Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (squash player)
Full name | Miguel Ángel Rodríguez |
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Nickname(s) | The Cannonball |
Country | Colombia |
Born | Bogotá, Colombia | December 20, 1985
Residence | Bogotá, Colombia |
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) |
Turned pro | 2005 |
Retired | Active |
Plays | Right Handed |
Coached by | Ángel Rodríguez, Sardar Ali Khan, David Palmer |
Racquet used | Tecnifibre Carboflex 125 S |
Men's singles | |
Highest ranking | No. 4 (April, 2015) |
Current ranking | No. 5 (January, 2016) |
Title(s) | 26 |
Tour final(s) | 36 |
World Open | QF (2015) |
Medal record | |
Updated on January, 2016. |
Miguel Angel Rodriguez ["Migue", "Miguelon", "A-Rod"] (born December 20, 1985 in Bogotá) is a professional male squash player who represents Colombia. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 5 in April 2015. Miguel was ranked fourth as of June 1st [1]
Career overview
Rodríguez won two times the Colombian Open in 2008 and 2010, and was runner-up in 2006 and 2012. Rodriguez won the Pan American Games in 2015
In September, he became the highest-ranked South American of all-time, exceeding then Federico Usandizaga of Argentina.
In 2013, he won the Bluenose Classic in Halifax in Canada in March and was bronze medalist of the World Games in Cali. He also won gold at the 2015 pan-am games in Toronto for single mens.
Early Life
Rodriguez was brought up in Bogota Colombia.
References
External links
- Miguel Ángel Rodriguez | Official Website
- Miguel Ángel Rodríguez at the Professional Squash Association (archived)
- Miguel Ángel Rodríguez at Squash Info
Template:Top ten male squash players from the Americas
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Colombian squash players
- Sportspeople from Bogotá
- Pan American Games competitors for Colombia
- Squash players at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Squash players at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Squash players at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Colombian sportspeople stubs
- Squash biography stubs