Ross Norman Ross Norman Ross William Norman (born 7 January 1959) is a former professional squash player from New Zealand. He is best remembered for winning the World Open in 1986, when he beat Jahangir Khan of Pakistan in the final 9-5, 9-7, 7-9, 9-1. The win marked the end of an unbeaten run for Khan that had stretched for over five years (the longest in the history of professional sport). Norman had been ranked the World No. 2 behind Khan for some time going into the match, but despite a single-minded determination to end his unbeaten run had been unable to
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