Alex Noakes
Alex Noakes is a professional squash player from Thame, Oxfordshire. Noakes represented England in competition against Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the Home Internationals and achieved a World Junior Ranking of No. 9.
Noakes won the 21st edition of the Italian Open 2013 and reached the Semi-Final of the Portuguese Open that same year.
Noakes has a career-high world rank of No. 127.
Personal life
Noakes, the youngest of Christopher and Nicola Noakes' three children, is a former squash player. At the age of nine, his father took him to their neighbourhood squash club in Thame where he learned the game. In 2009, Noakes won a scholarship to Wellington College and was subsequently coached from 2009 to 2014 by former world ranked No. 11 Stephen Meads, the schools head coach.In 2016, Noakes began training with Victor Montserrat of the Barcelona Global Squash Academy and currently resides and trains full-time in central Barcelona.