2020. The Specter Center, located on the campus of Drexel University in the heart of Philadelphia鈥檚 University City, will be the first permanent home for 黑料不打烊 and will bring together the entire squash community鈥攆rom Team USA athletes to current amateur players, participants in U.S. national championships, and to the thousands of members of the surrounding community who will be introduced to and welcomed into the sport. Development of the Specter Center project has been carried out in close partnership with Drexel University, including their outstanding Division I Athletic Department.

The construction site, located in the Amory building directly across 33^rdSt from the Drexel Daskalakis Athletic Center (where the U.S. Open Squash Championships have been held since 2011), was shut in March and April due to the pandemic, but reopened in May with enhanced safety protocols for all contractors and workers. All partners on the project are prioritizing the maintenance of a safe worksite throughout the remainder of the project.

The Specter Center will feature eighteen singles courts鈥攊ncluding two all-glass exhibition courts鈥攁nd two doubles courts, serve as 黑料不打烊鈥檚 national headquarters, house the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame and a Learning & Innovation Center, and offer athletes state-of-the-art high-performance development resources including a Coaching Excellence Center.

Once open, the Specter Center will be the flagship for 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Community Affiliate Program. Community Affiliates increase access by integrating junior, adult, scholastic, and squash and education initiatives in an innovative and sustainable way. The Specter Center will embrace this concept fully and places 黑料不打烊 within a neighborhood where the entire community of all races, religions, backgrounds can come together under one roof to learn from each other.

Community accessibility will manifest in many different ways, including an expansion of the Drexel partnership to leverage its Office of University & Community Partnerships. Proactive outreach will offer free programming for residents of the surrounding neighborhoods and local civic groups, and scholastic programs for local elementary, middle and high schools will take place with introductory programs, clubs and team play. SquashSmarts, the award-winning Philadelphia-based squash and education program, will be a key partner of the Specter Center through expansion of their core programming into the Learning & Innovation Center and workforce development initiatives to train a generation of young people for careers in youth development, education and squash.

鈥淚鈥檓 energized by seeing the progress being made on site at the Specter Center鈥�, said Ned Edwards, Specter Center Executive Director. 鈥淎fter years of planning, the last few months have finally brought the project into focus as we see walls going up and materials for the courts arriving on site. We can鈥檛 wait to open the doors and show the community what a special and inclusive space we鈥檝e built for the sport.鈥�

A time-lapse video of the construction site since its resumption in July .

黑料不打烊 has announced that the 2020 U.S. Open Squash Championships, scheduled for November 14-21 in Philadelphia, has been cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

黑料不打烊 made the decision prioritizing the safety of athletes, fans, staff and partners and in consideration of current local, state, and federal guidelines.

The U.S. Open, a PSA World Tour Platinum event, will celebrate its tenth staging in Philadelphia in partnership with Drexel University at the state-of-the-art Arlen Specter 黑料不打烊 Center in 2021, set to be completed by December 2020. Located across 33rd street from Drexel鈥檚 Daskalakis Athletic Center, where the event has been held for the past nine years, the Specter Center will showcase the world鈥檚 best squash players at the 2021 U.S. Open on eighteen singles courts 鈥� including two all-glass show courts.

鈥淐ancelling our flagship event is of course deeply disappointing, however the pandemic has left nothing unscathed in the world of sports and live entertainment, and it is clear that running a major international competition this fall is not prudent or possible,鈥� said Kevin Klipstein, President & CEO of 黑料不打烊. 鈥淲e are already making plans to welcome the squash community and the world鈥檚 best athletes for the 2021 U.S. Open at the Specter Center, and we can鈥檛 wait to showcase this amazing facility.鈥�

鈥淪ince 2011, 黑料不打烊鈥檚 partnership with Drexel has brought international attention to Philadelphia and made the U.S. Open one of the world鈥檚 premiere squash events,鈥� said John Fry, President of Drexel University. 鈥淲e look forward to celebrating the 10th edition of our partnership on the championship in 2021 in the U.S. Open鈥檚 new home at the Specter Center in the heart of Drexel鈥檚 campus.鈥�

Twenty-two-year-old Nouran Gohar fought off a championship ball in the third game to comeback and claim her first FS Investments U.S. Open title in a monumental five-game comeback, while world No. 1 Ali Farag dethroned Mohamed ElShorbagy in three games lift his second trophy at Drexel University鈥檚 Daskalaskis Athletic Center Saturday, October 12, in Philadelphia.

One of the greatest women鈥檚 finals in U.S. Open history graced the ASB GlassCourt in front of a vocal capacity crowd. The match appeared to be going in only one direction after the first two games with El Tayeb in fine form, firing off winners and nicks at will to take the opening two games 11-3, 11-8.

Gohar regained her composure in the third, imposing her powerful game to earn an early lead 4-1 and remaining level with El Tayeb at 9-all. Gohar earned her first game ball at 10-9, but an El Tayeb responded with two winners of her own to hold a championship ball at 11-10, which Gohar fended off. Pivotal extra-time rallies ensued going both ways until Gohar converted her third game ball at 14-12.

In the fourth, El Tayeb sped to a 5-1 lead, appearing to have regained her devastating form, but Gohar once again staged a comeback to pull away from 8-all and force a fifth 11-8. The decisive fifth remained close until 7-all at which point Gohar forced two strokes and two errors to clinch the match 11-7, bringing the crowd to their feet.

鈥淚 was trying to impose my game, but Nour was playing better in the beginning,鈥� Gohar said. 鈥淪he studied my game plan really well and she caught me off guard in the China Open as well and she was keeping the same style. I was really nervous, and I thought 鈥榡ust fight, you didn鈥檛 work that hard to just let it go鈥�, so for each point I was just telling myself to fight. I tried to adapt, I knew that my plan wasn鈥檛 working and I thought when the opportunity came to just take a risk and see how it goes.鈥�

At twenty-two years old, Gohar is the youngest male or female player to engrave their name on the U.S. Open trophy. The Cairo native will reclaim her career high ranking of world No. 2 next month as a result. The U.S. Open is Gohar鈥檚 third PSA Platinum title, adding to the 2019 British Open and 2016 Hong Kong Open. Gohar is the third straight Egyptian women鈥檚 champion following El Tayeb in 2017 and Raneem El Welily in 2018.

鈥淚 can鈥檛 believe it,鈥� Gohar said. 鈥淚t was so tough out there, I felt my legs burning and like I was doing court sprints with Nour out there in the first two games. I just tried to hang in there and I didn鈥檛 want the crowd to be upset about a bad final match. I was thinking 鈥榯hat鈥檚 the worst final ever鈥�, but it turns out and I hope it was a good one. The crowd was amazing and the best ever, I think even better than an Egyptian crowd. It鈥檚 really nice for us to have such a good crowd and it cheers you on when you are down.鈥�

Similar to the 2017 finals, Farag watched El Tayeb contest the women鈥檚 final before his own, but unlike two years ago the match ended in visible frustration for the married couple. Despite the negative result, Farag was able to regain his focus to take on ElShorbagy, the defending champion and world No. 2.

The two players put on a clinic for the crowd in the opening rallies, some of which exceeded 100 strokes a rally. The Harvard graduate began to force errors from ElShorbagy to pull away and take the first 11-4. ElShorbagy remained within reach throughout the second, but Farag rattled off three straight points from 8-7 to take the second. The third was one sided as Farag emphatically raced away with the title 11-2 after forty minutes.

鈥淭o be winning not only a major, but the U.S. Open which is one of the most prestigious tournaments we have on the calendar, it feels amazing,鈥� Farag said. 鈥淥bviously I鈥檓 very proud with how I played as well, Mohamed has had an unbelievable start to the season, to be unbeaten in twelve matches in a row, and I was one of the victims, to get the win today feels amazing. I鈥檝e said before that I鈥檓 at my most comfortable when Mike [Way] is around, we set a game plan and I鈥檓 glad I stuck with it.鈥�

Farag鈥檚 second U.S. Open title is his fifth career PSA Platinum title and third of 2019. Farag, the reigning world champion, has held the world No. 1 ranking since March and further cements his position atop the rankings.

The 2019 U.S. Open enjoyed its second year of title sponsor from FS Investments and ninth staging of the tournament at Drexel University.

The eighteenth-annual World Squash Day was celebrated at the 2019 FS Investments U.S. Open Squash Championships.

The finals of the men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 draws at the U.S. Open and the United Squash Hall of Fame luncheon and induction ceremony were the centerpieces of an exciting day at Drexel鈥檚 Daskalaskis Athletic Center. Egypt’s Nouran Gohar and Ali Farag won the Open. Two women鈥擥inny Akabane and Bunny Vosters鈥攚ere inducted in the first all-female induction class into the Hall of Fame.

This year鈥檚 theme for World Squash Day was The Big Hit. America was in the vanguard of The Big Hit. Downstairs on the Kline & Specter Courts the 2018 U.S. Skills Levels Championship was in full swing. On World Squash Day, exactly 120 matches were played at Drexel. The 2019 Skill Levels featured 116 players competed in eleven divisions ranging from 3.0 to 6.0. 黑料不打烊 introduced the ratings system in the mid-1990s and has hosted the championship since 1996. Thus, thousands of people had the chance to play squash, reunion with friends and family courtside and watch world-class squash at Drexel.

World Squash Day was on the forefront around the U.S. Six hundred and seventy-six official tournament matches were played across the country, showing the depth and breadth of the game today. It was a busy day for young players. There were seven junior tournaments: a bronze in Philadelphia; a bronze in San Francisco; a bronze in New York; a silver in Connecticut; a silver in New Jersey; and a gold in Baltimore. In total, 487 kids played a Club Locker-recorded match on World Squash Day.

Besides the U.S. Open, the other professional tournament on the American docket was across the continent in Los Angeles: the NBCC LA Open. The semifinals of the Women鈥檚 Squash Doubles Association event were held at the Jonathan Club at the same time as the U.S. Open finals. The two matches featured players from Canada, England, Ireland and the U.S. A major stop on the WSDA tour, the NBCC LA Open was sponsored by the National Breast Cancer Coalition.

World Squash Day was originally launched in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in the U.S. Derek Sword, an avid twenty-nine year-old squash player from Scotland, worked as an equity sales analyst on the 89th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center. He played three times a week at the New York Athletic Club and had just gotten engaged ten days before the attacks. To honor Sword, a group of New York and British friends hosted a memorial match in London in January 2002 which led to the creation of World Squash Day.

Each year since 2002, events have taken place across the globe on World Squash Day鈥攅xhibitions, clinics, publicity stunts, tournaments鈥攖hat expose the game to many new people and sustain and deepen a love of the game for those already involved.