ISDA Squash Tour 2010

Raj Nanda

Nationality: Australian

Resides: Rye NY

Birthday: 2008-05-08

Occupation: Squash professional

Preferred wall: Right

Three times a quarterfinalist last season, his first on the ISDA tour, this slender and versatile young Australian attained that status with Joe Pentland in St. Louis and Boston (where they won an exciting five-game match over Doug Lifford and Pat Malloy) and with compatriot Mark Price this past May in the season-ending Worlds in San Francisco, where they defeated Scotland torch-bearers Alan Clyne and Stuart Crawford. In addition to Pentland and Price, Nanda also partnered Alex Langerhorst in Greenwich and Ben Howell in Brooklyn, where they lost a close 3-3 marathon to the heavily favored Jonny Smith and Chris Walker. Nanda’s success in California with Price caused the pair to decide to join up on a more permanent basis at the outset of the current campaign, during which they have already registered both a solid win over Eric Vlcek and Yvain Badan at the Briggs Cup (whose Karlen Cup pro-am competition Nanda also won with former Princeton standout Bill Ullman of the host Apawamis Club) and a tournament-winning effort at the Challenger event in St. Louis, where in the final against Tom Harrity and Imran Khan, Nanda delivered the match-ending winner at 14-13 in the close-out third game with a blast up the middle that left his opponents flat-footed as it sped in between them and died at the back wall.

Career highlights

• 2009 represented Australia World Team Doubles championships

ISDA highlights

• 2009 Racquet Club of St. Louis Challenger champion