Yusuf Khan Remembered
by Nick-At-Will


photo Nick at Will

October 13, 2018

Sad news! Long-time squash teaching professional from Pakistan, (living in Seattle), Yusuf Khan passed away this-past Thursday morning. Yusuf was in his early 80's. He suffered a stroke about two-years ago and wasn't doing well since. Yusuf is the father of current Seattle, WA squash professionals Ayub, Azam, Shabana and Latasha Khan. Latasha has earned top honors throughout her career, being the seven-time U.S. National women's champion, the first American to win an individual gold medal at the Pan American Games, holds 10 WSA world tour titles and was the US Olympic Committee Athlete of the Year. Shabana reached a high world ranking of 23 and was the American women's national squash champion in 2001. Yusuf was related to the great Hashim Khan (the U.S. Squash Open champion between 1951 and 1958) by a distant marriage, himself a ten-time all-India champion. He emigrated to Seattle in 1968 as a tennis pro, introduced the international game of squash to the city and built some of the first glass-walled squash-courts in the country. Yusuf was born near Peshawar, a city in Pakistan that borders Afghanistan.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN372nGGZHE