Ong Beng Hee
| Full name | Ong Beng Hee |
|---|---|
| Country |
 Malaysia
|
| Residence | Nottingham, England |
| Born |
4 February 1980 Penang, Malaysia |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
| Turned Pro | 1995 |
| Retired | 2015 |
| Plays | Right Handed |
| Coached by | Jamshed Gul |
| Racquet used | Dunlop |
| Highest ranking | No. 7 (December, 2001) |
| Title(s) | 15 |
| Tour final(s) | 24 |
| Last updated on: January 2015. | |
Ong Beng Hee (born 4 February 1980, in Penang, Malaysia) was a professional squash player. Between 2000 and 2006, he won four consecutive Asian Championship titles. In 2002 and 2006 he won gold medals at the Asian Games. He won 11 Professional Squash Association (PSA) Tour titles out of 19 final appearances, and earned a world ranking of No. 7, a career-best. This record of achievements has made him Malaysia's most successful male squash player in history.
He retired in July 2015.
Ong Beng Hee began playing squash when he was eight – at the 17-court club his squash-enthusiast father had built in Malaysia. He first came to international attention in January 1994 when he won the British Junior Under-14 Open title in England. A year later he reached the final of the Under-16 British Open, eventually winning the Under-16 title in January 1996. Later that year, he reached the semi-finals of the 1996 World Junior Open in Egypt, competing as a 16-year-old in an event in which most fellow competitors were at least two years older. Coached initially by his father, then the Canadian Malaysian national coach Jamie Hickox, Beng Hee moved to England in 1997 to work with Neil Harvey, coach to England's long-time world No 1 Peter Nicol – later moving north to work with Malcolm Willstrop.
In January 1998, he became the British Junior Under-19 Open champion, at the age of 17, and joined a select group of squash players who have claimed three British Junior Open titles. In August 1998, Beng Hee clinched the World Junior Open title in his second successive final, beating Egypt’s Wael El Hindi in the final in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. He won the Milo Open in 1999 and 2000. He began the new millennium outside the top 40 but, by the end of the year, he had won his first Asian Championship, had become the first Malaysian to qualify for the British Open, and had gone on to make the quarter-finals. He had also secured three PSA titles, the Mega Italia Open and the Milo Open in April 2000 and, the third of these was in Kuala Lumpur where he became the first home winner of the prestigious Malaysian Open. His year ended with a spot in the top ten, and a career-best world number 7 ranking in December 2001. In 2001, Beng Hee reached the quarter-finals of five Super Series events and was the winner of the Macau Open.
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