Jonah Barrington (squash player) Jonah Barrington (squash player) Jonah Barrington (born 29 April 1941) is a retired Irish/English squash player, originally from Morwenstow, Cornwall, England. A Cornish-born Irish squash player, Barrington won the British Open (which was considered to be the effective world championship event before the World Open began) six times between 1967 and 1973, and was known as "Mr. Squash". Barrington attended Headfort School (County Meath, Ireland), Cheltenham College, and spent two years at Trinity College Dublin. The six-time British champion came from an old Anglo-Irish family. Jonah now coaches Egyptian world no.1 and 2015 British Open champion Mohamed El Shorbagy. One
Women's squash in Australia of the best known Australian squash players include Heather Blundell-McKay. During Blundell-McKay's squash career, she only lost twice. She won the British amateur title seven times starting in 1962 and she won the Australian championship eight times starting in 1960. In 1960, there was a mass demonstration of the sport at a school in Roseville, New South Wales, where female students learned a number of skills including the forehand drive. In 1968, Australia had thirty total professional squash players amongst both genders. Only two of these players were female: Yvonne Barlow and a Melbourne based player. In 1968, Australia was