Rodney Martin

Rodney Martin

Nationality:	Australia Australia
Birthday:	October 17, 1965
1st professional season:	1986
Resignation:	1994
Playing hand:	Right
successes
Career title:	10
Career finals:	26th
Best placement:	2 (January 1994)
World championship title:	1
Sources: official player profiles at PSA and Squashinfo (see web links )

Rodney Martin (born October 17, 1965 in Australia ) is a former Australian squash player .

Career

Martin comes from a successful squash family. Like Rodney, his brother Brett Martin was a world-class player; his sister Michelle Martin even won the world championship three times from 1993 to 1995. He himself won his only world title in 1991 in front of his home crowd in Adelaide with 3-1 against Jahangir Khan . With the Australian national team , he won the world title in the same year and two years earlier. In 2007 Martin was inducted into the Squash Australia Hall of Famerecorded. In December 1994, Martin retired from his career, during which he won ten titles, due to an ongoing hip injury. His highest place in the world rankings was third in November 1992.

In 2001 he was the coach of the Australian national team. He has a son with his partner Amelia Pittock . Martin was previously married to squash player Danielle Drady , who left him for his then manager Phil Harte.

successes

World champion in singles: 1991
World champion with the team: 1989 , 1991
Won PSA -Titel: 10

Web links

Player profile at squashinfo.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Madeline Perry Rallies Into $ 50,000 Weymuller Semis , dailysquashreport.com. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
^ Richard Eaton: Squash: Martin's reign a family affair with uncle as queen-maker: British women face a battle to dislodge the confident Australian champion at this week's World Open. In: independent.co.uk. The Independent , October 3, 1994, accessed November 27, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Martin, Rodney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian squash player
DATE OF BIRTH	October 17, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Australia

[1] Madeline Perry Rallies Into $ 50,000 Weymuller Semis , dailysquashreport.com. Retrieved December 7, 2014.

[2] Richard Eaton: Squash: Martin's reign a family affair with uncle as queen-maker: British women face a battle to dislodge the confident Australian champion at this week's World Open. In: independent.co.uk. The Independent , October 3, 1994, accessed November 27, 2017 .