A Retrospective Look At The 2024 Maryland Club Open
By Rob Dinerman On the first weekend of October 2024 the Maryland Club Open (MCO) returned to the Squash Doubles Association (SDA) schedule after a five-year hiatus due to the Covid pandemic that shut the SDA tour down for nearly two years, followed by Baltimore’s hosting of the 2023 Can-Am competition — and a memorable and triumphant return it was! This latter phenomenon is fully in keeping with an MCO tradition throughout its prior 16 editions of playing host to a major upset, an eleventh-hour comeback, an intriguing back-story or a landscape-changing result — sometimes (as in 2024) all four! For the first time in the history of this tournament — whose inaugural holding took place more than two decades earlier in October 2003 — there was a women’s pro event (possibly related to the club itself having gone co-ed in 2021, 167 years after its founding as a men’s-only club in 1857), as well […]