ISDA Squash Tour 2012

Willie Hosey

Nationality: Irish

Resides: Toronto, Canada

Birthday: 1961-04-28

Occupation: Squash director Mayfair clubs Toronto

Preferred wall: Either

Thought to have finally left his best squash behind himafter a winless autumn of 2009, this ageless record 10-time Irish nationalchampion who will mark his 50th birthday in April 2011 (making him more thansix years older than anyone else in the ISDA top 20) came up with a heroicsecond half of last season, going 5-0 with new partner Hamed Anvari inround-of-16 play, including saving a total of five match balls against themin the fourth game of a 3-2 Greenwich win over Briggs Cup quarterfinalistsWhitten Morris and Joe Pentland, with Hosey coming up with most of the keywinners at crunch-time. A former PSA No. 17 who also won the ’01 BritishOpen 40-and-over title, Hosey has won four ISDA tournaments over the years(namely the 2000 Cambridge Club Doubles with Jonathon Power, the 2000Heights Casino and 2001 Greenwich events with Jamie Bentley and the 2004 BigApple Open with Clive Leach), while reaching a combined 41 ISDA finalsduring the first half of the decade of the 2000’s, during which time heattained No. 2 rankings with no fewer than four different partners, thosebeing Bentley, Viktor Berg, Michael Pirnak and Leach. 

Career highlights

• Top 30 PSA ranking
• 10 time Irish National champion
• 2001 British Open 40+ singles champion

ISDA highlights

• 2009 Racquet Club of Phialdelphia champion
• 2009 David Johnson Memorial semi-finalist
• 2008 Racquet Club of St. Louis Invitational semi-finalist
• 2000 World Doubles champion
• 2000 Jim Bentley Cup champion
• 1998 Jim Bentley Cup champion