Squash Tournament Takes Grand Central

Tired of the increasingly dominant Roger Federer, the increasingly annoying Williams sisters, and the feeding frenzy to grab a spot to the US Open in Flushing? Better haul ass up to Grand Central for the last few days of championship squash. The Bear Stearns Tournament of Champions, now in its 10th year at Grand Central Terminal, features world-class squash players whacking a pea-sized hunk of rubber around a four-walled glass tank in the middle of Vanderbilt Hall in front of a crowd of literally dozens, not to be confused with the Puma Table Tennis Tournament (PT3), featuring creative-class players whacking a ping pong ball around a table in Chinatown. We’re rooting for 19-year-old phenom Ramy Ashour of Egypt, who goes up against defending champion Amr Shabana in tonight’s semifinal.
Tickets for both the men’s and women’s final are priced at $80 and up, but you can always do as we did, and stand gawking from the Grand Central entranceway.
Photo by Steve Line, Squash’s top photographer.


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