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
Gordon Watson (squash player) competition in Australia, inspired him to travel to contest the British Open (the effective world championship of the sport at the time) in England in 1950; the first Australian male squash player to tour overseas. As a seeded player in his first international competition, Gordon put out Englishman E S Hawes in the first round: 9-1, 6-9, 9-0, 9-4. In the quarter finals he defeated another Englishman, W E J Gordon: 9-1, 9-7, 7-9, 10-9. Gordon met Abdul Bari, a leading Indian player, in the semi final and was defeated: 9-2, 9-2, 10-8. 1950 closed with the world rankings as