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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
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.
This is a list of notable top international players of the racquet sport squash.. Names are highlighted in bold if the player has officially been ranked the World No.1; has won the World Open; has been champion at the British Open (which was the effective world championship of the sport prior to the 1970s); has won a singles Gold Medal at the Commonwealth Games; or has been ranked No. 1 on the ...
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]
Jahangir Khan (Pashto, Urdu: جهانګير خان born 10 December 1963) is a former professional Pakistani squash player. He won the World Open title six times, and the British Open title ten times (1982–1991). He is widely regarded as the greatest squash player of all time, [1] [2] [3] and the greatest sportsman in Pakistan history.
Geoffrey Brian Hunt, AM MBE (born 11 March 1947), is a retired Australian squash player who is widely considered to be one of the greatest squash players in history. Hunt was born in Melbourne and now resides in Queensland. [1] He won the Australian Junior Championship in 1963, and he first won the Australian Amateur Men's Championship in 1965.
The club opened in May 1989 with an annual membership fee of £2,000 (equivalent to £6,285 in 2023). [2] The annual fee had risen to £7,500 in 2019, with a joining fee of £1,000. [10] In 2019 the club had c.300 members with a lengthy waiting list. [5] Prospective members must be proposed and seconded by current members of the club. [10]