Squash

Somewhere around 1830, the sport called ‘squash’ was discovered by pupils of Harrow School when racket balls actually squashed when being hit on the wall. In 1864, squash was officially became a sport. The equipments needed by a squash player are a racket, a squash balls and squash shoes.

Nicol Ann David, or well known as Nicol David is one of the best Squash player in the world. She is Malaysian and was born on 26 August 1983 in Penang, Malaysia. Nicol David is the first Asian woman to achieve first in women’s squash. She is also the first squash player to have won the World Junior title twice in 1999 and 2001. The first achievement that she won is Asian Squash Championship in 1998.  She also won the British Open title in 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2012, as well as the World Open title a record 6 times in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Grégory Gaultier was born on 23 December 1982, in Épinal, France. He is a professional man squash player from France. He won the British Open in 2007. Besides that he also finished runner-up at the World Open in 2006, 2007 and 2011. Gaultier was the European junior squash champion in 2000 and 2001. He also won a British Junior Open title and finished as the runner-up at the world junior championships. In 2003, he was a member of the French team which finishes runners-up to Australia at the World Team Squash Championships. In the semi-finals against England, Gaultier won the deciding match against Lee Beachill which took France through to the final.