ISDA Squash Tour 2012

Mark Chaloner

Nationality: English

Resides: Greenwich, CT

Birthday: 1972-05-23

Occupation: Squash Professional

Preferred wall: Right

After a banner PSA singles career in which heclimbed to the No. 7 spot in the world rankings, captained British squadsthat won five European Team Championships as well as the World TeamChampionship, and served the Association as President during the five-yearperiod from 2002-07, this classic right-wall performer has enjoyed successon the ISDA tour these past several years first with Gary Waite (with whomChaloner won the Cambridge Club Doubles in 2001, when it was employing aformat in which ISDA and PSA players were matched up); then with WillieHosey (semis in St. Louis and Brooklyn and a third-place finish in theCambridge Club resulting from three wins against top-four teams, two overMatt Jenson/Clive Leach and one over John Russell/Preston Quick during the2008-09 tour); and last season with Chris Walker. The four-partWalker/Chaloner vs. Jenson/Leach rivalry was one of the most noteworthymarkers for the entire 2009-10 tour, and it featured wild swings in momentumin each match: Walker/Chaloner led two games to love in the Big Apple Openand came close in the third before Walker tinned a drop shot at 13-14;Leach/Jenson led 1-0, 8-1 in Boston before a sustained Walker/Chalonercharge through the last three games; the two teams battled each other to a2-all, 11-all standstill before Walker/Chaloner won the last four points;and after being hammered 15-8 15-2 11-7 in Brooklyn, Walker/Chaloner saved atotal of five match-balls-against in winning both the third and fourth gamesby one point, then led 10-3 in the fifth only to yield a 12-2 match-closingrun. Fully recovered from minor knee surgery he underwent this past summer,he and his British compatriot Walker should be a major factor during theupcoming second half of the current ISDA schedule.

Career highlights

• Highest PSA World Ranking No.7
• Highest British Ranking No. 1
• World Team Championships with England
• Commonwealth Games Gold and Bronze medalist
• England Team captain for 4 years
• Winner of 5 European Team Titles with England
• Consistently in the World Top 20 for 10 years including 40 months in the World Top 10

ISDA highlights

• 2009 US Pro Challenger champion
• 2009 David Johnson Memorial semi-finalist
• 2008 Pittsburgh Cup finalist
• 2008 Racquet Club of St. Louis Invitational semi-finalist
• 2007 Tavern Club Invitational champion
• 2006 Jim Bentley Cup champion