Joelle King

Joelle King

Country	New Zealand
Born	(1988-09-30) 30 September 1988 (age 36) Cambridge, New Zealand
Residence	Cambridge, New Zealand
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Turned pro	2004
Retired	Active
Plays	Right-handed
Coached by	Glen Wilson, Hadrian Stiff
Racquet used	Head
Website	www.joelleking.com
Women's singles
Highest ranking	No. 4 (November 2022)
Current ranking	No. 4 (December 2022)
Title(s)	11
Tour final(s)	20
Medal record Women's squash Representing  New Zealand World Championships 2023 Chicago Singles World Doubles Championships 2016 Darwin Doubles 2016 Darwin Mixed doubles 2017 Manchester Doubles 2017 Manchester Mixed doubles Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Doubles 2018 Gold Coast Singles 2018 Gold Coast Doubles 2022 Birmingham Mixed doubles 2022 Birmingham Doubles 2010 Delhi Mixed doubles 2014 Glasgow Singles 2018 Gold Coast Mixed doubles
Updated on 13 April 2022.

Joelle King MNZM (born 30 September 1988) is a New Zealand professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 4 in April 2014.^[1][2]

Early life

King was born and raised in Cambridge, New Zealand. She is the youngest child in her family, having two older brothers. Of Māori descent, she affiliates to Ngāti Porou.^[3]

Career

In July 2009, King won the Australian Women's Open by beating Annie Au in the final played at Clare, South Australia.^[4]

King won gold in women's doubles and silver medal in mixed doubles at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.^[5] She also won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.^[6]

During the 2018 Commonwealth Games, King won the gold medal in the women's singles event for New Zealand.^[7] On the other side, fellow New Zealand squash player, Paul Coll clinched a silver medal in the men's singles event.^[8] This was also the first instance where a male and a female squash player from New Zealand had managed to qualify in the final of the respective events at a Commonwealth Games event.^[9] She won her first platinum event on the WSA tour at the 2018 Hong Kong Squash Open beating Raneem El Weleily 3–0 in the final.^[10]

King was the flagbearer for New Zealand at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 alongside Tom Walsh.^[11]

In May 2023, she reached the semi final of the 2023 PSA Women's World Squash Championship, before losing to the number 2 seed Nour El Sherbini.^[12]

Personal life

On 28 December 2012, King married cricketer Ryan Shutte in Cambridge.^[13] He put his cricket career on hold to become her manager.^[14]

References

1. WISPA player profile
2. Joelle King at Squash Info
3. Tipene-Leach, Oriini (31 July 2014). "Day 7: Update on our Māori athletes in Glasgow". Television New Zealand. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
4. "Squash: King's inner mongrel". The New Zealand Herald. NZPA. 20 July 2009. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
5. Alderson, Andrew (17 August 2010). "Squash: King's queen of doubles". The New Zealand Herald.
6. "Joelle King clinches squash gold against England's Sarah-Jane Perry". Stuff. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
7. "Kiwi King wins, Coll loses Games squash final". ESPN. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
8. @aldersonnotes, Andrew Alderson Sports reporter, NZ Herald andrew alderson@nzherald co nz (7 April 2018). "Squash: Joelle King and Paul Coll into Commonwealth Games singles finals". NZ Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
9. "Commonwealth Games: Joelle King, Paul Coll qualify for squash singles finals". Newshub. 4 September 2018. Archived from the original on 10 April 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
10. "Hong Kong Squash Open". Retrieved 25 November 2018.
11. "Commonwealth Games Birmingham 2022 - Flagbearer Joelle King".
12. "2023 World Championship draws". PSA. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
13. "Joelle King | New Zealand Olympic Team". New Zealand Olympic Team. 9 February 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
14. Millmow, Jonathan (27 May 2011). "Time is on my side says squash star Joelle King". Stuff. Retrieved 28 June 2022.

External links

• Joelle King at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
• Joelle King at WISPA (archived)
• Joelle King at WSA (archived)
• Joelle King at Squash Info