World champ to bow out

EIGHT-TIME world champion Nicol David has announced she will retire at the end of the 2018-19 squash season, bringing down the curtain on the Malaysian’s illustrious career.

The 35-year-old is the most successful woman player of all time and spent an unprecedented nine years as world No. 1 from 2006-2015.

David said she had thought long and hard about calling it a day.

“This decision has been thought through for quite some time,” David said in a website post yesterday.