ISDA Squash Tour 2012

Yvain Badan

Nationality: Swiss

Resides: Rye NY

Birthday: 1981-08-07

Occupation: Squash professional Apawamis Club

Preferred wall: Right

This 2000 Under-19 Swiss National Singles champion,who later played a major role in Trinity College’s Potter Cup (emblematic ofthe U. S. National Collegiate Team champion) titles from 2003-06, has showna penchant for beginning his partnerships with former Trinity teammates witha bang: in his first appearance with Bantam co-alumnus Jonny Smith in thefall of 2009, they barged to and almost through the U. S. Pro final, leadingChris Walker and Mark Chaloner two-love and later 10-6 in the fourth beforelosing on simultaneous-championship-point, and in his debut performance thispast November with 2009 Trinity co-captain Manek Mathur, they stunned CliveLeach and Matt Jenson in the first round, then out-played Raj Nanda and PaulPrice in the semis. It was the first career advance to an ISDA full-rankingfinal for Badan, who did team with Eric Vlcek to win the ’08 Pittsburgh Cup,a Challenger event, by defeating James Hewitt and Mark Chaloner in thefinal. Badan and Mathur subsequently qualified into the Big Apple Open (withan exciting 3-2 win over Joe Pentland and Steve Scharff), captured theBuffalo Challenger with a four-game final over Hewitt and Chris Deratnay andqualified into the Philly Pro event as well. The two recent Trinity Collegegraduates, both currently based at the Apawamis Club in Rye, have become forsure the hottest new team on the circuit and, with the “surprise” factor nolonger present after their four consecutive praiseworthy results, it will beinteresting to see if they can consolidate these early gains as thewinter/spring portion of the season moves forward. 
 

Career highlights

• Swiss National Champion U19 (2000)
• 9th place World Championship with Team Switzerland (2000)
• 4 time National Champion with Trinity College (2002-2006)

ISDA highlights

• 2009 US Pro Challenger finalist
• 2008 Pittsburgh Cup champion