Egypt have been named as top seeds for the 2013 WSF Women’s World Junior Team Squash Championship and are firm favourites to become the first nation in the event’s 28-year history to win the title four times in a row.<\/p>\n
The biennial World Squash Federation championship gets underway tomorrow (22 July) at the Hasta La Vista Club in the historic city of Wroclaw in Poland following Sunday’s world individual finals.<\/p>\n
Egypt, boasting all four players in Saturday’s Women’s World Junior Championship semi-finals, will be led by Nour El Sherbini, the 17-year-old world No11 from Alexandria who is bidding to become the first player in history to win a world junior individual title for a third time.\n<\/p>\n
The defending champions are expected to line up against USA, the second seeds, in Saturday’s final. USA, who finished as runners-up in 2011 in their first ever appearance in the final, will be led by Sabrina Sobhy, the 16-year-old sister of 2010 world junior champion Amanda Sobhy.<\/p>\n
Five-time champions England are the third seeds, ahead of fourth seeds Hong Kong China, the 2005 champions.<\/p>\n
Full Pool line-ups:<\/strong><\/p>\n Pool A: [1] EGYPT, [8] NEW ZEALAND, [9] AUSTRALIA, [13\/16] POLAND<\/p>\n Pool B: [2] USA, [7] CANADA, [10] FRANCE, [13\/16] CZECH REPUBLIC<\/p>\n Pool C: [3] ENGLAND, [6] INDIA, [11] JAPAN, [13\/16] SOUTH AFRICA<\/p>\n Pool D: [4] HONG KONG CHINA, [5] MALAYSIA, [12] COLOMBIA, [13\/16] GERMANY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Egypt have been named as top seeds for the 2013 WSF Women’s World Junior Team Squash Championship and are firm favourites to become the first nation in the event’s 28-year history to win the title four times in a row.<\/p>\n The biennial World Squash Federation championship gets underway tomorrow (22 July) at the Hasta La Vista Club in the historic city of Wroclaw in Poland following Sunday’s world individual finals.<\/p>\n Egypt, boasting all four players in Saturday’s Women’s World Junior Championship semi-finals, will be led by Nour El Sherbini, the 17-year-old world No11 from Alexandria who is bidding to become the first player in history to win a world junior individual title for a third time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-others"],"yoast_head":"\n