Simon Rösner (born 5 November 1987) is a German former professional

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player. He broke into the Top 10

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for the first time in November 2014, going on to become the highest-ranked male German squash player of all time. Rösner subsequently reached a world ranking of No. 6 matching Germany's

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's career-high world ranking of No. 6 in June 2015. Rösner 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, Rösner 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 became a silver medalist at the

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and won the Alwatan and Asnan International, a

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International 50 tournament, in

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defeating

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in the final in 3 games. He won a gold medal at the

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, Poland. In January 2018, he became the first German player to win a PSA World Series tournament at the

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, 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. Rösner reached two consecutive finals and three consecutive semi-finals in the US-Open, Qatar Classics and Hong Kong Open, respectively making 2018 his best year on the World Tour. He was 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.

Titles and finals

Major finals (3)

Major tournaments include: * PSA World Championships * PSA World Tour Finals * Top-tier PSA World Tour tournaments (Platinum/World Series/Super Series)

References

External links

* * * 1987 births Living people German male squash players World Games medalists in squash World Games gold medalists for Germany World Games silver medalists for Germany Competitors at the 2022 World Games Sportspeople from Würzburg Medalists at the 2013 World Games Medalists at the 2017 World Games 21st-century German sportsmen {{Germany-squash-bio-stub