Anyone for squash?

Call me sad, but I was reading the sports section of the Hutchinson Book of Facts 2005 in the library the other day. After all, you don't get good at table quizes by not reading books like this (Hi Phil, Marie!!)!

I happened across a paragraph on squash, not a sport I'd have a tremendous interest in. I knew about the Khan boys from Pakistan and that one of them (Jahangir) was unbeaten for ages (555 matches over 5 years and 8 months to be precise). I thought that was amazing until I read the female record. In the 60s and 70s, an Aussie named Heather McKay was unbeaten for the last 17 years of her career and was beaten only twice in 19 years!! Now that's amazing in any man's language. There is no way that the rest of the 2 billion odd women in the world during this time could be complete pants over the course of 19 years. Obviously, she must have been some player! Even Tiger Woods recent win ratio is rubbish in comparison (apples and oranges, I know).

Unsurprisingly, according to a web site I looked up, Heather McKay is considered Australia’s greatest ever sportswoman.

The fact that she does seem to have looked like a cross between Billie Jean King and Fatima Whitbread is neither here nor there!!