Yusuf Khan, the club’s squash director, holds many squash titles, has produced numerous champions and promoted the game throughout the world. In 1957, Yusuf was ranked number three in the world. Consecutively from 1958-68, he was the Professional Squash Champion of India. There he produced Anil Nayar who was the first Indian junior to win the British Drysdale Cup, two national intercollegiate championships at Harvard and other national and Canadian titles. At the request of the Seattle Tennis Club in 1968 he moved to Seattle. In 1970, he won the inaugural Boston Open. From 1971-1975, he was ranked third in the world of North American Squash. Other titles from 1978 through 1990 include Professional Veterans Champion, World Masters singles and doubles champion, Senior Professional Squash Champion and 50+ Canadian Open Doubles Champion.
In 1975 he built the first softball court in the United States upon which the first Seattle Open tournament was held in 1984. In 1986 he built four softball courts at the Seattle Athletic Club. In 1988 the addition of the glasswall showcased Seattle’s first Professional Rolex US Open headlined by Jahangir Khan. In 1989, he hosted the Seattle’s first Rolex National Softball championship. When the US switched to softball in 1995, three more courts were added and the club welcomed its second nationals. In 1998, he held Seattle’s first Women’s International Professional tournament “Squash for Breast Cancer.” In 1999, the club welcomed the first US Women’s World Open Championship played on a four-wall glass court in the basketball area. Both Khan sisters competed. In 2001 and 2004 he hosted the US Nationals and US Skill Level Championships. In 2006 the club welcomed boys and girls from around the world to the US Junior Open. Yusuf’s student Vidya Rajan won the Girls 15. Under Yusuf’s coaching, Mark Alger, Hugh Labossier, Sue Clinch, Shabana and Latasha Khan clinched A/Open National titles. Many others received national age group and skill level titles as well as local and regional championships.
A certified squash professional at the club for the past seventeen years, she has been ranked as high as #23 in Women’s World Professional Squash. Her titles include US Women’s Open champion, US Women’s Skill Level 6.0 champion, U. S. Open Champion, US Softball Open Doubles champion, Pan Am Federation Cup gold team member, two-time Pan Am Games silver medalist, Women’s Howe Cup A/Open team champion and four-time national junior girls champion. She represented the United States as a member of two world junior teams, five women’s world teams and two world softball doubles teams including the inaugural event in 1997.
In 2003, the club hosted the Women’s Howe Cup including an inaugural Women’s D event. Seattle teams won the B, C, and D events. Also, she is a University of Washington graduate and coach of the 2005-06 USSRA National Girls team.
Zarak Khan is not only a former #8 World Ranked professional squash player, but has demonstrated his extraordinary ability in squash both as a player and as a squash coach over the past 30 years. His credentials include: Gold Medal Winner (Pakistan National Team) in the World Team Championships in 1994, a Team Gold (Pakistan National Team) and an Individual Gold in the Asian Squash Championships in 1994 and 1998, and an individual Gold Medal Winner in the 1998 Asian Games.
Zarak is an Elite level adult and junior high performance squash coach with Team Gold win as the Coach for the Pakistan National Team in the 2002 Asian Squash Championship, and Gold and Silver individual wins for the Pakistan National Team Junior Squad at the British Junior Championship in 2007 and the ASF Junior Championship in 2008. Many players he has coached have played in the top #100 of PSA World Tour rankings.
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