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) Karim No. 1; Bari No. 2; and Gordon Watson No. 3. English squash professional and writer Jack Giles wrote in Squash Player International in 1974, "The first [Australian] player to really make an impact on the international scene was G.J. (Gordon) Watson. A very popular and respected figure, Gordon was a player of undoubted world class. He was afflicted by that bane of so many potentially great players - lack of real all-year round competition. He could get that competition in those days only by coming to the U.K, then only for a month at a time. An expensive and