7 Greatest Squash Players Of All Time

 Intern: Prashant Sharma

Today we take a look at some of the best individuals who took part in the game of squash and ruled it from the word go. These individuals have contributed massively towards the development, betterment and popularization of the game.

Let’s take a look at these legends in the world of squash

1) CHRIS DITMAR 

Chris Ditmar is an Australian sports commentator and was born on January 16, 1964 in Adelaide, South Australia. He is regarded as the one of best player to have never won the best two titles of squash, remaining a runner up in both of them. He finished as runner-up in World open 5 times (1983, 87, 89, 90 and 1992) and was a runner-up in British Open in 1985 and 1993. Ditmar was unlucky to play squash during the era as the two Pakistani squash legends Jahangir and Jansher. Both of these players bettered him in all of the occasions.

2) DAVID PALMER 

David Palmer is a professional Australian squash player born on 28 June 1976 in Lithgow, New South Wales. He won World Open championship in 2002 and 2006, the British Open title 4 times in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2008. He attained world no 1 ranking two times in his career in the year 2001 and 2006.

3) NICK MATTHEW

Nicholas Mathew is the professional squash player from England. He was born on July 25, 1980 and holds his place in the top ten squash players of all time. He holds the record to win both British Open and World Open three times in his career. In June 2010 he was regarded as the no 1 ranked player that too when another great player Ramy Ashour was at his peak.

4) PETER NICOLE

Peter Nicole is a Scottish player born on 5th April 1973. He is one of the top ten squash players of all times. He is known for his agility during the gameplay. He became the first player to hold the world no 1 ranking from UK. During his career he won two British titles, one world open title and 4 Common wealth Games Gold Medal. He is considered as one of the best squash player.

5)  RAMY ASHOUR

Ramy Mohammad Ashour was born on 30 September 1987 in Cairo Egypt. He became the world no 1 in rankings in 2010 after beating Nick Mathew in Saudi international squash tournament in 2009. At the age of 22 he became the youngest player to be ranked as world no. 1 since the year 1980. He was also the first to become two times world squash junior champion. He won many titles in his career including the World Open title.

6) JANSHER KHAN

Jansher khan was born on June 15, 1969 in Peshawar Pakistan and is a Former World no. 1 professional squash player from the Indian sub-continent. During his career he won the World open for a whopping 8 times and this record is yet to be broken.

He also won the British Championship for a record 6 times. In the year 2001 Jansher announced his retirement from the world squash. In his entire career he won a total of 99 titles and remained unbeaten and unchallenged as the world no.1 for ten years.

7)JAHANGIR KHAN

He is probably the same to the squash world as Sachin is to the cricket world. Jahangir khan was born on December 10, 1963 in Karachi Pakistan and is a renowned former World no 1 Squash player. Many sports writer say that. Jahangir is the best ever player to play squash and no one can match his greatness. During his career he won the world open for a record six times and British Open for record ten times .He remained unbeaten for more than five years from 1981 to 1986. He won 555 matches consecutively which is Guinness world record as the longest winning streak for any athlete. He retired from squash in 1993 and then served the squash federation as a president from 2002 to 2008.

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