Squash’s great entertainer is a player with no regrets

Wednesday 20th February 2008, 2:30PM GMT.

Mark Roberts in the quiet of the dressing room before a big match. (0538072)

WHOEVER walks away with the island senior men’s squash title this week will have to go a long way to emulate the career of arguably the finest men’s player the King’s Club conveyor belt ever produced.

It is not that Mark Roberts won the trophy 15 times, his 10 CI successes came in four different decades and often in the most spectacular fashion.

Never has a greater entertainer trod the old court six and the man they affectionally refer to as ‘Robbo’ is not in the least bit sad that he could so easily have swapped domination of Channel Islands squash for a professional career in the higher reaches of the world game.