Hosts Egypt Seeded To Reclaim Men's World Team Title by Howard Harding 30 November 2015
- Hosts Egypt are expected to reclaim the WSF Men's World Team Squash
Championship title in Cairo in December according to the seedings
announced today by the World Squash Federation.
15 of the top 20 players in the world will compete in the 25th biennial
championship which will take place at the Al Ahly Club in the Egyptian
capital from 12-18 December.
Egypt boast a formidable four-man squad led by world No.1 Mohamed
Elshorbagy and including three further players from within the world
top 12: third-placed Ramy Ashour, No.6 Omar Mosaad and No.12 Tarek
Momen. But the favourites are sweating on the recovery of Ashour who is
missing the current Hong Kong Open due to the recurrence of a hamstring
injury.
Competing in their third successive final in the 2013 championship in
France, Egypt went down 2/1 to England - who lifted the trophy for the
fifth time since 1995. The defending champions - the 2015 event's
second seeds - will be led by world No.2 Nick Matthew, supported by
Daryl Selby (world No.16), event debutant Chris Simpson (No.23) and
James Willstrop, the world No.24 who defeated the top-ranked Elshorbagy
in the recent PSA World Championship.
France, runners-up in 2003 and 2009, are seeded three and will be led
by the newly-crowned world individual champion Gregory Gaultier. Record
eight-time champions Australia are the fourth seeds.
The full list of participating nations, in seeding order, is: [1]
Egypt, [2] England, [3] France, [4] Australia, [5] Hong Kong China, [6]
Germany, [7] India, [8] Scotland, [9] South Africa, [10] New Zealand,
[11] Mexico, [12] Pakistan, [13] Malaysia, [14] USA, [15] Switzerland,
[16] Finland, [17] Canada, [18] Argentina, [19] Colombia, [20] Austria,
[21] Qatar, [22] Republic of Korea, [23] Iraq.
Pool line-ups: Pool A: [1] Egypt, [12] Pakistan, [14] USA Pool B: [2] England, [11] Mexico, [13] Malaysia, [23] Iraq Pool C: [3] France, [10] New Zealand, [15] Switzerland, [22] Republic of Korea, Pool D: [4] Australia, [9] South Africa, [18] Argentina, [20] Austria Pool E: [5] Hong Kong China, [8] Scotland, [17] Canada, [19] Colombia Pool F: [6] Germany, [7] India, [16] Finland, [21] Qatar
