Whitlock & El Tayeb Head World Championship Qualifying Draw by Howard Harding 13 March 2014
- Players from 16 nations - covering five continents - will be fighting
for the eight qualifying slots in next week's Penang CIMB Women's World
Squash Championship in Penang, Malaysia, according to the draw released
today by the Women's Squash Association (WSA).
Qualifying in the
$120,000 event gets underway at the Nicol David International Squash
Centre this Saturday before main draw action moves to the SPICE Arena
from Tuesday (18 March) when play will be conducted on an all-glass
showcourt through to the final on Sunday 23 March.
England's Emily
Whitlock (pictured above) is the top seed in the qualifying
competition. The 20-year-old world No25 from Colwyn Bay in Wales is
bidding to make her World Championship debut. After a bye in the first
round, Whitlock takes on the winner of the match between local hope Nur
Aliah Anis and Korea's Eun Chan Ahn, winner of the Malaysian Tour
Squash Circuit 1 earlier in the month.
Egypt's Nour El Tayeb
is the highest-ranked player in the qualifying draw. The 21-year-old
world No18 from Cairo also has a bye in the opening round before
beginning her world championship campaign against either of the
Malaysian teenagers Aika Azman or Ooi Kah Yan.
A successful
qualifying campaign in Penang will see El Tayeb (pictured above) make a
fifth successive appearance in the event's first round since 2009.
1st qualifying round draw:
Emily Whitlock (ENG) bye Eun Chan Ahn (KOR) v Nur Aliah Anis (MAS) Megan Craig (NZL) bye Sarah Cardwell (AUS) bye Heba El Torky (EGY) bye Rachel Arnold (MAS) v Sara Chew Rou-Yi (MAS) Deon Saffery (WAL) bye Tong Tsz-Wing (HKG) bye Siyoli Waters (RSA) bye Lotte Eriksen (NOR) v Aifa Azman (MAS) Lisa Aitken (ENG) bye Christine Nunn (AUS) v Nazihah Hanis (MAS) Tesni Evans (WAL) bye Celine Yeap (MAS) v Lim Jee Nee (MAS) Liu Tsz-Ling (HKG) bye Olga Ertlova (CZE) bye Pushppa Devi (MAS) v Lai Wen Li (MAS) Milou van der Heijden (NED) bye Habiba Mohamed Ahmed Alymohmed (EGY) bye Delia Arnold (MAS) bye Teh Min Jie (MAS) v Zetty Zawannah (MAS) Salma Hany Ibrahim (EGY) bye Karina Heredia Gonzalez (MEX) v S Sivasangari (MAS) Misaki Kobayashi (JPN) bye Aparajitha Balamurukan (IND) v Andrea Lee (MAS) Kylie Lindsay (NZL) bye Zulhijjah Binti Azan (MAS) v Satomi Watanabe (JPN) Samantha Cornett (CAN) bye Zoe Foo (MAS) v Teh Min Ern (MAS) Lisa Camilleri (AUS) bye Aika Azman (MAS) v Ooi Kah Yan (MAS) Nour El Tayeb (EGY) bye
