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2013 Men's British Open
The Men's Allam British Open 2013 is the men's edition of the 2013 British Open Squash Championships, which is a PSA World Series event Platinum (Prize money : 150,000 $). The event took place at the KC Stadium in Hull in England from 20 to 26 May. Ramy Ashour won his first British Open trophy, beating Grégory Gaultier in the final. Prize money and ranking points For 2013, the prize purse was $150,000. The prize money and points breakdown is as follows: Seeds Draw and results See also *2013 Men's World Open Squash Championship The AJ Bell 2013 Men's World Open Squash Championship is the men's edition of the 2013 World Championship, which serves as the individual world championship for squash players. The event took place in Manchester in England from 26 October to 3 ... * 2013 Women's British Open Squash Championship References External linksPSA British Open 2013 website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Open Squash Championships
The British Open Squash Championships is the oldest tournament in the game of squash. It is widely considered to be one of the two most prestigious tournaments in the game, alongside the World Squash Championships (prior to the establishment of the World Squash Championships which was called the World Open at the time) in the 1970s, the British Open was generally considered to be the ''de facto'' world championship of the sport. The British Open Squash Championships are often referred to as being the ''" Wimbledon of Squash"''. History While there had been a professional men's championship for some years, the 'open' men's championship (for both professionals and amateurs) was not inaugurated until 1930. Charles Read, British professional champion for many years, was designated the first open title holder. Would-be challengers were required to demonstrate they were capable of mounting a competent challenge as well as guaranteeing a minimum 'purse' (prize money) of £100 (whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Müller (squash Player)
Nicolas Müller (born 24 August 1989, in Winterthur) is a professional squash player who represents Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel .... He reached a career-high ranking of World No. 17 in December 2014. He became the first Swiss squash player to reach the 20th place in the world ranking, in 2012. References External links * * Swiss male squash players Living people 1989 births Sportspeople from Winterthur {{Switzerland-squash-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarek Momen
Tarek Momen (born 23 February 1988 in Cairo) is a professional squash player representing Egypt. He is a former World Champion, and reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 3 in February 2019. Career overview A PSA member since 2005, Tarek Momen found time to graduate in Electronic Engineering at the American University in Cairo before devoting himself 100% to the Tour – and first breaking into the top 20 world rankings in August 2010, then celebrating a career-high No10 in April 2013. The latest Egyptian to break into the world top ten, Momen reached his first Tour final at the Thessaloniki Open in Greece in March 2006 as a qualifier – upsetting No2 seed Daryl Selby in the semi-finals before losing out to Spanish favourite Borja Golán in the final. It was five years later before he converted a final appearance into a winner's cheque – claiming his maiden title at the 2011 Irish Open in Dublin. Unseeded, Momen dismissed No2 seed Olli Tuominen, then third seed S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saurav Ghosal
Saurav Ghosal (born 10 August 1986, in Kolkata, West Bengal) is a professional squash player from India and reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 10 in April 2019. He completed his schooling at Lakshmipat Singhania Academy in Kolkata. Career overview In 2013, Saurav became the first Indian to reach the Quarter finals of the World Squash Championship at Manchester, England. In 2004, he became the first Indian ever to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title, defeating Adel El Said of Egypt in the final at Sheffield, England. Saurav moved to Chennai after completing his school and was based at the ICL squash academy in Chennai and coached by Major (Rtd) Maniam and Cyrus Poncha in Chennai, India. Currently based in Leeds, he trains with Malcolm Willstrop at Pontefract Squash Club in West Yorkshire. Saurav is the current Indian national champion after he defeated Gaurav Nandrajog at the National Championships 2006 in New Delhi. As of May 2010, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Kemp
Jonathan Kemp (born 18 March 1981 in Wolverhampton) is a professional squash player who represented England. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 20 in July 2010. References External links * * English male squash players Living people 1981 births Sportspeople from Wolverhampton {{UK-squash-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alister Walker
Alister Walker (born 19 September 1982) is a professional squash player who represented England. He now represents Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label= Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kal .... He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 12 in September 2009. References External links * * * English male squash players Living people 1982 births People from Gaborone Botswana squash players Commonwealth Games competitors for Botswana Squash players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games {{UK-squash-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Coppinger
Stephen Coppinger (born 24 September 1984 in Dublin, Ireland) is a former professional squash player who represented South Africa. He grew up in Mombasa, Kenya and was educated at Hilton College. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 14 in April 2015. References External links * * 1984 births Living people South African male squash players Sportspeople from Cape Town Alumni of Hilton College (South Africa) 21st-century South African people {{SouthAfrica-squash-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Waller (squash Player)
Adrian Waller (born 26 December 1989 in Enfield) is a professional squash player who represents England. Career Waller won British Junior National titles at various age categories before joining the PSA Tour. In 2017, he was part of the England team that won the silver medal at the World Team Championships in Marseille and repeated the success two years later at the 2019 Championships. In 2018, he won a silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the men's doubles with Daryl Selby. During the 2019-20 season he won the Life Time Chicago Open. In November 2019, he hit a career best world ranking (at the time) of 17. In 2021, he finished runner up to Joel Makin at the British National Squash Championships. In 2022, he won two more Commonwealth Games silver medals, at the 2022 Commonwealth Games The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Rösner
Simon Rösner (born 5 November 1987 in Würzburg) is a German former professional squash player. He broke the Top 10 in the PSA World Rankings for the first time in November 2014, going on to become the highest-ranked male German player of all time. Rosner subsequently reached a world ranking of No. 6 matching Germany's Sabine Schone's career-high world ranking of No. 6 in June 2015. Rosner broke into the world Top 5 in June 2018 and Top 3 in December 2018 making him the highest-ever-ranked German player. Career overview In October 2012, Rosner won the Santiago Squash Open against Cameron Pilley in the final. In 2013, in what was referred to as the battle of the giants, he beat Omar Mosaad in 5 games in the North American Open to reach the quarter-finals of a World Series tournament for the second time. In the same year, he was silver medalist of the World Games in Cali and won the Alwatan and Asnan International, a PSA International 50 tournament, in Kuwait defeating Borj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ong Beng Hee
Ong Beng Hee (born 4 February 1980, in Penang, Malaysia) is a retired professional squash player and coach. Between 2000 and 2006, he won four consecutive Asian Championship titles. In 2002 and 2006 he won gold medals at the Asian Games. He won 11 Professional Squash Association (PSA) Tour titles out of 19 final appearances, and earned a world ranking of No. 7, a career-best. This record of achievements has made him Malaysia's most successful male squash player in history. He retired in July 2015. Biography 1994 – 1997 Ong Beng Hee began playing squash when he was eight – at the 17-court club his squash-enthusiast father had built in Malaysia. He first came to international attention in January 1994 when he won the British Junior Under-14 Open title in England. A year later he reached the final of the Under-16 British Open, eventually winning the Under-16 title in January 1996. Later that year, he reached the semi-finals of the 1996 World Junior Open in Egypt, competing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Pilley
Cameron Pilley (born 27 October 1982) is a former professional squash player from Australia. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 11 in January 2011. Pilley was born in Grafton, New South Wales. From 2001 to 2005, he attended the Australian Institute of Sport on a squash scholarship, where he trained under Geoff Hunt and Rodney Martin. He announced his retirement from professional squash on 27 December 2019. Career overview As a junior player, Pilley won the Australian under-19 title twice and represented Australia in the World Junior Championships. In 2006, he finished runner-up in the mixed doubles event at the World Doubles Squash Championships, partnering with Amelia Pittock. In 2008, he reached the final of the Canary Wharf Squash Classic, losing James Willstrop in the final 9–11, 11–9, 8–11, 11–6, 11–3. In November 2010, he won the Dutch Open against Laurens Jan Anjema in the final 11–7, 11–9, 11–13, 14–12. On 3 October 2011, Pille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (squash Player)
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Forero (born December 20, 1985 in Bogotá), known as Miguel Rodríguez, is a professional male squash player who represents Colombia. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 4 in June 2015. Early life Rodríguez was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He was introduced to squash at the age of 2 by his father Ángel, a former professional squash player himself. He played primarily at the Club El Nogal in Bógota. Miguel attended the school Calasanz, where he also played football and table tennis. His most significant achievement as a junior is winning the US Junior Open and the Canadian Junior Open in Boys' Under 19 for 2 years in a row in 2003 and 2004. Rodríguez then started his professional squash career, and saw his first PSA World Tour title in November 2005 at the age of 19. Career overview Rodríguez won the Colombian Open twice, in 2008 and 2010, and was runner-up in 2006 and 2012. Rodriguez won the Pan American Games in 2015 In September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |