event years_active birth_place highest_ranking worldopenresult plays birth_date residence article_title name retired date_of_highest_ranking
men 's singles 16 brisbane , queensland , australia 2 '' ` w '' ' -lrb- 1997 -rrb- right-handed 15 september 1967 gold coast , queensland , australia rodney eyles
 rodney eyles november 2000 november 1995
rodney eyles

rodney eyles -lrb- born 15 september 1967 , brisbane -rrb- is a former professional squash player from australia .
he is best remembered for winning the world open title in 1997 .
an alumnus of st james college -lrb- brisbane -rrb- , eyles joined the professional squash tour as a 16-year-old in may 1984 and was an athlete in the inaugural australian institute of sport squad from 1985 .
he was on the psa world tour for 16 years and held the position of president from 1996-1998 .
he retired in november 2000 at the age of 33 .
his career-high world ranking was world no. 2 .
the pinnacle of his career was reached in 1997 when he became world champion , defeating peter nicol in the final of the world open 15-11 , 15-12 , 15-12 .
eyles attained a wealth of title 's including : world men 's team champion -lrb- 1991 -rrb- , australian open champion -lrb- 1997 -rrb- , australian junior champion , commonwealth games men 's doubles silver medal -lrb- 1998 -rrb- , us open champion -lrb- 1993 and 1996 -rrb- , french open champion , hong kong open champion , hungarian open champion , italian open champion , mahindra open champion , north american open champion , tournament of champions , new york -lrb- champion 1994 & finalist -rrb- , british open -lrb- finalist -rrb- , qatar open -lrb- finalist 3 times -rrb- , pakistan open -lrb- finalist -rrb- as a junior player , eyles was runner-up to jansher khan in the final of the 1986 world junior squash championship .
between 1980 and 1986 , he won four australian junior titles and three queensland junior titles .
he was a member of the australian teams which won the world team squash championships in 1991 and the world junior team championships in 1986 .
he also won a silver medal for australia in the men 's doubles event at the 1998 commonwealth games -lrb- partnering byron davis -rrb- .
after retiring from the tour , he coached up and coming players in italy , hong kong and the usa before returning to the gold coast and establishing the rod eyles squash academy to focus on the development of juniors , seniors and professional squash players .
in 2009 rodney managed the australian men 's team in denmark , was the manager and head coach for the 2010 australian boys junior squash team in ecuador , and the manager of the successful australian squash team at the 2010 commonwealth games in delhi .
in 2010 , rodney joined the squash australia team as an ais consultant coach before becoming the national talent development coach in 2011 .
eyles was inducted into the australian squash hall of fame in 2008 and the queensland squash hall of fame in 2005 .
