Nick Matthew

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Nick Matthew Squash player
Nick Matthew
Nick Matthew at the 2017 World Cup
Nationality: EnglandEngland England
Birthday: July 25, 1980
Size: 182 cm
Weight: 78 kg
1st professional season: 1998
Resignation: 2018
Playing hand: Right
Trainer: David Pearson
successes
Career record: 515: 186
Career title: 35
Career finals: 75
Best placement: 1 (June 2010)
Month # 1: 19th
World championship title: 3
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 3 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World Games 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Commonwealth Games Federation logo Commonwealth Games
gold New Delhi 2010 singles
gold New Delhi 2010 Double
gold Glasgow 2014 singles
IWGA logo World Games
bronze Duisburg 2005 singles
gold Kaohsiung 2009 singles
Sources: official player profiles at PSA and Squashinfo (see web links )

Nicholas "Nick" Matthew , OBE (born July 25, 1980 in Sheffield ) is a former English squash player . He became world champion in 2010 , 2011 and 2013 and led the world rankings for a total of 19 months.

Career

Matthew's career on the professional tour began in 1998. In the same year he became world champion with England's junior national team , and he also reached the semi-finals in junior singles. In 2004 he finally made his first jump into the top ten of the world rankings. With his victory at the British Open in 2006, he became the first Englishman since Jim Dear in 1939 to win the tournament on home soil. He repeated this success in 2009 and 2012. At the 2009 World Games in Taiwan, Matthew won the gold medal by beating long-term rival James Willstrop . Against Willstrop, Matthew played the most World Tour games in his career with 36 clashes. He can show a 27: 9 balance in his favor. With the English national team , Matthew collected numerous titles: In 2005 and 2007 he was team world champion and from 2005 ten times European champion .

At the end of 2009 there was a tough fight for the world rankings: Matthew met Ramy Ashour at the PSA Masters in India and lost it with 1: 3. Less than a month later, the two met again in a final, this time at the Saudi International, a tournament with Super Series status. At this point it was already clear that the winner of the game would take the lead in the world rankings - a position neither of them had reached by then. In a hard-fought game, Ashour finally prevailed again 3-2 after 110 minutes and took the top position. Matthew, since then number two in the world, won the following year 2010 in five tournaments four times the tournament victory, where he was able to defeat Ramy Ashour once. The fourth tournament victory, a 3-1 against Karim Darwish , finally catapulted Matthew to the top of the world rankings for the first time in June 2010. In August 2010 there was another duel against Ashour in the final of the Australian Open. With 3-0, Matthew had the upper hand this time and was able to win his third tournament of the current Super Series season. At the Commonwealth Games 2010 Matthew won the gold medal in both singles and doubles with Adrian Grant . In December 2010, Matthew crowned the year by winning the world championship against his compatriot James Willstrop. At the 2013 World Cup , Nick Matthew won his third team title. With his tournament victory at the subsequent Hong Kong Squash Open , Matthew regained the world rankings for three more months.

Matthew announced in advance of the 2017/18 season that he would end his career when it was over. His first last tournament he played at the British Open , where he was eliminated in the second round against Raphael Kandra . As a result, he narrowly missed qualifying for the World Series Finals , whereupon Matthew ended both the season and his career. Due to the injury-related cancellation of Marwan Elshorbagys shortly before the start of the World Series Finals, Matthew moved up in ninth place in the ranking. In the preliminary round, Matthew won the group before losing to Ali Farag in the semifinals and finally declaring his career over.

Private

Nick Matthew was engaged to the English physiologist Esme Taylor since December 2012, and the couple married in June 2013. On September 9, 2014, they became parents of a daughter, and in May 2019 their son was born. On June 12, 2015 he was honored as Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for his sporting achievements . In November 2016 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sheffield .

successes

literature

  • Matthew, Nick: Sweating Blood: My Life in Squash: The Official Autobiography of Nick Matthew . internationalSPORTgroup, 2013. ISBN 978-0992712600 .

Web links

Commons : Nick Matthew  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nick Matthew: I was world No 1 but I hated being on court. In: thetimes.co.uk. The Times , March 31, 2018, accessed April 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Dream Final it really was ... , Squashsite.co.uk, December 18, 2009
  3. ↑ Swedish Open 2010 , Squashsite.co.uk of 7 February 2010
  4. ^ North American Open 2010 , Squashsite.co.uk, February 27, 2010
  5. ↑ Canary Wharf Classic 2010 ( Memento from May 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Squash.me.uk from March 26, 2010
  6. ↑ Sky Open , Squashsite.co.uk, May 22, 2010
  7. ↑ Commonwealth Games 2010 ( Memento from October 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Squash.me.uk from October 8, 2010
  8. ^ Rod Gilmour: Nick Matthew ends glittering career in pain, defeat and controversy. In: telegraph.co.uk. The Daily Telegraph , May 17, 2018, accessed May 24, 2018 .
  9. ↑ British Open: Quarter Finals - As It Happens. In: psaworldtour.com. Professional Squash Association , May 18, 2018, accessed May 24, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Nick Matthew: Three-time world champion delays retirement for World Series Finals. In: bbc.com. British Broadcasting Company , May 30, 2018, accessed May 30, 2018 .
  11. ↑ World Series Finals: Nick Matthew's career ends in semi-final defeat to Ali Farag. In: bbc.com. British Broadcasting Company , June 8, 2018, accessed June 11, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Sheffield squash star Nick Matthew to get OBE , thestar.co.uk, June 12, 2015. Accessed June 14, 2015.
  13. ↑ World Champion squash player awarded Honorary Doctorate , shu.ac.uk, November 22, 2016. Accessed November 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Matthew, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthew, Nicholas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English squash player
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield , England