Benjamin Cawston

Benjamin Richard Edwin "Ben" Cawston is a racquets player currently ranked number one in the world , along with champion of the world . Cawston also plays professional pickleball.

Tournaments Cawston is a two-time U.S. Open Singles Champion (2022, 2020). Cawston is the current Invitational Singles Champion (World's Top 8 players event), an event he also won in 2019. Cawston is the current holder of the Western Open Singles (Chicago) and the Manchester Gold Racket Singles and Doubles. He is the youngest player in history to be ranked number one in the world and also have a challenge for the world championship (November 2022).

At 18 years old, Cawston previously was the youngest player in history to win the British Amateur Singles Championship in 2017 and played at the Queens Club, a tournament dating back to 1888.

Controversies Educated at Westgate Comprehensive School in Winchester, Cawston became the first state-educated pupil to win a national public school title, winning the under-15 singles win at Queen's Club in 2014. Despite this, Cawston was not allowed to compete in the doubles tournament after professional players who were from private schools voted to exclude state school players.