Tag: Nicol David
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Nicol David in record World Games gold bid
London, June 2, 2017: Malaysia’s eight-time women’s world squash champion Nicol David is bidding to win a record fourth World Games gold medal when the 2017 event takes place in Poland next month. Squash’s fifth appearance in the World Games, the multi-sport event for non-Olympic sports, will take place at the 33-court Hasta la Vista…
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Nicol David Sets Historic Record Ranking Run
London, July 1, 2016: Malaysia’s record eight-time Women’s World Squash Champion Nicol David Sets Historic celebrates an historic milestone this month after reaching her 151st successive month in the world top 10. The 32-year-old WSF Athletes Commission Director from Penang overtakes the 150-month world top 10 record established by Britain’s Peter Nicol when he retired…
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Nicol David Is Cleveland Classic Queen
Cleveland, USA, Feb 03, 2015: Malaysia’s world number one Nicol David celebrated her fifth successive appearance in the final of the Women’s Cleveland Classic by despatching world No.2 Raneem El Welily in straight games to win the WSA International 50squash event at Cleveland Racquet Club in Cleveland, USA, for the third time. It was an…
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Nicol David Makes History As Longest-Reigning World No.1 Ever
London, Feb 1, 2015: Malaysian Nicol David has created a new world record for the length of time a squash player has topped the world rankings after marking her 106th month as world number one in the February Women’s World Squash Rankings published by the Women’s Squash Association. The 31-year-old from Penang, who first headed…
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Nicol David survives match-balls to claim record eighth World Title
Cairo, Dec 20, 2014: In a dramatic climax to the Wadi Degla Women’s World Squash Championship, Malaysia’s world number one Nicol David saved four match-balls in the final of the 30th staging of the premier Women’s Squash Association tournament to overcome home favourite Raneem El Welily in a five-game 66-minute display of exhilarating squash at…
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Nicol David wins historic US Open hat-trick
Philadelphia, Oct 18, 2014: Malaysian superstar Nicol David claimed the latest historic achievement in her illustrious squash career when she beat Egypt’s Nour El Sherbini in the final of the Women’s Delaware Investments US Open in Philadelphia to become the first player in the 60-year history of the championship to win the title three times…
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Nicol David & Nick Matthew Celebrate
Glasgow, July 29, 2014: Top seeds Nicol David and Nick Matthew marked an historic Commonwealth Games double today when both successfully retained their Squash singles titles at the Glasgow 2014 Games. David – the world No1 from Malaysia who is competing in her fifth successive Games since her maiden home soil appearance in 1998 in…
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Squash flagged up by Commonwealth Games
London, July 22, 2014: Squash is basking in the glory of having three of its elite athletes chosen to be flag-bearers at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow tomorrow evening. After Malaysian superstar and women’s world number one Nicol David was given the honour of leading the eight Asian countries into…
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Nicol Reclaims Crown in Women’s Allam British Open
England, May 18, 2014: World number one Nicol David avenged her title loss last year by beating England’s defending champion Laura Massaro in today’s final of the Women’s Allam British Open Squash Championship to win the historic Women’s Squash Association (WSA) World Series Platinum title at the Sports Arena in Hull for the fifth time…
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El Sherbini shocks David in major championship upset
Penang, Mar 22, 2014: Egyptian teenager Nour El Sherbini produced a stunning upset in today’s semi-finals of the Penang CIMB Women’s World Squash Championship in Malaysia by beating home heroine Nicol David, the world number one and seven-time champion, to became the first unseeded player to reach the premier Women’s Squash Association (WSA) event final…