Jonathon Power

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Jonathon Power Squash player
Nickname: The Magician
Nationality: CanadaCanada Canada
Birthday: August 9, 1974
Size: 182 cm
1st professional season: 1993
Resignation: 2006
Playing hand: Right
Trainer: Mike Way
successes
Career title: 37
Career finals: 61
Best placement: 1 (May 1999)
Month # 1: 14th
World championship title: 1
Sources: official player profiles at PSA and Squashinfo (see web links )

Jonathon Tyler Power (born August 9, 1974 in Comox ) is a retired Canadian squash player . He became world champion in 1998 and was the first world number one from North America.

Career

Power started playing squash when he was seven and turned pro at 16. In 1991 he joined the PSA professional tour , on which he won a total of 37 tournaments by the end of his career and was in 24 other finals. His greatest achievement was winning the 1998 World Cup . He was also able to win the British Open (1999) once , the PSA Super Series twice , the PSA Masters three times and the Tournament of Champions four times . At the Commonwealth Games in 2002 , he also won the gold medal in singles. In 2006 he became the Pan American champion . With the Canadian national team , he took part in ten world championships: 1991 , 1993 , 1995 , 1997 , 1999 , 2001 , 2003 , 2005 , 2007 and 2009 . In 1997 he became vice world champion together with Gary Waite , Kelly Patrick and Graham Ryding . With eight titles he is the record holder at the Canadian championships .

Power was very popular with the spectators, which, in addition to his style of play, was mainly due to his emotional outbursts and discussions with the referees, which is why he was often compared with the tennis player John McEnroe . In addition, Power's rivalry with the British Peter Nicol was one of the most famous and longest in history, alongside that of Jansher and Jahangir Khan .

In January 2006, after a four and a half year abstinence from world number one, Jonathon Power regained it, setting a record: never before had a player topped the world rankings again after such a long time. The following month he lost the position again, only to hold it again on March 1 of that year. Since it was Power's ultimate goal to resign as world number one, he announced his official resignation from the professional squash on March 2, 2006. With this, Power also created a novelty, as he was top placed for the Super Series finals scheduled a week later . The leader of the Super Series tour had never taken part in the final. After his resignation, Power tried above all to further develop the sport of squash in North America and especially in Canada.

Jonathon Power is married.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eric Andrew-Gee: Jonathon Power finds sweet spot after squash supremacy. In: thestar.com. The Star , January 3, 2015, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Greatest Squash Player: Jonathon Power & Raneem El Welily Voted Number 5. In: psaworldtour.com. PSA World Tour , August 27, 2018, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  3. ^ Rod Gilmour: Jonathon Power and Peter Nicol to resume squash rivalry on Legends Tour. In: telegraph.co.uk. The Daily Telegraph , February 26, 2010, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  4. ^ A long rivalry. (pdf) In: squashplayer.co.uk. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  5. ^ Peter Nicol of Jonathon Power. In: squashplayer.co.uk. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Power, Jonathon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Power, Jonathon Tyler (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian squash player
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Comox , Canada