Linda Elriani

Linda Elriani
(née Charman)

Personal information
Nationality	British (English)
Born	(1971-11-21) 21 November 1971 Eastbourne, England
Sport
Turned pro	1990
Retired	2006
Racquet used	Karakal
Women's singles
Highest ranking	No. 3 (January 2000)
Medal record Women's squash Representing Great Britain World Games 2005 Duisburg Singles Representing England World Championships 2001 Melbourne Singles 2002 Doha Singles World Team Championships 2000 Sheffield Team 1996 Petaling Jaya Team 1998 Stuttgart Team 2002 Odense Team 2004 Amsterdam Team Commonwealth Games 2002 Manchester Doubles European Team Championships 1997 Odense Team 1998 Helsinki Team 2000 Vienna Team 2001 Eindhoven Team 2002 Böblingen Team 2003 Nottingham Team 2004 Rennes Team 2005 Amsterdam Team 2006 Vienna Team

Linda Elriani (née Charman; born 21 November 1971) is a squash coach and former professional squash player from England. She reached a career high ranking of 3 in the world during January 2000.

Biography

As a player, Charman turned professional in 1990. She appeared in 32 professional tour finals, winning 15 titles. She also won the British National Championship title in 2005. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 3 in 2000 and was the captain of the England team which won the World Team Squash Championships in 2000.

Charman represented the 1998 England team at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she competed in the women's singles and doubles. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, she won a bronze medal for the 2002 England team in the women's doubles, partnering Fiona Geaves.

Elriani won nine gold medals for the England women's national squash team at the European Squash Team Championships from 1997 to 2006. She won two of them under the name Linda Charman-Smith (2001 and 2002) and the final two wins were played under her married name of Linda Elriani.

Elriani retired from the professional tour in 2006.

She is married to the French squash player Laurent Elriani. Laurent was honored as the United States Olympic Committee National Coach of the Year in 2017, for coaching an incredible quartet of young squash players, which included the reigning U19 and U17 boy's champions and the number 1 ranked U19 and U17 boys. Laurent has been a lead coach on the US Squash annual trip to the British Junior Open.

World Team Championships

Finals: 5 (1 title, 4 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Location	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1996 Women's World Team Squash Championships	Petaling Jaya, Malaysia	Australia	2-1
Runner-up	1998 Women's World Team Squash Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	Australia	3-0
Winner	2000 Women's World Team Squash Championships	Sheffield, England	Australia	2-1
Runner-up	2002 Women's World Team Squash Championships	Odense, Denmark	Australia	2-1
Runner-up	2004 Women's World Team Squash Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Australia	2-0

See also

• Official Women's Squash World Ranking

External links

• Linda Elriani at Squash Info
• Deprecated link at archive.today (archived February 3, 2013)
• Page at Squashpics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived March 3, 2007)
• Article at Squashtalk.com (2005) at the Wayback Machine (archived September 8, 2006)
• Article at Squashtalk.com (2006) at the Wayback Machine (archived March 10, 2007)
• Article at Squashplayer.co.uk (2006)
• SquashSite article on Linda's retirement (2006)
• Linda Elriani at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
• Linda Elriani at the World Games