Gina Kennedy interview: Meteoric rise has everyone ‘gunning for’ squash star at the Commonwealth Games

I’m the one with a target on my back now, says Gina Kennedy

(Picture: Photo Credit: Sam Mellish / Team England)

Back in February, two supremely talented racquet stars were made life members of the Parklangley Club in Beckenham.

One will be familiar: tennis’ golden girl, the US Open champion and the darling of British sport, Emma Raducanu; the other perhaps less so, a squash player by the name of Gina Kennedy, whose rise has been almost as meteoric, soaring from outside the world’s top-150 to inside its top-10 in only a year, now among the favourites for gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.