Diehl Mateer

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George Diehl Mateer Jr. (born June 4, 1928) is an American hardball squash player. He was one of the leading squash players in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. He is the only amateur player to have won 2 US Open squash titles (in 1955 and 1959). He also won 3 US national singles titles between 1954 and 1960, and a record 11 US national doubles titles between 1949 and 1966. He was runner-up at the US national doubles championship on 9 further occasions (3 of those times with his his son Gil – his boys Gil and Drew won 5 national titles in all, including once together in 1986). Diehl also won 2 intercollegiate titles.

Mateer was inducted into the United States Squash Racquets Association Hall of Fame in 2000, the initial year. He is also a member of the US Intercollegiate Hall of Fame, the Episcopal Academy Hall of Fame and the Maryland Squash Hall of Fame.