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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