July World Juniors Saved, The Netherlands to Host by Howard Harding 17 April 2015
- The World Squash Federation has now confirmed that the 2015 World
Junior Squash Championships will take place in the Netherlands, during
the same period as was scheduled for the event before its recent move
from Cairo.
The WSF World Junior Championships 2015, comprising men's and women's
under 19 age individual events followed by the biennial junior women's
team event, will now be held in Eindhoven - the former from 26-30 July,
with the Women's Team Championship following on from 31 July to 4
August.
The championships will be hosted by the Dutch Squash Federation, in conjunction with the 15-court Squashtime Centre.
Thanking the Dutch Federation, WSF President N Ramachandran said:
"After the very unfortunate need to relocate the event, we were very
grateful that our friends from Netherlands - who have great facilities
and extensive event experience - were in a position to offer an option
that allows the cream of young players from all over the world to
contest their world titles as scheduled. While we very much hope to
return to Egypt soon, for this year we thank our new hosts."
Hans Arends, Chairman of the Dutch Squash Federation, added: "We are
very happy to be able to help the WSF with organising the 2015 World
Junior Squash Championships. We have an enthusiastic crew ready to make
the tournament an unforgettable event for the players, staff and
spectators."
Both individual world champions Habiba Mohamed (Egypt) and Diego Elias
(Peru) will be back to defend the 2014 titles they won in Namibia.
Elias became his country's first ever world squash champion and
15-year-old Mohamed has a potential record four world junior titles in
her sights!
The 2015 Women's World Junior Team Championship is likely to see Egypt
seeded to win the trophy for a record fifth time in a row.
