Career
She reached a career-high world ranking of World Number. Naudé"s international squash career began in 1996. Her world ranking after her first year was Number.
53.
She climbed up the rankings to Number. 36 two years later, but her rankings then fell to a career low of Number. 86 on May 2000. Her ranking rose again to Number.
25 in late 2001, and she reached Number.
20 a year later. 13 four years later, in January 2006. Naudé reached her first final in an international tournament in 1999 in the Danish Open, but she was subsequently defeated by Pamela Nimmo.
She then had to wait for two years for her second title, this time in the Swiss Open, beating Laura-Jane Lengthorn in the final. Naudé then lost to former world Number.
1 Vanessa Atkinson in the final of Mexican Open.
Naudé grew up in South Africa before moving to the Netherlands. She was based at Kempton Park Country Club, and was coached in her early days by Phillip Schelbusch and Jean Grainger, which took her to national titles at various junior levels before she moved to Amsterdam and eventually took on Dutch nationality and become a fixture in their national team Annelize is currently busy following her other passion in life, music
Since retiring from squash at the end of 2010, she is a qualified audio engineer and well established dj.
Follow her on: www.annelizenaude.com.
