Major honours
An unusual case of a thin talent pool producing two world number ones in a single generation. The Scottish Squash Rackets Association was founded in 1936, and in the late 1990s Peter Nicol rose to the center of the sport. Nicol became the first British-born world number one in 1998, and that same year won Commonwealth Games men's singles gold in Kuala Lumpur before beating Ahmed Barada 3-0 on the glass court in front of the Pyramids in Giza in 1999 to become world champion. He switched allegiance to England in 2001, and Scotland's program never filled the gap. John White, born in Australia but competing for Scotland, was rated the hardest hitter of his era and reached world number one in 2004, while Martin Heath reached the World Championship semifinal in 1999. Scotland has never won a World Team Championship title, but has consistently contended for Commonwealth Games medals.
Record comparison
Bars are scaled to the strongest team in this list.
Club legends
Rivalry
The sport's biggest box-office fixture of that era was Nicol against Canada's Jonathon Power. The two met in successive World Championship finals in 1997 and 1998, and their contrasting styles and open dislike for each other made squash newsworthy again for the first time in years.