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The 2021 World Squash Championships are due to start in a matter of days and HEAD Squash global ambassador Laura Massaro has delivered a fascinating insight into the hopes and expectations of our players who will be going for glory in Chicago next week.

La esperada serie Gamma viene abanderada por los jugadores profesionales Arturo Coello y Edu Alonso. Versatilidad, innovación y diseño están más que asegurados en la pista. Bajo el claim: ‘Juega tu propio juego’, HEAD lanza una nueva versión de los conocidos modelos Graphene 360+ Gamma Pro y Graphene 360+ Gamma Motion, ahora provistos de la tecnología Graphene 360+. Con su inconfundible diseño geométrico y con esta nueva tecnología la serie HEAD Gamma es totalmente diferente.

In beautiful Toscolano Maderno, on the shores of Lake Garda, the long-awaited XTERRA Europe 2021 season of off-road triathlon began last weekend, and this year it is sponsored by Zoggs for the swimming leg!

The historic 19^th Grand Slam title for Novak Djokovic and Barbora Krejcikova’s singles-and-doubles double were just the headlines from the most successful Grand Slam tournament that Head has ever had.

Novak defeated first time major finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-7, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 to win the French Open for the second time and in doing so became the only man in the ‘open era’ of tennis, which dates back to 1968, to claim every one of the four majors: Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, multiple times.

Barbora Krejcikova is the Roland Garros women’s singles and doubles champion! It’s the first time since Mary Pierce in 2000 that a player won both titles in Paris. Krejcikova already knew what it was like to hold the doubles trophy (she did it in 2018). But as an unseeded player, getting her hands on the Trophée Suzanne Lenglen after her 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 win on the Philippe Chatrier Arena is the fulfilment of dream she never gave up on.

Former squash World Champion, World No.1 and Commonwealth Games double silver medallist Laura Massaro MBE is one of the most successful British sportswomen of her generation. Now Massaro is revealing the tears and turmoil behind the triumph in her deeply personal new autobiography All In, available in special edition hardback and paperback from Tuesday 1st June.

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ZAHED SALEM believes he is hitting his squash peak at exactly the right time as he bids to achieve his career goal of a place in the world’s top-5 squash rankings.

THE legendary Jansher Khan has revealed his delight at re-joining Team HEAD almost three decades    after he first signed on the dotted line to pioneer our ground-breaking Pyramid Power Series.

Perceived by many as the greatest squash player to have ever picked up a racket, Jansher’s 97-month reign as world No.1 between 1988 and 1998 is still the longest in the history of the men’s game.

Jansher was to go on to win the majority of his record-breaking eight

Russian tennis pro signs long-term contract with the Austrian tennis brand.

Olympic champion, triple World Champion, double overall World Cup winner - Anna Veith has achieved all of her great successes together with HEAD. Beyond the end of her racing career, the Austrian athlete will continue her long-standing partnership with the world's most successful ski brand at least until 2024 - as brand and sportswear ambassador, assisting in the development of new products as well as on projects with upcoming HEAD stars.

It does appear as some skiers have a special deal with the universe. A relation with gravity based on a different set of rules than the rest of us. Is this why Sam Kuch floated up to the freeriding stratosphere on a star-studded wagon? Or is he just a damn good skier. Maybe the best?

The Bec giveth and the Bec taketh away. Never has an overall 2^nd place in the Freeride World Tour been so bittersweet as for the Norwegian Olympic mogul skier gone freeride queen, Hedvig Wessel. And few bronze medals so unanticipated and celebrated as Carl Regnér’s third spot in the overall ski men rankings. Snowboarder Cody Bramwell was also seemingly pleased with his trophy for the 3^rd place in the overall snowboard category. But let’s take it back for a moment and set the scene.

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, people would talk at your tennis club if anyone had a forgiving racquet with a big sweetspot, saying they must be less of a player. What would a decent tennis player want with so much margin for error? 

The finals in Lenzerheide saw one of the most successful seasons in HEAD's history draw to a close. With seven World Championship Gold medals, one overall World Cup Crystal Globe and four World Cup discipline Crystal Globes, as well as 19 World Cup victories, the HEAD World Cup Rebels delivered a unique class of performance. As confirmed by the FIS brand ranking - they are the best ski team in the world.

Alexis Pinturault gave himself two very special presents for his 30th birthday on Saturday. Following his victory in the final Giant Slalom in Lenzerheide, the HEAD World Cup Rebel secured not only the World Cup in this discipline, but also the Crystal Globe as the overall winner of the World Cup for the first time in his career.

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All the speed events - both the Downhill competitions on Wednesday and the Super-G races on Thursday - had to be cancelled at the final of the World Cup in Lenzerheide due to the weather conditions. This means that in the speed disciplines, not only all four World Championship titles go to the HEAD World Cup Rebels, but also three of the four World Cup Crystal Globes: Beat Feuz (Downhill), Lara Gut-Behrami (Super-G) and Vincent Kriechmayr (Super-G).

PAUL COLL has pronounced himself in the “best shape” of his career. Speaking in an exclusive interview with HEADSQUASH, as he counts down to his first-round match in the 2021 CIB Black Ball Open, ‘Superman’ reckons he is ready to get the second-half of the season off to a flying start on Sunday.

One week after her third place in the Slalom in Jasna, Wendy Holdener again made the podium in the second Slalom event in Aare on Saturday. The Swiss athlete finished in third place to celebrate her 27th podium finish in this discipline.

Now in an easy guide to the squash shoe, HEADSQUASH provides a breakdown of the essentials when it comes to buying the squash shoe that will provide the best fit for you.

On the eve of the PSA World Tour’s return, HEADSQUASH caught up with New Zealand’s World No.8 Joelle King to check out how her preparations for the second-half of what has been the most daunting season in the history of the professional game have gone.

Sanyo’s new SPRINT PRO 3.0 reach new levels of lightness, performance and comfort, which makes them the ideal shoes for players who want to be faster on the court.

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