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|updated = July, 2015 }} Datuk Nicol Ann David (born 26 August 1983) is a Malaysian female professional squash player, currently ranked world number 2. Beginning in August 2006, David was the world number one for a record-breaking 108 consecutive months, finally ceding the ranking in July 2015 to Raneem El Weleily. She has won the World Open title a record 8 times in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014, as well as the British Open title in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012 and 2014. 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 one of the greatest women's squash players of all time,〔http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/squash/22526762〕〔http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/james-willstrop/nicol-david-is-world-champion-again_b_2433730.html〕〔http://www.worldsquash.org/ws/news/6725〕 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. == Personal life == Born in Penang, David is the daughter of Ann Marie David, a retired Malaysian Chinese school teacher, and Desmond David, a Malaysian Indian engineer,〔 who is also a former state athlete and footballer.〔〔 〕 She has two sisters, Lianne and Cheryl,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Get to know Nicol David ) 〕 both of whom are accomplished squash players at the national level. As a youngster, mathematics was David's best subject at school;〔 she dreamed of one day becoming an engineer.〔 Her primary education was at Sekolah Kebangsaan Convent Green Lane (Convent Green Lane Primary School). David scored seven A's for her Penilaian Menengah Rendah and obtained seven A's in her Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (the equivalent to GCSE), which she studied at Convent Green Lane Secondary School in Green Lane, Penang.〔〔http://www.azuanzahdi.com/nicol/index.php/2009/10/nicol-david-arena-court-naming-ceremony/〕 She was raised a Roman Catholic. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicol David」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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