Stewart Boswell

Stewart Boswell
Nickname:	Bozza, The Surgeon
Nationality:	Australia
Birthday:	July 29, 1978
Size:	187 cm
1st professional season:	1997
Resignation:	2011
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Rodney Martin
successes
Career record:	177: 112
Career title:	20th
Career finals:	35
Best placement:	4 (May 2002)
Sources: official player profiles at PSA and Squashinfo (see web links )

Stewart Boswell (born July 29, 1978 in Canberra ) is a former Australian squash player . He was world champion in men's doubles in 2006 together with Anthony Ricketts and in 2001 and 2003 with the Australian national team as a team world champion.

Career

Boswell's professional career began in 1997, a year after he made it to the final of the 1996 World Youth Championship. He lost 3-1 to Egyptian Ahmed Faizy . He experienced his most successful year in the years 2001 to 2003. 2001 he was with the Australian national team in on home soil Melbourne champion will. Until 2003 he was able to move up to fourth place in the world rankings. In 2004 he had to take a break for almost a full year due to a serious back injury before returning to the tour in early 2005. On his comeback, he won a total of eight titles in smaller tournaments, so that by the end of 2005 he was back in the top 20. He did not leave this until his resignation. Together with Anthony Ricketts , Boswell became world champion in doubles in 2006. The duo won in Melbourne against Joseph Kneipp and Dan Jenson , also Australians. At the Commonwealth Games , he won a total of four medals: In 2002 he was eliminated in the semi-finals in the individual and won bronze. Also in 2002, 2006 and 2010, he was defeated in the final of the men's doubles and thus received the silver medal. In 2002 and 2006 he played with Anthony Ricketts, in 2010 with David Palmer . With the Australian national team he took part in world championships in 2005 , 2007 , 2009 and 2011 . He was trained by the former Australian world champion Rodney Martin at the Australian Institute of Sport .

On November 27, 2011, Boswell announced his resignation while standing at number 16 in the world rankings after he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Kuwait Cup against Grégory Gaultier . From 2014 he was head coach at the Aspire Academy in Doha . On January 1, 2020, he became the Australian national coach.

Stewart Boswell is married to the former squash player Vicky Botwright . The couple have a son and a daughter.

successes

• World Champion in doubles: 2006 (with Anthony Ricketts )
• World champion with the team: 2001
• Won PSA -Titel: 20
• Commonwealth Games : 3 × silver ( doubles 2002 , 2006 and 2010 ), 1 × bronze ( singles 2002 )

Web links

• Player profile at psaworldtour.com ( Memento from October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Player profile at squashinfo.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ RJ Mitchell: Boswell Hoping to Call on Hunt Experience in New Role as Squash Australia Coach. In: psaworldtour.com. Professional Squash Association , July 1, 2020, accessed July 1, 2020 .