Azam Khan (squash player)

Azam Khan was a Pakistani squash player, born on 20 April 1926 in the village of Nawakille near Peshawar into a Pashtun family and died on 28 March 2020. He won the British Open Championships four times, from 1959 to 1962. He first worked as a tennis coach at the officers' club of the Pakistan Air Force, until his older brother Hashim Khan, who went on to win seven British titles, asked him to switch to squash. He became the second best player behind Hashim within six months and was widely considered one of the world's best shot-makers and game strategists. Both brothers had settled in London by 1956.