Google Doodle is celebrating unbelievable Pakistani squash player Hashim Khan, generally loved as one of the game’s unsurpassed most noteworthy players.
On this day in 1951, Khan won the British Open Squash Championships impelling him from relative lack of clarity to the status of a universal symbol.
Conceived in 1914, Khan was brought up in Nawakilli, Peshawar, a little town in what was then India. His dad worked at a British officials’ club with squash courts where Khan apprenticed as a ballboy.
Learning the ropes of the game while on his off-hours, Khan played shoeless on the club’s harsh block courts—an early demonstration of his steadiness. By age 28, Khan turned into a squash ace and before long, a national victor of the game.
In the wake of winning three All-of-India titles, the recently free legislature of Pakistan drafted him to speak to the nation at the 1951 British Open.
Khan overwhelmed during his first appearance at the British Open, thought about squash’s big showdown at that point, and proceeded to bring home the amazing prize.
He came back to Pakistan a national legend.
by Google
