Windhoek: Egypt successfully retained all three titles in the 2013 All Africa Junior Squash Championships at the Wanderers Club in the Namibia capital Windhoek.<\/p>\n
Favourites in the mixed team championship, Egypt brushed aside South Africa 3\/0 in the final – Omar Elatmas and Nouran Ahmed Gohar winning their matches in straight games and Ahmed Effat Ashoush fighting back from 2\/1 down in the dead rubber to quash determined opposition from Lawrence Kuhn to clinch an 11-6, 7-11, 7-11, 12-10, 14-12 victory.\n<\/p>\n
In the individual championships which followed, 16-year-old top seed Elatmas cruised to victory in the men’s event, beating South African Luke Willemse 11-4, 11-3, 11-9 in the final. Sixth seed Willemse made his breakthrough in the quarter-finals where he upset second-seeded compatriot Ruan Olivier.<\/p>\n
The women’s final was an all-Egyptian affair between the top two seeds, in which favourite Nouran Ahmed Gohar, a 15-year-old former British Junior U15 Open champion, beat Nadine Ayman Mohamed Shahin, also 15, 11-8, 11-3, 11-1.<\/p>\n
Men’s Individual Championship quarter-finals: Semi-finals: Windhoek: Egypt successfully retained all three titles in the 2013 All Africa Junior Squash Championships at the Wanderers Club in the Namibia capital Windhoek.<\/p>\n Favourites in the mixed team championship, Egypt brushed aside South Africa 3\/0 in the final – Omar Elatmas and Nouran Ahmed Gohar winning their matches in straight games and Ahmed Effat Ashoush fighting back from 2\/1 down in the dead rubber to quash determined opposition from Lawrence Kuhn to clinch an 11-6, 7-11, 7-11, 12-10, 14-12 victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-others"],"yoast_head":"\n
RESULTS: All Africa Junior Squash Championships, Windhoek, Namibia<\/strong><\/p>\n
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[1] Omar Elatmas (EGY) bt Blessing Muhwate (ZIM) 11-3, 11-4, 11-6
[5] Shehab Essam Hosny (EGY) bt [3] Ahmed Effat Ashoush (EGY) 5-11, 11-6, 11-3, 11-4
[8] Aubrey Lawrence (RSA) bt [4] Lawrence Kuhn (RSA) 11-3, 8-11, 8-11, 11-8, 11-8
[6] Luke Willemse (RSA) bt [2] Ruan Olivier (RSA) 11-8, 11-6, 12-10<\/p>\n
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[1] Omar Elatmas (EGY) bt [5] Shehab Essam Hosny (EGY) 11-8, 11-2, 11-7
[6] Luke Willemse (RSA) bt [8] Aubrey Lawrence (RSA) 11-5, 11-7, 11-3
Final:
[1] Omar Elatmas (EGY) bt [6] Luke Willemse (RSA) 11-4, 11-3, 11-9<\/p>\n
Women’s Individual Championship quarter-finals:
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[1] Nouran Ahmed Gohar (EGY) bt Ruthe Okoro (NGR) 11-2, 11-3, 11-2
[4] Alexa Pienaar (RSA) bt [5] Kacey-Leigh Dodd (RSA) 11-7, 11-6, 8-11, 11-7
[3] Megan Page (RSA) bt [6] Kehinde Adebayo (NGR) 11-8, 11-0, 11-2
[2] Nadine Ayman Mohamed Shahin (EGY) bt Stephanie Hobart (ZIM) 11-1, 11-5, 11-5
Semi-finals:
[1] Nouran Ahmed Gohar (EGY) bt [4] Alexa Pienaar (RSA) 11-7, 11-6, 11-7
[2] Nadine Ayman Mohamed Shahin (EGY) bt [3] Megan Page (RSA) 11-5, 11-3, 11-3
Final:
[1] Nouran Ahmed Gohar (EGY) bt [2] Nadine Ayman Mohamed Shahin (EGY) 11-8, 11-3, 11-1<\/p>\n
Team Championship Final:
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EGYPT bt SOUTH AFRICA 3\/0
Omar Elatmas bt Ruan Olivier 11-6, 11-5, 11-8
Nouran Ahmed Gohar bt Megan Page 11-1, 11-7, 11-5
Ahmed Effat Ashoush bt Lawrence Kuhn 11-6, 7-11, 7-11, 12-10, 14-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"