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) not very satisfactory arrangement." Gordon retired from competition in 1950 and built a successful coaching career. He established Watson's Squash Academy by arrangement with the owner Betty Meagher (a close friend and champion pupil of Gordon's) in Flinders Lane, Melbourne for six years and then established the Gordon Watson Squash Centre in Hawthorn Road, Caulfield in 1962. As a coach, Gordon quickly demonstrated his total understanding of the sport and amassed similarly unprecedented success as that which he had enjoyed as a competitor. Before his retirement from the sport in 1979, he coached no fewer than 21 Australian title holders