MALAYSIA'S CHAMP
DATUK NICOL DAVID
currently ranked world number 6. Beginning in August 2006, David was the world number one for a
record-breaking 108 consecutive months, finally ceding the ranking in September 2015 to Raneem E
in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014, as well as the British Open title in 2005, 2006,
2008, 2012 and 2014. In July 2016, she reached her 151st successive month in the top 10, breaking the
record in both men's and women's categories. She surpassed Peter Nicol's previous records of 150
months.
David is the first squash player to have won the World Junior title twice; in 1999 and 2001 under the
tutelage of Richard Glanfield. She remained the only female squash player to have achieved this,
until Raneem El Weleily emulated David's feat by winning her second World Junior Championship in
2007. David joined WISPA and turned professional in 2000 when she won her first WISPA title, after only
a month on the tour. The victory came in February, when she defeated Salma Shabana in the final of
the Savcor Finnish Open. On 7 June 2008, David was honoured with the Order of Merit (Darjah Bakti) or
D.B. in conjunction with the birthday of the His Majesty Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin. She was the first
recipient of the award which was established on 26 June 1975. David was also invited to carry the
Olympic torch for Malaysia during the build up to the Athens Olympics in 2004 and being appointed
as UNDP National Goodwill Ambassador for Malaysia.
Considered by some to be the greatest women's squash player of all time,[5][6][7] David's other notable
achievements include the Asian Squash Championship, which she won a record nine times (in 1998
, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2015). She also held a 13-month, 51-match winning
streak, from March 2006 until April 2007, when she finally lost to Natalie Grinham in the final of the 2007
Seoul Open. David has also obtained the WSA Player of the Year on seven occasions, 2005–2010 and
2012.
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