Simon Rösner (born 5 November 1987 in

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) is a German former professional

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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

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in the final. In 2013, in what was referred to as the battle of the giants, he beat

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in 5 games in the

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to reach the quarter-finals of a World Series tournament for the second time. In the same year, he was silver medalist of the

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and won the Alwatan and Asnan International, a PSA International 50 tournament, in

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defeating

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in the final in 3 games. In 2017, he won a gold medal at

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in Wroclaw, Poland. In January 2018, he became the first German player to win a PSA World Series tournament at the Tournament of Champions, played in

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, New York, after he followed up a stunning semi-final upset of World No.1

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to take an 11-8, 11-9, 6-11, 11-5 victory over World No.7

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in 71 minutes. Rosner reached two consecutive finals and three consecutive semi-finals in the US-Open, Qatar Classics and Hong Kong Open, respectively making 2018 the best year on the World Tour. He has been the world No. 5 between June 2018 and November 2018 and No. 3 in December 2018. On 21 December 2020, Rösner announced his retirement from the

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. He was ranked No.1 in

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and No.8 in the world.

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* * * 1987 births Living people German male squash players World Games medalists in squash World Games gold medalists World Games silver medalists Competitors at the 2013 World Games Competitors at the 2017 World Games Competitors at the 2022 World Games Sportspeople from Würzburg {{Germany-squash-bio-stub