Gordon Anderson (squash player)

{{short description|Canadian squash player}}

Gordon Anderson is a former squash player from Canada. He was one of the leading hardball squash players in North America in the 1970s.{{cite book|last=Zug|first=James|title=Squash: A History of the Game|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MhhGvbWBnxMC&pg=PA278|year=2007|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4165-8483-4|page=278}}

Anderson won the Canadian national squash title three consecutive times in 1973–1975. He was runner-up at the North American Open in 1979.{{Cite web|url=http://www.squash.ca/e/doubles/history_champs/men_womendoubles_09.pdf|title=Canadian National Squash Doubles Champions|last=|first=|date=|website=Squash Canada|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716081605/http://www.squash.ca/e/doubles/history_champs/men_womendoubles_09.pdf|archive-date=2011-07-16|access-date=2019-09-08}} In 2013, Anderson was inducted into the Ontario Squash Hall of Fame.{{cite web | title=Seventeen-time U.S. Champion Gordon Anderson inducted into Ontario Squash Hall of Fame | website=US SQUASH | date=2013-04-05 | url=https://www.ussquash.com/seventeen-time-u-s-champion-gordon-anderson-inducted-into-ontario-squash-hall-of-fame/ | access-date=2019-09-08}}

Since retiring from top-level competition, Anderson has become a squash club owner in Toronto, and founded Anderson Courts and Sports Surfaces Inc., a firm which specializes in installing squash courts.