ISDA Squash Tour 2010

Eric Vlcek

Nationality: American

Resides: Connecticut

Birthday: 2008-05-08

Occupation: Real estate

Preferred wall: Left

This six-time U. S. National Doubles champion (four with Morris Clothier and two with Preston Quick), who has also won the Canadian National Doubles three times, the William White four times and Gold Racquets three times, added yet another trophy to his collection last October when he and Yvain Badan triumphed in Pittsburgh at the first-ever Challenger tournament, thereby jumpstarting Vlcek’s first full season since a left Achilles tendon rupture in January ’07 at the Briggs Cup that threatened to end his career. After a solid collegiate tennis career at the University of Virginia followed by several years of playing in Australia on that sport’s satellite circuit, he began to concentrate on squash doubles upon his return to the U. S. in the early 1990’s and partnered Ben Gould to the final of the Chicago ISDA tour stop (with a comeback five-game semis win over Clive Leach and Todd Binns) in ’04 and (pinch-hitting for an injured Paul Price) to the semis in Sea Island four years later. Still going strong at age 43, Vlcek, who also combined with Whitten Morris to win the Challenger event in Germantown this past March, has a real-estate practice in Connecticut, where he lives with his wife Marie (the 14th-ranked player on the women’s pro doubles tour and the older sister of a former U. S. Intercollegiate Individuals champion) and their two sons.

Career highlights

• 6 time US National Doubles Champion
• 3 time Canadian National Doubles Champion
• 1 time US National Father/Son Century Doubles Champion

ISDA highlights

• 2009 Philadelphia Grand Prix II challenger champion
• 2008 Pittsburgh Cup champion
• 2008 Sea Island semi-finalist