Squash: Full Match - Canary Wharf 2010 SF - Matthew v Willstrop 

This is one of my favorite videos on squash. More tension than the average blockbuster.

This is still one of the best squash matches that ever took place. The pace, accuracy, tactical play, add all the drama on top and this was simply phenomenal squash.

This was a hardcore semifinal match ever played. Thank you PSA for the release of the full match.

I don't understand why this match been watched 20,000 times LESS then the other two… this is the best squash on youtube!!

thank PSA TV for all the full matches on youtube! finally able to watch all of these again!

I think this classic match will remain up there with the best to the end of the decade. Great that it was commentated on by the Barrington's!

Great upload. As someone who has only been following pro squash for a few years it’s great to see back when Matthew and Willstrop were still in their prime. The quality of play is amazing.I have to say though, the advances in refereeing this decade have really improved the viewer experience immeasurably. This old style of being forced to sit on the fence, and let/stroke fishing by Matthew especially, takes away massively from the quality of squash on display.

This is an absolutely brilliant match. Best match to watch for great tactical and technical squash. In my opinion, the best game in the last 5 or so years.

Simply an incredible match............both of them were just amazing and at the top of their game.

Used it for video training, helped a lot! Thanks PSA!

This was probably best match ever played by Willstrop. And Nick was as resilient as ever!!!

Epic squash! Both players raised the bar with this match. Incredible that Nick played so well in the final after this brutal match.

thanks for the full matches, I really can appreciate it.

Marvellous absolutely olympical thanks psa and the players cheers from Luxembourg 🇱🇺

finally get to see this epic match in full well done psa

18-20 ..wow ...james n nick played amazing squash ..!!!!!!..

thank you for all those full matches, really nice from you!

Absolutely phenomenal match. These are an inspiration

Love that you guys have done this. Been asking for this. This will really really go on to promote squash. Great choice of matches as well!

Willstrop wins beatifully constructed rally - Matthew gets a let on some bull**** technicality. Wash, rinse, repeat, until Willstrop makes a mistake and gets a stroke against him. Great squash overall, but refs need to be willing to call the No Let once in awhile to keep players honest

Thank you soo much PSA

Thankyou so much!! People keep saying this was one of the best matches they ever played.... THANKS :D

thanks psa! awesome choice of matches

I met nick Matthew and got his signature. My brother is 2nd for u11 squash

this is amazing! thank you psasquashtv

its nice to see this match I like to play more squash

This was such a fast paced and truly gripping match!

Unbelievable game of squash. IMHO, one of the best squash matches of the last two decades -- the other two being Nicol v Power 2003 super series finals, and of course, Ashour v Shorbagy 2014 World Championships. I rate this a cut above the other two purely because of the attritional nature and the strategic and mental aspects on test right through out the match. Also a clash between the two quintessentially British schools of squash was on display. The match marks the end of an era, in that the nature of the game changed quite a bit in the last decade. This is in some sense the last of the classic Anglo-Saxon style of squash matches. That said, if only Willstrop had taken the third at 10-7 instead of extending the game by a further 15 mins. That hurt him in the end.

Disgraceful refereeing.

Thank you psa I love psa

these guys are all heart

Thank PSA TV.

Thanks

Thanks psa

the best squash ever!

Thank you thank you so much!!!!

fantastic squash!

A two hour reading of Squash’s text book.

that's what you call a TKO. What a match.

Like 14 gameballs in the 3rd but 28 heart attacks for me so intertaining

Thanks for posting this great vid, great game! :)

What a match!

Thanks psa more full games pleeeeeeeeeeeease

thanks psa!

thanks :)

Whilst the squash may have been indistinguishable, there’s definitely a difference in class between these two.

Proper tin sound, especially off the boast..bah-dum TING!

6:42 impressive floor light effects! i can't imagine how the players didnt complain though.

Who watched this last out of the three full matches because it had Nick Matthew...

The ref calls at the end of the third are a joke. How can Nick get away with so many lets when he's taking the wrong line. Video ref and review has improved the game massively.

Check out the rally at 1:00 .....Amazing ..!!!!!

Nick may be an excellent player with a brilliant aggressive game but without him getting cheap lets and cheap strokes (sometimes fishing for them) when he can play the ball, he wouldn't have won that much all the time and sometimes he probably would have lost. Nick Matthew - a prolific fisher of cheap strokes and lets.

Gladiators!

what grip is nick Matthew using I have the same racket as him

what dunlop model racket is Nick Mathews using?

Anyone have any idea of what grips these guys use for their rackets? I see so many of them with those yellow grips and i was wondering what they're called, cheers! :)

THIS WAS WILLSTROPS MATCH. He should have won... But matthews played really well. At 6-3 in the fourth game when he hit the tin... And in the third game when nick kept on getting strokes..

That's the most biased referee I've seen in squash... Just wow.

Actually feel the ref was very pro Matthew in the final game. Lot of soft lets given in one direction and some harsh no-lets given in the other.

20-18 😳😳 …Mat made Will play an complete extra game from 10-8…

6:52 didnt Matthew hold the ball on his racket?

Did Nick win the final?

Even if it may have been a great match, I cannot watch Nick Matthew, especially when he wins. Always rooting for him to lose lol.

8:40 I dont know how that was a let, except if the ball was too close to Willstrop xD

Why is the beginning of this video so damn scary?

Fantastic match but should Nick really have got a let every time the ball was past him...?

This was like the fifth time ive watched this match. And every time i got angry with that awful refree and his cheap decisions

Most probably karakal pu super grip :)

Is the 2nd comentator Stephen Hawking?

that's what she said.

Hello people! I personally know James in real life. I know a lot about him cause he is my mums cousin. If you have any questions about him then ask me! And no, I'm not lying.

The No Let at 7 all in the 5th was not good at all from the referee, I think he went to sleep.

이당시 레프리보면 속터진다..

min 26

Nick Matthew went for the softest lets and got them

I like the new nick better than this nick

Why aren't they wearing goggles?

Some of the worse refereeing I've ever seen unfortunately! But a cracking match never the less

I'd rate Matthew as a good player, if it wasn't for all his cheating e.g. he calls a ball out and gets a let, then he says James' ball is down on the front right and gets a let. Appalling cheating and dreadful refereeing. No wonder people are confused by squash.

Squash oustanding. The video however was let down by the commentary which was characterised by the most crass, pompous, self-indulgent drivel. Far better to have just the squash and scoring.

James Wilstrop is so entertaining to watch!

everyone knows of not for the soft lets this was Wilstrops match

Nick Matthew is a phenomenal athlete, an incredible talented man with a racket but I WISH he wouldn't moan quite as much.

How different the reffing is in 2021. So many no lets and strokes would have been called in this match. Also no review or video replay...... Would have been a completely different game! Imagine Asal playing in this match in 2010.

Thank you for the full match PSA, it was absolutely fabulous to see it...

Hmm according to 2:41 he turned pro 1998. But he was born 1993 to be 29 now, so he was 6 yo when he turned pro?!

this is beyond awesome, thanks PSA! :)

They should have released all these free in the years leading up to the failed olympic bid! too little too late

Love that you guys have done this. Been asking for this. This will really really go on to promote squash. Great choice of matches as well!

full matches very much appreciated indeed