ISDA Squash Tour 2010

Chris Walker

Nationality: English

Resides: Greenwich, CT

Birthday: 1967-06-11

Occupation: Squash entrepreneur and coach

Preferred wall: Left

Perhaps statistically the most accomplished PSA performer currently on the ISDA tour, this southpaw fitness specialist and former PSA top-four is a three-time European champion, a seven-time captain (with more than 70 “caps”) of English national teams, two of which won the World Team Championships (in ’97 in Malaysia, Walker defeated Canada’s Gary Waite in the deciding match of the final), a two-time Commonwealth Games bronze-medal winner and (with Mark Cairns in the late 1990’s) a World (softball) Doubles champion. He reached eight ranking-tournament ISDA finals (winning the Cleveland ’06 and Denver ’07 tourneys) during two mid-2000’s years as Viktor Berg’s partner and had an impressive first half of the 2007-08 campaign with Clive Leach that netted them consecutive season-opening titles in St. Louis and Baltimore, followed soon thereafter by runner-up finishes in Toronto, Chicago and Boston. Now 42 but still as fleet and well-conditioned as ever, this film and theatre buff has expanded his squash involvement in recent years to include coaching the USA men’s team and co-owning a squash club in San Diego, where in 2006 he founded a youth-enrichment group, Surf City Squash, that serves under-privileged youngsters with squash instruction, academic tutoring and community service. His outstanding autumn 2009 has been highlighted by a final-round advance with Leach in Toronto and a winning performance with new partner Mark Chaloner in Wilmington, where on simultaneous-championship-point Walker himself emphatically decided the issue with a razor-sharp forehand reverse-corner winner.

Career highlights

• Highest world PSA ranking of #4
• 3 time World Team Champion
• Ranked #1 England
• 3 time European Champion
• 2 time Bronze medalist Doubles Commonwealth Games
• British Open finalist (first player to reach finals from qualifying round)

ISDA highlights

• 2009 Racquet Club of St. Louis Challenger champion
• 2009 Jim Bentley Cup finalist
• 2007 Racquet Club of St. Louis Open champion
• 2007 Maryland Club Open champion
• 2007 Hashim Khan Championships champion
• 2007, 2005 Tavern Club champion
• 2006 Kellner Cup finalist