birth_place highest_ranking birth_date residence article_title name turnedpro date_of_highest_ranking
sydney 2 13 october 1967 gold coast danielle drady-harte
 danielle drady-harte 1987 1991
danielle drady-harte

danielle drady -lrb- born 13 october 1967 , in sydney , new south wales -rrb- is a former professional squash player from australia , who was ranked the world no. 2 woman player in 1991 .
drady became interested in the sport as a young child when she started tagging along with her mother to her twice-weekly social squash gatherings at a local club .
she won the queensland under-12 championship in 1978 , and then went on to claim state and national championships and an under-19 world team crown in her junior years .
drady turned professional in 1987 , and began to steadily climb the world rankings .
her relationship with one of the top men 's players , rodney martin , also attracted attention in the late-1980s and early-1990s .
having reached the no. 2 ranking in 1991 , the world no. 1 spot appeared to be within drady 's reach , but her chances were dashed when she snapped her achilles tendon during a practice match .
the injury required immediate surgery and kept her out of the game for some time .
in a bid to attract attention and sponsorship for drady 's comeback from injury , and to promote the world 's first outdoor squash tournament in 1994 , drady 's manager phil harte -lrb- who she later married -rrb- wrapped her in glad wrap to play her matches outside sydney 's martin place shopping centre in 1994 .
drady played and won the world outdoor pro-am wrapped in plastic , and posed for photographs with a ` for sale ' sign strung around her neck .
this created a great deal of media coverage and sparked debate about the lengths female athletes should and need to go to in order to attract funding and sponsors .
the publicity soon led to drady becoming the most sponsored player in squash for a period .
drady continued to play top-level squash into the late-1990s , but her international career began to take a backseat following her marriage to harte and the birth of her daughter tayla .
