Clive Caldwell (squash player)

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Clive Caldwell is a squash player from Canada. He was one of the leading hardball squash players in North America in the late-1970s and early-1980s. [1]

Caldwell was the first leading professional player to adopt the oversized racquet head, which is now the standard in modern squash. [2]

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References

  1. "Corporate Profile". Cambridge Group of Clubs. Archived from the original on 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. Zug, James (2007). Squash: A History of the Game. Simon and Schuster. p. 195. ISBN   978-1-4165-8483-4.