Entries Close For 2016 Women's World Team Championship In France by Howard Harding 10 May 2016
- While hosts France will be bidding to reach the final for the first
time in the event's 37-year history, European rivals England - winners
of the championship two years ago in Canada - will be striving to
defend their title at the 2016 WSF Women's World Team Squash
Championship which will be staged in the suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux
and the French capital Paris from 28 November to 3 December.
19
nations will compete in the biennial World Squash Federation event,
hosted by the Fédération Française de Squash, which will take place at
the historic Jeu De Paume and St Cloud Squash clubs, with final stages
being held on an all-glass court at the Palais Des Sports Robert
Charpentier.
Competing in the championship will be
Australia, Austria, Canada, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong
China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, South
Africa, Spain, Switzerland, USA and Wales.
Currently
boasting four players in the world top ten - led by the new world
number one and World Champion Nour El Sherbini - Egypt are likely to be
seeded to reclaim the title they won for the second time in 2012, when
the event was last held in France.
