Tegwen Malik

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Tegwen Malik
CountryFlag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales
Residence Swansea, Wales
Born (1975-01-21) 21 January 1975 (age 49)
London, England
Turned Pro1994
PlaysRight Handed
Coached by Chris Robertson & Adrian Davies
Racquet usedGrays & Karakal
Women's singles
Highest rankingWorld No. 16

Welsh No. 1 (January 2000 (World ranking for the second time)

Welsh Ladies Champion in 1992 (Youngest ever))
Last updated: December 2021.

Tegwen Malik (born 21 January 1975, in London) is a professional squash player who represented Wales. At 17, she was the youngest ever winner of the Welsh Senior Closed. [1] She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 16 in January 2000. [2] [3] She often competed in the top men's leagues in Wales and as the number one player in the Professional Bundelsleague in Germany. She was a well-respected player on the professional tour and was often admired for her athletic abilities on the court.

During her career as an Elite Cymru Athlete she suffered a serious illness that many thought would end her professional career as an athlete. However, after nearly three years off the professional squash circuit she made an amazing recovery and clawed her world ranking back from last in the women’s world squash rankings to world number 16. Tegwen’s first tournament back on the professional circuit was the Washington Open (that was played in Seattle). Due to a long period off the squash circuit, she had to come through qualifying rounds to reach the main draw. She amazed those who thought it not possible to play at such a world level after being so unwell by winning the tournament final in straight sets to Latasha Khan (who reached a career high of world ranked 18). Tegwen subsequently went on to compete in the well respected Monte Carlo Classic, beating several top world ranked players to reach the semi-finals. [4] [5]

Tegwen has won several professional tournaments such as the Savcour Finnish Open, [6] the Washington Open, Toulouse Open, Welsh Open and Iceland Open. During her glittering squash career she also represented Wales at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne [7] (singles and doubles), at world and European Team championships, home internationals and during different test series such as Wales verses South Africa. Tegwen often paired with Gavin Jones for mixed doubles events, winning a test series against the National Irish team in Belfast before going out to compete in the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth games where they narrowly lost in the quarter-finals to the Australian mixed doubles pair (Natalie Grinham and Joseph Kneipp) who went on to win the gold. [8]

Off the squash court, Tegwen studied physics at Bristol University and went on to work in the field of medical physics as a researcher before doing her PhD in biomimicry. She has published several articles [ 9, 10] in peer reviewed journals in this field and was invited to give a guest talk on this research at MIT. Tegwen subsequently went on to work for Lifescaped, a company specialising in the field of biomimicry before taking up a permanent position, lecturing at Swansea University in the areas on business analytics and international standards. During this time, Tegwen has co-authored a book on International Standards 11 and brings this content into her teaching around ISO and BSI standards.

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  2. ↑ WISPA player profile
  3. ↑ SquashInfo Player Profile
  4. ↑ "Sport in Brief". ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  5. ↑ "GRAPEVINE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW". www.squashplayer.co.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  6. ↑ "Savcor Finnish". www.squashplayer.co.uk. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  7. ↑ "M2006 > Athletes > Display". m2006.thecgf.com. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  8. ↑ "M2006 > Athletes > Display". m2006.thecgf.com. Retrieved 31 December 2021.

Squash at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

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[10] https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/10/3/036005

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