Yusuf Khan, Squash Director
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.

Ayub Khan, Squash Pro
As certified squash professional at the club for the past twenty years, Ayub has coached many promising champions including his sisters Shabana and Latasha. Ayub was the 1985 Pacific Coast Champion and the 1990 Seattle City Champion. After his days at the University of Washington, he was a 1990 US National quarterfinalist.

Shabana Khan, Squash Pro
A certified squash professional at the club for the past seventeen years, Shabana 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.

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