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Ong Beng Hee began playing squash when he was eight ± at the 17-court club his squash-
enthusiast father had built in Malaysia. He first came to international attention in January 1994
when he won the prestigious British Junior Under-14 Open title in England. A year later he
reached the final of the Under-16 British Open, going one better in January 1996 by winning the
Under-16 title. Later that year, he showed his promise by reaching the semi-finals of the 1996
World Junior Open in Egypt, competing as a 16-year-old in an event in which most fellow
competitors were at least two years older.Coached initially by his father, then the Canadian
Malaysian national coach Jamie Hickox, Beng Hee moved to England in 1997 to work with Neil
Harvey, coach to England's long-time world No 1 Peter Nicol - later moving north to work with
Malcolm Willstrop.[j

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èn January 1998, he became the British Junior Under-19 Open champion, at the age of 17, and
joined a select and distinguished group of squash players who have claimed three British Junior
Open titles. èn August, Beng Hee clinched the World Junior Open title in his second successive
final, beating Egypt¶s Wael El Hindi in the final in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. èn 2001, Beng
Hee reached the quarter-finals of five Super Series events - an achievement which was rewarded
the following year by his debut in the Super Series Finals in London.[j

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èn 2003, Beng Hee made up for the disappointment of a third round exit in the men¶s singles of
the Commonwealth Games in England by winning the silver medal in the Mixed Doubles with
illustrious compatriot Nicol David. 2007 highlights include beating higher-ranked Stewart
Boswell to reach the quarter-finals of the British Open in Manchester - then, later in the year,
repeating his success over the Australian in the Qatar Classic before achieving a second upset
over Egyptian Wael El Hindi to become the only unseeded player to reach the last eight of the
Super Series event in Doha.[j

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Beng Hee consolidated his presence in the middle of the top 20 in 2008 with an appearance in
the final of the Kolkata ènternational in èndia in February. But the biggest boost to his confidence
came in his home country in March when he reached the final of the KL Open for the third time -
but this time beat his new national rival Mohd Azlan èskandar 11±8, 15±13, 12±10 to win the
title for the first time, while also avenging the defeat by his compatriot in the 2006 final. The win
also endorsed his rise above èskandar in the PSA rankings - but later took Beng Hee back into the
world top ten for the first time since December 2003.

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(born 4 February 1980, in Penang, Malaysia) is a professional squash player

from Malaysia.

With four successive Asian Championship titles from 2000-2006; gold medals in both the 2002
and 2006 Asian Games, 11 PSA Tour titles from 19 final appearances, and a career-best world
ranking of No 7, Ong Beng Hee has become Malaysia¶s most successful men squash player of
all-time. èn August 1998, the Penang teenager crowned a glittering junior career in the USA by
becoming the World Junior Champion ± an achievement that made him the first non-Pakistani
Asian to claim the most prestigious junior title.

He began the new millennium outside the top 40. By the end of the year he had won his first
Asian Championship; had become the first Malaysian to qualify for the British Open, then went
on to make the quarter-finals. He had also secured three PSA titles. The third of these was in
Kuala Lumpur where he became the first home winner of the prestigious Malaysian Open. His
sparkling year was rewarded by a leap into the top ten, and a career-best world number 7 ranking
in December 2001.[1÷[2÷

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