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Raj Manchanda (5 August 1945 – 1 December 2024) was an Indian squash player. [1] He won six straight National Squash Championships from 1977 to 1982. [2] Also a member of the Arjuna Award, he received the Arjuna Award in 1980. [3] In 1981, he received the Best Services Sportsman Award. [4]
McKay moved to Toronto in 1975 and competed in the US squash championship in 1977, which she won. In 1979, she competed again in the World Open Squash, this time officially undisputed, and won it again. [4] At the age of 38 McKay retired from squash. McKay wrote a book, Heather McKay's Complete Book of Squash, which was
Yoasobi released their first two extended plays in 2021—The Book and The Book 2—with the concept of a "reading CD" with a binder package. [1] [2] The EPs peaked at number two on the Oricon Albums Chart, [3] [4] In 2021, the duo collaborated with Naoki Prize-winning four novelists Rio Shimamoto, Mizuki Tsujimura, Miyuki Miyabe, and Eto Mori for the short story collection Hajimete no ...
Jansher Khan (Pashto:جان شیر خان; born 15 June 1969) [5] [6] [7] is a Pakistani former professional squash player. Khan won numerous championships and awards during his career, and he held the rank of number 1 in the world for over a decade.
He has written for national magazines and newspapers, as well as for publications in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He has written for The Daily Beast [1] and for a time had a weekly blog on squash, the game, for Vanity Fair's online edition. [2] A former reader at The Paris Review, he is a senior writer at Squash Magazine. [3]
Hashim Khan was born in Nawakille, a small village near Peshawar in modern-day Pakistan, to an ethnic Pashtun family, between 1910 and 1914. [1] [3] Hashim was the second cousin of the two other leading Pakistani players of his time Roshan Khan and Nasrullah Khan, whose sons Rehmat Khan, Torsam Khan and Jahangir Khan are also squash players. [1]
Mah Li Lian PBM (born 24 May 1968 [1]) is a Singaporean former professional squash player. [2] She is regarded as the greatest ever squash player to represent Singapore in international circuit. [3] Mah won the Asian Individual Squash Championships on four successive times in 1988, 1990, 1992 and in 1994. [4]
After a 62-minute battle, Ashour took the title 3–1 (12–10, 11–8, 4–11, 11–4). According to squash legend and writer Malcolm Willstrop, "Ramy Ashour is something else — his movement is better than anyone in the game, and allied to his unique racket skills and vision, he lights up the sport.