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Hardball Squash
Hardball squash is a format of the indoor racquet sport squash which was first developed in North America in the late 19th century and early 20th century. It is sometimes referred to as being the "American version" of the sport. Compared to the "British version" of the game—which today is usually referred to as being the "international" version, or "softball" squash—the hardball game is played using a harder rubber ball which plays faster, and usually on a smaller court for singles play, or a much larger court for the doubles game. Records of squash being played in Canada go back to the early 1880s. There it was found that the softer squash balls being used in Britain were not ideally suited to playing in the extremely cold conditions of the Canadian winter, and so a harder rubber ball was developed. It was quickly discovered that this ball was better suited to playing on slightly narrower courts than were used in the British version of the game. As the popularity of the game sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racquet Sport
Racket sports are games in which players use a racket or paddle to hit a ball or other object. Rackets consist of a handled frame with an open hoop that supports a network of tightly stretched strings. Paddles have a solid face rather than a network of strings, but may be perforated with a pattern of holes, or be covered with some form of textured surface. Sports that use a netted racket * Badminton * Ball badminton * Frontenis * Battledore and shuttlecock * Crossminton (previously "Speedminton") * Qianball * Racketlon (a series of other racket and paddle sports) * Rackets * Racquetball * Real tennis * Road tennis * Soft tennis * Speed-ball * Squash ** Hardball squash * Squash tennis * Stické * Tennis * Tennis polo * Touchtennis * Lawn Tennis Sports that use a non-netted racket, or paddle * Basque pelota * Beach tennis * The Downside Ball Game * Four wall paddleball * Frescotennis * Jokari * Matkot * Miniten * One wall paddleball * Paddle ball * Paddle te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharif Khan
Sharif Khan (born 1945) is a Pakistani-Canadian retired professional squash player. He is widely considered to be one of the all-time great players of hardball squash (a North American variant of squash played with a faster-moving ball and on slightly smaller courts than the international "softball" squash game). He was the dominant player on the hardball squash circuit throughout the 1970s. Sharif was born in Pakistan, and is the son of the legendary squash player Hashim Khan (who dominated the international squash game in the 1950s). Biography Sharif is the eldest of Hashim Khan's 12 children, and a member of the Khan squash family. At the age of 11, he was awarded a squash scholarship at Millfield School in Somerset, England. Despite having almost no knowledge of the English language when he arrived, he performed well academically and also developed into an outstanding squash player who, by 1962, had won every public school title open to him including the public schools und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (July 9, 1932 – June 29, 2021) was an American politician, government official and businessman who served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under president Gerald Ford, and again from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He was both the youngest and the oldest secretary of defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a three-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1963–1969), director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969–1970), counselor to the president (1969–1973), the U.S. Representative to NATO (1973–1974), and the White House Chief of Staff (1974–1975). Between his terms as secretary of defense, he served as the CEO and chairman of several companies. Born in Illinois, Rumsfeld attended Princeton University, graduating in 1954 with a degree in political science. After serving in the Navy for three years, he mounted a campaign for Congress in Illinois's 13th Congressional District, winning in 1962 at the age of 30. Rumsfeld a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roshan Khan
Roshan Khan (Pashto / ur, ; 26 November 1929 – 6 January 2006) was a squash player from Nawakille, Peshawar, Pakistan. He was one of the leading players in the game in the early-1960s, and won the British Open title in 1957.Profile of Roshan Khan on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government website Retrieved 16 July 2019 His son became the world's leading squash player in the 1980s. Career In 1949, Roshan finished runner-up to Hashim at the inaugural Pakistan Open. He went on to win that title three consecutive times between 1951 and 1953. In 1956, Roshan faced Hashim in the final of the British Op ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohibullah "Mo" Khan
Mohibullah Khan, often referred to by the nickname "Mo Khan", (2 December 1937 – 31 March 1994) was a squash player from Pakistan. He was one of the leading players in the game in the 1960s and a member of the famous Khan Dynasty of squash. His biggest triumph was winning the British Open in 1963. Life and career Mo was the nephew of the two most dominant Pakistani squash players of the 1950s – the brothers Hashim Khan and Azam Khan. He was also the nephew of Roshan Khan, winner of the British Open in 1957. Roshan is the father of Jahangir Khan, regarded as the greatest squash player in history. During the 1950s and 1960s, Mo and his uncles Hashim, Azam, and Roshan dominated the sport by capturing almost every major professional squash competition. Mo finished runner-up at the British Open to his uncle Azam in 1959, 1961 and 1962. (The British Open was considered to be the effective world championship of the sport at the time.) He then won the British Open in 1963 in dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jahangir Khan
Jahangir Khan (Pashto/ ur, جهانگير خان born 10 December 1963) is a former World No. 1 professional Pakistani squash player. He won the World Open title six times , and the British Open title ten times (1982-1991). Jahangir Khan is widely regarded as the greatest squash player of all time. Early life Khan was born into Pashtun family from Neway Kelay Payan, Peshawar. During his career he won the World Open six times and the British Open a record ten consecutive times. He retired as a player in 1993, and has served as President of the World Squash Federation from 2002 to 2008. Later in 2008, he became Emeritus President of the World Squash Federation. He is the son of Roshan Khan, brother of Torsam Khan and a cousin of both Rehmat Khan and British singer Natasha Khan (better known as Bat for Lashes. He currently lives in Karachi, Pakistan with his wife Ghazala (m.1999) and his three children. Career Jahangir Khan was coached initially by his father Roshan, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hashim Khan
Hashim Khan ( ps, ; – 18 August 2014) was a squash player from Pakistan. He won the British Open Squash Championships (the then ''de facto'' world championship) a total of seven times, from 1951 to 1956, and then again in 1958. Khan was the patriarch of the Khan squash family, which dominated the sport from the 1950s through the 1980s. Early life Hashim Khan was born in Nawakille, a small village near Peshawar in modern-day Pakistan, to an ethnically Pashtun family, between 1910 and 1914. 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. The exact birthdate is unknown. According to his family members, he turned 100 on 1 July 2014 (the family celebrated his birthday on 1 July). Khan's father, Abdullah Khan was chief steward at a British officer's club in Peshawar. He brought Hashim when he was 8 to the squash courts which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azam Khan (squash Player)
Azam Khan (Pashto: اعظم خان; 20 April 1926Azam Khan, champion squash player and member of the sport's greatest dynasty – obituary The Telegraph (UK newspaper), Published 4 April 2020, Retrieved 21 July 2020 – 28 March 2020) was a Pakistani player who won the Championships four times between 1959 and 1962. Early life and ...
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Mark Talbott
Mark Talbott is an American squash coach and former professional squash player. He is known as one of the all-time great players of hardball squash. Talbott was inducted into the United States Squash Hall of Fame in 2000. He was the World Professional Squash Association Player of the Year eight times and an Olympic Athlete of the Year in 1991, `92, and `95. In addition, he captained the first USA Team to compete in the Pan American Games in 1995, earned the Sharif Khan Award for Sportsmanship in 1991, and won the United States Squash Racquets Association (USSRA) President’s Cup in 1989. Playing career Raised in Dayton, Ohio, Talbott graduated from the Mercersburg Academy in 1978. He joined the World Professional Squash Association hardball tour in 1980 and was ranked as the World No. 1 hardball squash player for 13 years, from 1983–95. He won 70% of the tournaments he entered during that period. Talbott is considered the most dominant American squash player in history. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Sánchez (squash Player)
Mario Iván Sánchez Oviedo is a squash (sport), squash player from Mexico. He was one of the leading hardball squash players in North America in the late 1970s and 1980s. He is one of the best players in the history of México and number one seeded in 1983, the only player to beat Jahangir Khan 3–0 and played the longest match in hard ball with Jeff Hunt from Australia in Toronto Ontario Canada at the Mennen Cup it went for 2.15 hours including 11 minutes between matches. He was a seven-time World Champion; Boys 1974 Shady Side Academy Canada and México, Junior 18 and under in 1977, Teams Championships in 1976 and 1977 like racket number one, Amateur Championship in Portland USA and Vancouver Canada and México in 1989. Turn Pro in 1980 and he was seeded number one in 1983 living in New York. Their sponsors Manta made two rackets under his approval in 1982 for Manta Yonnex and in 1987 for Black Knight, Hall of Fame in December 2007. He stopped competing in 1995. References E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Salaun (squash Player)
Henri Raoul Marie Salaun (6 April 1926 - 4 June 2014) was an American hardball squash player. He was "widely considered one of the world’s most influential squash players."WESLEYAN FOOTPRINTS: Henri Salaun '49 battled through WWII obstacles, found squash fame , Middletown Press. By Joe Pelletier, Sports Editor. Published 17 September 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2012. Born in (his paternal grandfather was the French admiral Henri Salaun), he played high school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainer Ratinac
Rainer Michael Ratinac is a former squash player from Australia. He was one of the leading players on the North American hardball squash circuit in the 1970s. Ratinac was the runner-up at the US Open squash championship in 1974. After retiring Ratinac became a Baptist minister, working as a sports chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intelligence .... References Australian male squash players Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century Australian Baptist ministers 21st-century Australian Baptist ministers {{Australia-squash-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
