Rodney Martin
Rodney Martin | |
Nationality: | 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 | |
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SURNAME | Martin, Rodney |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian squash player |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Australia |