women world nov2012 - Wales Squash and Racketball

WELSH TEAM HEAD TO FRANCE FOR WOMEN’S WORLDS Words by Damian Burgess 9.11.2012 England, runners-­‐up in the previous two championships, have been named as top seeds in the 2012 WSF Women’s World Team Championship next month in Nimes, France. A record 26 nations will take part in the biennial World Squash Federation event hosted by Fédération Française de Squash from 12-­‐
17 November and staged in France for the first time in its 33-­‐year history. The championship in Nimes will be held at the La Parnasse Arena – where action will take place on three new state-­‐of-­‐the-­‐art all-­‐glass show courts – as well as at the eight-­‐court Club des Costières. England, six times champions since 1985, finished as runners-­‐up to hosts Egypt in 2008 and to Australia in 2010 in New Zealand. Led by world number two Laura Massaro – and including Jenny Duncalf and Alison Waters, both in the world top eight – England are expected to face rivals Egypt in the final. Second seeds Egypt will be led for the first time by Raneem El Weleily, the world No3 from Alexandria. The squad also features teenagers Nour El Sherbini and Nour El Tayeb, ranked 5 and 20 in the world, respectively. Wales are seeded 15th for the event and take on Egypt in their opening group match on the all glass court, the Welsh team of Tesni Evans, Deon Saffery, Hannah Davies and Fion Murphy will look for success like they had at the Women’s Junior Worlds last year in Boston. Good luck to the team in all their matches, David Evans senior High Performance coach in travelling with the team and we wish them all the best. Action from the event can be watched online when play begins on Monday morning, visit www.squashsite.co.uk for more info on the event including links to the LIVE stream. Pool line-­‐ups: Pool A: [1] England, [16] Scotland, [23] Republic of Korea Pool B: [2] Egypt, [15] Wales, [24] Mexico Pool C: [3] Malaysia, [14] South Africa, [19] China, [26] Spain Pool D: [4] Hong Kong China, [13] Czech Republic, [20] Colombia, [25] Namibia Pool E: [5] New Zealand, [12] USA, [22] Japan Pool F: [6] Australia, [11] Canada, [18] Austria Pool G: [7] Ireland, [10] India, [17] Argentina Pool H: [8] Netherlands, [9] France, [21] Germany Words From Damian Burgess Press Officer Wales Squash and Racketball