Bruce Brownlee

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Bruce Brownlee Squash player
Nationality: New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
1st professional season: 1977
Resignation: 1982
Playing hand: Right
Trainer: Dardir El Bakary
successes
Best placement: 6 (January 1981)
Sources: official player profiles at PSA and Squashinfo (see web links )

Bruce Brownlee (* before 1964 ) is a former New Zealand squash player .

Career

Bruce Brownlee grew up in Hamilton . Both parents were also squash players; his mother had played for the New Zealand national team in 1962 and 1963 . In 1964 he played squash for the first time. The following year, his father Colin opened his own squash center in Rotorua , where Brownlee also went to school.

He was active as a squash player in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1976 he was the first New Zealander to win the British Amateur Championships. He was also the winner of the first edition of the New Zealand Open . Together with Murray Lilley , he was the first New Zealand player in 1977 to play squash as a professional player. That year he won the Canadian Open Championships . With the New Zealand national team he took part in the World Cup in 1976 , 1977 and 1981 . In 1977 he was runner- up with the team behind Pakistan . From 1977 to 1980 he was three times in the main field of the individual world championships. His best performance was reaching the quarter-finals in 1977 and 1979 . He won the New Zealand National Championship in 1977 and 1981 . He ended his career in 1982 because of a hip injury that forced him to undergo eight operations from 1988 to 2008. He reached his best position in the world rankings with rank six in January 1981. After the end of his career, he coached Stephen Cunningham, among others .

Brownlee, who is married to the squash player Robyn Blackwood , was inducted into the New Zealand Squash Hall of Fame in 2009, the year it was founded. The couple has three children.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Joseph Romanos: Long or Short? The Story of New Zealand Squash . 1st edition. New Zealand Squash Hall of Fame , Waitakere 2010, ISBN 978-0-9864615-1-4 , pp. 150-153 .
  2. ↑ Michael Palmer: Guinness Book of Squash . Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1984, ISBN 0-85112-270-1 , pp. 80 .
  3. ^ Joseph Romanos: Long or Short? The Story of New Zealand Squash . 1st edition. New Zealand Squash Hall of Fame , Waitakere 2010, ISBN 978-0-9864615-1-4 , pp. 149 .
  4. ^ Joseph Romanos: Long or Short? The Story of New Zealand Squash . 1st edition. New Zealand Squash Hall of Fame , Waitakere 2010, ISBN 978-0-9864615-1-4 , pp. 220 .
  5. ↑ Squash: Greats in hall of fame. In: nzherald.co.nz. The New Zealand Herald , June 3, 2009, accessed August 28, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Kiwi Hall of Fame established. In: squashsite.co.uk. Accessed August 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Brownlee, Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand squash player
DATE OF BIRTH before 1964