ISDA Squash Tour 2012

Matt Jenson

Nationality: Australian

Resides: Charleston

Birthday: 1979-05-23

Occupation: Head Squash Professional, Kiawah Island Club & The Charleston Squash Club

Preferred wall: Left

The youngest player ranked in the ISDA top-eightcurrently in his third season as Clive Leach’s partner has reached sevenISDA finals spread out over the past four seasons, namely Cleveland ’08 withPreston Quick and Sea Island ’08, Boston ’09 and the ’09 Briggs Cup and ’10Kellner Cup with Leach prior to this past autumn, during which Jensonadvanced to the Big Apple Open final with Leach and the Cambridge Club finalwith Quick, where they lost a 15-12 fifth game to John Russell and ViktorBerg. Three years ago, Jenson teamed with his older brother Dan, a PSAtop-five during the early 2000’s, to win the U. S. National SiblingChampionship, held that year in Sea Island, where Jenson would subsequentlyland the head pro job before moving first to the Olympic Club in SanFrancisco and then, this past summer, to his current base in South Carolina.He and Leach were the only team last season other than Russell/Quick todefeat both the Paul Price/Ben Gould and the Berg/Damien Mudge juggernautsthat dominated the 2009-10 tour, and each of those wins (in theseason-opening Briggs Cup and the season-ending Kellner Cup) came indecisive 3-0 fashion.

Career highlights

• 2009 represented Australia World Double Championships
• Highest PSA ranking of #59
• Semi-finalist Sao Paulo Open

ISDA highlights

• 2009 Hashim Khan champion
• 2009 Briggs Cup finalist
• 2009 Big Apple Open semi-finalist
• 2008 Tavern Club semi-finalist
• 2008 Maryland Club Open semi-finalist 
• 2008 Big Apple Open semi-finalist
• 2008 Sea Island Open finalist