Benjamin Richard Edwin Cawston, known as Ben Cawston, is a racquets player currently ranked number one in the world as of March 2022 [update] , along with champion of the world as of April 2023 [update] . [1]
Cawston is a two-time U.S. Open Singles Champion (2022, 2020). Cawston is the current Invitational Singles Champion (World's Top 8 players event), an event he also won in 2019. Cawston is the current holder of the Western Open Singles (Chicago) and the Manchester Gold Racket Singles and Doubles. [2] He is the youngest player in history to be ranked number one in the world and also have a challenge for the world championship (November 2022). [3]
At 18 years old, Cawston previously was the youngest player in history to win the British Amateur Singles Championship in 2017 and played at the Queens Club, a tournament dating back to 1888. [4] [5]