SquashTalk>
Features >Player Profiles >WISPA
Players > Cassie Campion (ENG)
SquashTalk Player Profiles
Profile Index
PSA players
WISPA players
Hall of fame players
College players
Junior players
Teaching pros
Cassie Campion, World
Champion and Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist
Profiled by Ron Beck, April2002
copyright © 2002, Photos by Squashtalk except where noted, ©
Squashtalk. Reproduction prohibited.
SQUASHTALK
TODAY
WISPA
Vassar
NAO
Doubles
WISPA Greenwich CT
WISPA Rye NY
RECENT
EVENTS
Junior
Mens Worlds
Men's World Open
US 5
Man Teams
Weymuller
US Open
CURRENT
CONTENT
Hall of Fame
News Index
Club Links
Gear Links
E-boast Newsletter
(sign up now free)
Cassie Campion.
Born: North Walsham, UK
Resides: Norwich, UK
Age:
29.
WISPA ranking: 4
Highest ranking: 1
 |
| Cassie at the 2000 British Open, prior to her back injury |
Cassie Campion (nee Jackman), winner of 20 WISPA Tour titles held the Number One World Ranking throughout much of 2000.
In late 2000 she was diagnosed with a back problem requiring lower back surgery, and she spent much of 2001 recovering her health and then stamina.
Cassie Campion won the World Junior Women's crown in 1991 and immediately graduated to the world pro tour, where she held a top ten ranking from 1993 through 2000 inclusive, reaching #2 briefily in 1993 before finally ascending to world #1 in 2000.
Cassie has always been dogged by comparisons with her peerless Australian comtemporaries, first Michelle Martin and then Sarah Fitz-Gerald.
In 1999, she finally achieved her greatest win - vanquishing Michelle Martin in the World Open finals in Seattle and following that up a week later by beating Martin again in the US Open. The luster of those wins were slightly diminshed by Sarah Fitz-Gerald's absence and then greater disappointment followed when the highly-favored Campion fell prey to inconsistency in the British Open Final of 1999 against New Zealand's Leilani Joyce. It has been Campion's only appearance in the British Open Final, and she has never won that coveted title.
 |
| Cassie at the 99 British Open |
Campion exhibited in that British Open Final a tendancy to rush her game and play overly aggressive, low-percentage squash at critical junctures. It has been a stylistic tendancy she has been tagged with throughout her career. Campion is highly athletic, highly mobile and a dangerous attacking player. Campion's game is marked by fluidity, deception and mastery of the change of pace. On the all-important mental front, she appears often outduelled by Fitz-Gerald, Owens, and even Joyce.
Campion gained revenge over Joyce after the British Open loss by beating her twice in early 2000 in tour stops in the USA. Campion has never shrunk from her rivalry with Sarah Fitz-Gerald, and has played a continuing series of "World Champion Challenge" exhibitions against Fitz-Gerald. She has never fared well in those one-on-one contests, however.
 |
| Cassie wins in Malaysia, her first crown after returning to the tour |
Campion has always enjoyed unusual success in North American venues, scoring a full thirteen of her twenty tour titles in the United States
Campion is now on a mission to regain her top position, a quest made more difficult by her defeat in Heliopolis to the resurgant Natalie Grainger. Campion has clearly established her full recovery from her back surgery and her mastery of all players not named Fitz-Gerald, Owens, or Grainger. She now looks forward to the British Open 2002 and the upcoming Commonwealth Games as key milestones in her decade-long pro career.
  |
| Campion at home in England (British Open, left, British Nationals right photos by Stephen Line © ) |
You can reach Rob Dinerman by email at Email: rob@squashtalk.com
SquashTalk women's news and information
Women's World
Open
WISPA USA May 02
WISPA Grand Prix 02
British
Open 02
Hurghada 02
Heliopolis 02
Texas
Open 02
Weymuller
02
Hartford
02
Melbourne
01
Qatar Classic
01
Heliopolis
01
Cathay
Pacific 01
WISPA
Munich Open
WISPA players
Women's Squash Videos
Sarah Fitz-Gerald Columns
Camps 2002
Rankings
Upcoming Tournaments
Squashtalk.com
All materials © 1999-2003. Communicate with us at info@squashtalk.com.
Published
by Squashtalk LLC, 95 Martha's Point Rd. Concord MA 01742 USA, Editor and Publisher
Ron Beck,
Graphics editor Debra Tessier Send
comments, ideas, contributions and feedback to the webmaster.
Copyright © 1999-2003 SquashTalk, all rights reserved, may not be reproduced
in any form except for one-time personal use.
