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He was born Peter Savage Martin on Dec. 28, 1946 and graduated from McGill with an arts degree in 1969, followed by a law degree in 1973.

He played for the varsity squash team from 1965 to 1968 and with the tennis team from 1967 to 1969. Martin was a three-time Molson trophy recipient as intercollegiate squash champion of the Ontario University Athletics Association and as the team's top seed from 1965 to 1968, helped McGill capture four consecutive OUAA team championships. He received the prestigious Forbes trophy in 1968 as McGill's male athlete of the year.

Martin twice captured the Canadian junior squash title (1966, 1967), was the top seed on the Canadian team that captured the USA open team title in 1967. The following year, he was a finalist in men's singles at the U.S. Open Championships, losing the gold medal match to Colin Adair, who was later inducted to the McGill Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.

While working towards his law degree, Martin played for the Canadian national team at World Team Championship in New Zealand (1971) and was a three-time Canadian doubles champion (1971-73). He was a Canadian singles finalist in 1971 and a two-time doubles finalist at the USA championships (1971, 1972). He later captured the U.S. doubles title in 1985.