Murray Lilley

Murray Lilley

Nationality:	New Zealand New Zealand
1st professional season:	1977
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Dardir El Bakary
successes
Best placement:	10
Sources: official player profiles at PSA and Squashinfo (see web links )

Murray Lilley is a retired New Zealand squash player .

Career

Murray Lilley grew up in Taranaki and started playing squash in earnest at the age of 19. Before that, he had mainly played tennis .

He was active as a squash player in the 1970s and 1980s. Together with Bruce Brownlee , he was the first player in New Zealand in 1977 to play squash as a professional player. In the same year he was led behind Brownlee in second place in the national rankings and was subject to him in the final of the national championship. With the New Zealand national team he took in 1977 at the World Cup in part and was behind Pakistan vice-world champion. Between 1977 and 1981 he was three times in the main field of the individual world championships. His best performance was reaching the round of 16 in 1979 . Lilley was active as a professional player for about two years and reached his highest place in the world rankings with rank 10.

After his playing career, after moving to Calgary in 1980 , he became the coach of the Canadian national team . On the occasion of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Lilley was one of the contenders for the place as a brakeman of the bobsleigh team , but narrowly missed the leap into the team. After his time as a coach in Canada, he opened a tennis club in Florida and is still active as a tennis coach today. He has a son.

successes

Vice world champion with the team: 1977
New Zealand runner-up : 1977

Web links

Player profile at squashinfo.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^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. 160-161 .
^ 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 .
↑ Tennis Pros. In: kiwitennisclub.com. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lilley, Murray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	New Zealand squash player
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[romanos-1] 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. 160-161 .

[2] 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 .

[3] Tennis Pros. In: kiwitennisclub.com. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .