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Famous people who play squash ???

August 30 2006 at 11:52 AM
Steve Cubbins  (Login stevecubs)
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Yes, we've done this before, but this time I'll keep a proper list handy ... here's your starters:

Stefan Edberg (Tennis)
Roger Federer (Tennis)
Kevin Keegan (Football)
Ellery Hanley (Rugby League)
Tommy Steele (Comedian)
Leonard Rossiter (Comedian)
Don McLean (Comedian)
Ming Tsai (US celebrity chef)
Sachin Tendulkar (Indian Cricket)
Kapil Dev (Indian Cricket)

More please !!!

 
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Celebrities who play Squaaaash

August 30 2006, 12:11 PM 

David Brent (The Office)

Gareth Keenan (The Office)

Sean Connery (Actor)

Andrew Castle (BBC Tennis Commentator)

Eddie Murphy Racquetball has/had his own

court (Comedian & Actor)

 
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Re: Celebrities who play Squaaaash

August 30 2006, 3:21 PM 

Michael Douglas

Guy Secretan (Green Wing - Channel 4

Dom Jolly....sort of anyway, its about half way in the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1pjQpgtOXk&search=trigger%20happy%20tv

 
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And ...

August 30 2006, 3:48 PM 

Kim Wilde (Pop)
David Walliams (Little Britain)
George Michael (Pop)

 
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Re: And ...

August 30 2006, 5:30 PM 

Donald Rumsfeld

 
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Re: And ...

August 30 2006, 7:12 PM 

Aamir Khan (Indian movie megastar)

Saif Ali Khan (Indian movie big star)

Abhishek Bachchan (Indian movie big star)

Steve Waugh (Australian cricket legend)

 
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Re: And ...

August 31 2006, 1:31 AM 

Amr Diab......Arabic pop singer
Hosni Mubarak.......Egyptian president

 
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Re: And ...

October 7 2006, 8:25 AM 

Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Fotballplayer Inter)

 
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Re: And ...

October 9 2006, 4:16 PM 

Jenson Button (F1)

Juan Pablo Montoya

 
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George Plimpton

August 30 2006, 6:09 PM 

at least he did ... at Harvard I think

 
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Tom Cruise, Michelle Pfeifer, Arnold Schwarzenegger

August 30 2006, 6:31 PM 

From former squash pro Grant Pinnington who used to coach at LA Fitness, Los Angeles and gave them all lessons in the late 90's.

 
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One more....

August 30 2006, 7:28 PM 

Ollie Le Roux, former South African rugby international - a 20 stone prop forward. I was told he was pretty good too! Wouldn't want him running into you asking for a let, though!

 
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Famous people....

August 30 2006, 7:48 PM 

GREAT SUBJECT!

And to be sure...you can't leave out the very prominent Senator from Pennsylvania, (U.S) Senator Arlen Specter, who has been criticized for scheduling trips according to his pre-arranged squash matches...at-a-go Senator Specter.

Not so famous, but quite prominent in the U.S. and in the world-wide corporate world are: Robert Zerbst, CEO of CB Richard Ellis Investors; Skip Dunn, CEO of the AON Corporation; Robert A. Day, CEO/Chairman of Trust Company of the West and the Keck Foundation; William E. Simon Jr., Chairman of William E. Simon & Sons Investments and of the WES Foundation.

All the above are strong supporters of our great game. I'd really be inerested in hearing about others...??

Bob Hanscom, LAAC Squash Professional

 
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Re: Famous people who play squash ???

August 31 2006, 7:32 PM 

Brad Faxon - American PGA tour player
Jacques Rogge - IOC President
Richard Pound - IOC member and WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) Chairman
Frasier and Niles Crane - fictional TV psychiatrists

 
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Re: Famous people who play squash ???

August 31 2006, 8:00 PM 

Alan Greenspan - former Federal Reserves chairman. Also current Federal reserves chairman Ben S. Bernanke.

 
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Re: Famous people who play squash ???

September 28 2006, 11:00 PM 

James Hunt used to and approached county standard.
Prince Philip was playing squash when Charles was born.
Elvis used to play racketball and died after a game.
Aaron Kricksteen(Former World no 5 tennis)
Jeremy Bates
Danny Sapsford
King Juan Carlos used to.(Flew in English pro Richard Mosley to play at palace in Madrid)
Pat Cash
Max Clifford used to
Spike Milligan used to(In a very strange outfit with a large breasted woman !)
John Cleese used to.
John Barnes( Mentioned in his autobiography)
John Scales
Martin Bell
Michael Ball(Once asked him to hit the ball flat and he replied "Could you hit a B flat ?!)
Prince Albert dabbled I think.
Kelvin Mackensie (Former Sun Editor)
Robin Smith (Former England batsman)


 
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Re: Famous people who play squash ???

October 9 2006, 4:19 PM 

Prince Rainier (Albert's father) played and there is a squash court in the Palace

Robbie Fowler (Football player)

 
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Famous squash players

September 29 2006, 11:48 AM 

Mark Boucher the SA wicket keeper played to a very high standard

Martin Freeman (the Office) is a keen squash player

 
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Dominik Hasek

September 29 2006, 1:19 PM 

The famous icehockey goalkeeper from Czech Republic,Dominik Hasek (aka Dominator),plays squash.He´s also owner of "Dominator" brand,which wore Jonathon Power.

 
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Re: Famous people who play squash ???

October 5 2006, 2:03 PM 

Paul Hewson (Bono)

 
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Brian Clough

October 5 2006, 7:54 PM 

Brian Clough, football, used to play it. Not sure if this has already been said.

Adam Hildred
Boston SRC (UK!)

 
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MIchelle Yeoh

October 5 2006, 9:14 PM 

Michelle Yeoh has played squash as junior.

 
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Steve McLaren

October 5 2006, 10:24 PM 

The Engand manager was one of the 1st York Junior Champions back in the late 70's. Don't know if he still plays

 
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Re: Steve McLaren

October 6 2006, 2:36 AM 

Pakistan's president General Parvez Musharraf plays as well

 
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powerful people

October 6 2006, 12:41 AM 

Egyptian president Mubarak is a good squash player!!!

 
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famous squashers

October 6 2006, 4:27 AM 

wayne gretzky played in toronto and was a big supporter of the annual heart fund charity squash event....jeff bridges played squash in the movie "door in the floor"......eddie grant, singer plays......one of the band members of the bare naked ladies plays in winnipeg.....dominic hasek, red wings goalie is a 4.5 player...dick stockton, tennis great plays regularily....wish there were more who play, this is one way to raise the profile of the sport!!

 
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where

October 11 2006, 5:53 PM 

sneyd....i saw this while browsing hockey sites...where are you now?

 
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famous peopel who play squash

October 7 2006, 2:18 PM 

Alan Hanson ex Liverpool and football pundit

 
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Re: Famous people who play squash ???

December 8 2006, 12:24 AM 

Some of the guys in Westlife used play in Ireland.

 
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famous squash stars

December 8 2006, 9:34 AM 

Ivan Lendl - tennis
John Cale - rockstar in his own right now and used to play with "the Velvet Underground"
Matthew Broderick - actor
Sophie B. Hawkins - singer "damn i wish I was your lover"

 
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the best?

December 8 2006, 12:55 PM 

I don't knowm about many others, but I do know that Andrew Castle is more than handy. Framboise has seen him play. Not surprising of course given his tennis background. JPR Williams did of course WIN Jnr Wimbledon and was at least County standard at Squash in the late 60's early 70's.

 
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Edberg

December 11 2006, 10:24 AM 

Stefan Edberg is no mug at squash. He has a national swedish ranking around eighty.


    
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Re: Edberg

December 13 2006, 12:14 PM 

Yes he's good - he's even talked about entering a racketlon event (badminton, squash, tennis & table tennis). Aparently he's no slouch at the latter two either!

 
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Re: Edberg

December 13 2006, 12:55 PM 

roger federer used to play

 
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Re: Edberg

December 13 2006, 12:56 PM 

I've played Racketlon all over europe and Edberg has played in a couple of events in Sweden. You are right he is a decent squash player, I'd say better than club standard but not quite county standard ( mind you I suppose it depends on which club and which county !) but anyway he is decent. Obviously his tennis goes without saying but thankfully for racketlon players ( known as rackathletes!) he is not much kop at table tennis or badminton.


 
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Squash celebrities.

December 15 2006, 6:29 AM 

Tim Allen played in the movie "Joe Somebody."

 
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Re: Squash celebrities.

December 22 2006, 4:01 PM 

Apparently, Jason Statham is a fan:

IGNFF: Beyond diving and martial arts what else did you excel at?

STATHAM: Anything gymnastics orientated: trampoline, the high jump, and gymnastics itself. I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

 
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Pervez Musarraf, President of Pakistan

December 15 2006, 3:02 PM 

I read several months ago that he likes to play a lot however his doctor thinks it is not good for his knee.

 
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Re: Pervez Musarraf, President of Pakistan

December 17 2006, 12:49 PM 

How funny that someone mentioned William E. Simon. I remember playing him a match when he was in the middle of his gubernatorial campaign against Gray Davis and embroiled in a corruption scandal. He was an intense competitor but a complete gentleman on court. Almost convinced this lifelong Democrat to vote Republican!

 
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Re: Pervez Musarraf, President of Pakistan

December 17 2006, 12:59 PM 

Anyone notice how Roger Federer stretches for his shots better than any other player on tour? I really wonder if that's a product of his squash experience as a kid. I also wonder if he would be as good a tennis player as he is if he hadn't played squash. I know squash has improved my tennis game immensely fitness wise.

 
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LEEDS RHINOS

December 23 2006, 1:46 AM 

The entire Leeds Rhinos Rugby League Squad has been at Ponte a few times trainin wi t'old malcolm willstrop.

Also Garry Sidal (ex Fetherstone Rovers Player and Challenge cup winner, Wembley 1983 and father of Lauren) was famous in his hometown haha..... he plays

 
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Re: Pervez Musarraf, President of Pakistan

December 23 2006, 5:12 AM 

the fact that he is the best tennis player in the world and trains for only that could hav somethin to do with the best stretch but its most probably the squash as a kid

 
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Famous people who play squash???

December 24 2006, 1:01 AM 

FRANK STELLA...American Artist

DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - ''I wish I could hit the squash ball as well as I can swing the brush,'' Frank Stella said.

Stella's prowess with the paint brush is beyond debate. For the last quarter-century he has ranked as one of America's major artists. Frank is an avid squash player and has sponsored major squash events and programs in the United States. He attended Phillips Academy as a boy and later Princeton University. His very large abstract creations sell for millions of dollars.

 
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Re: Famous people who play squash???

December 24 2006, 2:38 AM 

major props to him

 
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