ISDA Squash Tour 2012

Raj Nanda

Nationality: Australian

Resides: Rye NY

Birthday: 1977-12-21

Occupation: Squash professional

Preferred wall: Right

A solid autumn 2010 saw this slender Australian (one ofsix in the ISDA top-20, the most of ant country) currently based inWestchester combine with  Jonny Smith to both win the season-openingPittsburgh Cup Challenger tournament in their debut performance as partnersand then reach the Big Apple Open semis with a quarterfinal win over Markand Paul Price, with whom Nanda partnered up in St. Louis in a march to thesemis that featured a 3-0 win over Mark Chaloner and Chris Walker. Thoseresults both came with Nanda playing the right wall (as did his advance withJoe Pentland to the Boston quarters with their win over Pat Malloy and DougLifford), whereas he was on the left during autumn of 2009 when he and MarkPrice both first defeated Eric Vlcek and Yvain Badan in a Briggs Cup roundof 16 and then earned the St. Louis Challenger title with a final-round winover Tom Harrity and Imran Khan.

Career highlights

• 2009 represented Australia World Team Doubles championships

ISDA highlights

• 2009 Racquet Club of St. Louis Challenger champion