Country: MAS
Date of Birth: 26/08/1983
Place of Birth: Penang
Place of Residence: Penang, Malaysia & Amsterdam
WSQ-M08 Seeding:
Highest World Ranking: 1
World Tour Titles: 30
World Tour Finals: 44
Squash Achievements: World Number One and two time World Champion
Ambitions: Win more World Championships
The most successful Malaysian squash player of all-time,
Nicol is rapidly establishing herself as her country's most
successful sportswoman ever. After becoming the first player
in history to win the biennial World Junior squash title twice,
Nicol soon made her mark on the WISPA World Tour - and at the
Singapore Masters in August, notched up 30th Tour title in just
eight years.
Nicol's senior breakthrough came after she
moved to Amsterdam in 2003 to work with respected coach Liz Irving.
It was in 2005 that she began her remarkable run - winning her
first British Open crown in September and her maiden World title in
Hong Kong in December. Further World Open success came in Belfast
in 2006 and two more British Open titles in 2006 and
2008.
This year's Singapore Masters victory marked
her 27th successive Tour final appearance in 29 events since the
British Open in 2005. But, off-court, accolades kept coming
Nicol's way: The 25-year-old received Malaysia's highest
honour, the 'Order of Merit' in June, then the following month was
conferred a 'Datukship', becoming Penang's youngest ever Datuk