{{Short description|English squash player (born 1992)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox squash player | name = Nathan Lake | image = | image_size = | caption = | University = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1992|07|03|df=y}} | birth_place = Cheltenham, England | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | turnedpro = | retired = Active | plays = | coach = | racquet = | website = | event = | years_active = | highest_ranking = No. 22 | date_of_highest_ranking = March 2024 | current_ranking = No. 43 | date_of_current_ranking = 14 July 2025 | titles = | finals = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's squash}} {{MedalCountry|{{ENG}}}} {{MedalCompetition | World Team Championships}} {{MedalSilver | 2024 Hong Kong | Team}} {{MedalCompetition | European Team Championships}} {{MedalGold | 2022 Eindhoven | Team}} }} '''Nathan Lake''' (born 3 July 1992) is an English professional squash player.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://psaworldtour.com/players/view/2597|title=Nathan Lake - Professional Squash Association|website=psaworldtour.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.squashinfo.com/player/3870-nathan-lake|title=Squash Info | Nathan Lake | Squash|website=www.squashinfo.com}}</ref> He reached a career high ranking of 22 in the world during March 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.squashinfo.com/player/3870-nathan-lake |title=Profile and world ranking |website=Squash Info |access-date=6 February 2025 }}</ref>
== Career == Lake first joined the PSA Tour in 2010 and won his first title in 2015, when he won the Keith Grainger Memorial Open.<ref name=SI>{{cite web |url=https://www.squashinfo.com/player/3870-nathan-lake |title=Nathan Lake profile |website=Squash Info |access-date=4 May 2023}}</ref><ref name=PSA>{{cite web |url=https://www.psaworldtour.com/view-player/player/nathan-lake/ |title=Nathan Lake profile |website=PSA Tour |access-date=4 May 2023}}</ref>
By 2013 he had reached the world's top 100 players and later won the Jersey Squash Classic, Novum Energy Texas Open Squash Championships, E.M. Noll Classic and the Qualico Manitoba Open.<ref name=PSA/>
In 2021, he won the T.H. Quinn Cincinnati Queen City Open and the Wakefield PSA and in 2022 won the Nash Cup. In September 2022, he hit a career best world ranking (at the time) of 33.<ref name=SI/> He was a member of the England team that won the European Squash Team Championships in 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://euroteamsquash.com/etc-2022-finals-day |title=England claim the Double in Eindhoven |website=Euro team Squash |date=30 April 2022 |access-date=1 June 2025}}</ref>
In August 2024, Lake won his 9th PSA title after securing victory in the White Bear Challenge during the 2024–25 PSA Squash Tour.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.squashinfo.com/events/10595-mens-white-bear-challenge-2024 |title=$6,000 Men's Out East White Bear Challenge 2024, Southampton Youth Services Inc, North Sea, NY, USA |website=Squash Info |access-date=8 February 2025 }}</ref> In December 2024, Lake won a silver medal with England, at the 2024 Men's World Team Squash Championships in Hong Kong.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldsquash.org/egypt-complete-historic-clean-sweep-of-wsf-world-squash-team-championship-titles/ |title=Egypt complete historic clean sweep of WSF World Squash Team Championship titles |website=World Squash | date=18 December 2024 |access-date=19 December 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.egyptindependent.com/egypts-squash-team-defeats-england-and-wins-world-championship-title/ |title=Egypt's squash team defeats England and wins World Championship title | date=17 December 2024 |website=Egypt Independent |access-date=19 December 2024 }}</ref>
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