A club player trying to fix a wobbly backhand, a fan hunting for who is broadcasting the next big tournament, a parent wanting to find a court within driving distance: these are the kinds of small, practical questions that pull people toward squash coverage online, and Squash Player Magazine was built to answer most of them in one place. The publication has run since 1971, which makes it one of the longest-lived voices in the sport, and the site at squashplayer.co.uk pulled that history into a single hub aimed at players, coaches and followers of the professional game.
Content across skill levels
The breadth of what sat here is the headline. Coaching columns and fitness advice for people working on their own game. Rules explanations for anyone confused about a let or a stroke. World rankings and player profiles for the followers who track the tour. Tournament calendars, match results and TV schedules so a viewer knows when and where to watch. There were equipment and gear reviews, feature interviews with professionals, competitions, a newsletter, and a UK squash club directory that helped people locate somewhere to actually play. A long list of squash-related web links rounded it out.
Coaching, rankings, tournaments, club finder
What makes that range credible is its spread across skill levels. A beginner could read a rules piece and find a local club; a serious competitor could study rankings and read a coaching breakdown; a spectator could just check the calendar and the broadcast times. The content was organized around real uses, not around filling space, and the long run of back issues in both print and digital form gives the archive genuine depth that a newer site cannot match.
Professional circuit meets grassroots tools
The self-description, bringing "the game of squash alive at all levels," reads as more than a tagline once you see how the sections map onto it. Coverage of the professional circuit sits beside grassroots tools like the club finder. That dual focus is harder to sustain than it sounds, and Squash Player Magazine kept both alive over decades of continuous publication. Squash Player Magazine occupies a gap that the mainstream sports press does not bother to fill: one outlet carrying rankings, results, coaching and club listings across five decades.
Current site location
There is an important caveat for anyone visiting today. The squashplayer.co.uk address is now largely an archive, and active operations have shifted to squashplayer.com and squashplayermag.com. The old domain points visitors toward the updated platform, so the material here still has worth as a record, but the current, maintained version of Squash Player Magazine lives elsewhere. A reader who arrives at the legacy URL looking for today's content will find Squash Player Magazine waiting at the newer addresses. A reader who lands on the legacy site should expect to be nudged onward to find the live content.
Long-term readers show credibility
On standing, the picture is modest but real. No Google, Trustpilot, Yelp or comparable platform ratings turned up in searching, so there is no star count to point to. What does exist is telling in its own way. A subscriber testimonial on the Squash Player Magazine site notes almost forty years of continuous subscription, the sort of loyalty that says more than a star rating ever could. A thread on the r/squash community references the magazine in positive terms, and Feedspot includes it among the top squash magazines globally. None of that is a flood of feedback, but for a specialist title serving a small sport, the longevity and the long-tenured readers tell a consistent story.
Contact details require navigation
Contact is the weaker spot. The landing page carries no phone number, postal address or email, and the details live under an "About SP" section that a visitor has to navigate to find. That is workable, since the route exists, but a publication of this vintage could surface a phone or address more plainly without making people dig. A social presence across Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr offers another way to reach the team, which softens the issue.
Weighed against a generalist option like the PSA Squash Tour's own website, the trade-off comes into focus. The PSA site is the authoritative source for live pro results, rankings and event streaming, and it does that one job extremely well. Squash Player Magazine covers a wider slice of the sport: the coaching, the gear reviews, the club directory and the editorial features that a results portal does not touch. A reader who only wants tour scores will be served faster by the PSA. Someone who wants the whole sport, from a first lesson to the pro game, gets more here, with the standing caveat that the maintained edition now sits at the newer domains and the .co.uk site is best treated as a well-stocked archive.
