Engeland bleek zaterdag in de finale van de Europese kampioenschappen voor squashteams zowel voor de Nederlandse mannen als de vrouwen te sterk. De Oranje-mannen gingen met 4-0 de baan af. Alleen Laurens Jan Anjema wist in het Italiaanse Riccione één game van zijn tegenstander James Willstrop te winnen (9-7 9-6 7-9 9-5). De Nederlandse vrouwen verloren kansloos met 3-0. Margriet Huisman, Vanessa Atkinson en Annelize Naudé waren in gezamenlijk één uur en 18 minuten klaar. De Engelse vrouwen wonnen de titel voor de dertigste keer.
Dat Anjema, Tom Hoevenaars, Dylan Bennett en Lucas Buit in de finale stonden, was op zich al een prestatie. De laatste zeven jaar ging de eindstrijd bij de mannenteams altijd tussen Engeland en Frankrijk. Engeland won vanaf 1973 alle EK's voor teams, behalve in 1980 (Zweden), 1983 (Zweden) en 1992 (Schotland).
RESULTS: European Team Squash Championships, Riccione, Italy
Men's Final:
[1] ENGLAND bt [4] NETHERLANDS 4-0
James Willstrop bt Laurens Jan Anjema 9-7, 9-6, 7-9, 9-5 (95m)
Adrian Grant bt Tom Hoevenaars 9-3, 9-0, 9-1 (36m)
Lee Beachill bt Dylan Bennett 9-1, 9-1 (22m)
Nick Matthew bt Lucas Buit 9-0, 9-2, 9-3 (34m)
3rd place play-off:
[2] FRANCE bt [3] WALES 3-1
Renan Lavigne lost to Alex Gough 4-9, 3-9, 7-9 (75m)
Romain Tenant bt Jethro Binns 9-3, 9-6, 9-2 (43m)
Julien Balbo bt Ricky Davies 9-7, 9-6, 9-1 (75m)
Jean-Michel Arcucci bt Rob Sutherland 9-3, 9-7, 9-5 (52m)
5th place play-off:
[6] GERMANY bt [5] IRELAND 3-1
Simon Rosner lost to Liam Kenny 4-9, 10-8, 4-9, 7-9 (71m)
Tim Weber bt Steve Richardson 10-8, 9-7, 1-9, 9-6 (74m)
Patrick Gaessler bt Arthur Gaskin 9-5, 9-3, 8-10, 9-2 (71m)
Stefan Leifels bt Derek Ryan 2-9, 9-2, 9-3, 9-4 (45m)
7th place play-off:
[9] SWEDEN bt [8] SCOTLAND 3-1
Badr Abdel Aziz bt Harry Leitch 9-3, 9-4, 9-5 (48m)
Sebastian Victor bt Graham Melvin 5-9, 0-9, 9-5, 9-2, 9-1 (71m)
Gustav Detter lost to Stuart Crawford 5-9, 3-9, 4-9 (46m)
Christian Drakenberg bt Alan Clyne 9-7, 9-7, 9-0 (53m)
9th place play-off:
[10] DENMARK bt [11] SWITZERLAND 3-1
Morten W Sorensen bt Andre Holderegger 9-3, 9-5, 9-2 (28m)
Kasper Gross Jeppesen bt Marcel Straub 8-10, 10-8, 9-1, 9-0 (47m)
Michael Frilund lost to John Williams 3-9, 3-9, 3-9 (35m)
Rasmus Nielsen bt Nicolas Mueller 9-7, 2-9, 5-9, 9-3, 9-2 (52m)
11th place play-off:
[7] SPAIN bt [12] FINLAND 2-2 (Spain win 8-6 on games countback)
Borja Golan bt Olli Tuominen 9-6, 9-4, 9-3 (60m)
Arturo Santo Tomas lost to Heikki Kononen 3-9, 9-4, 3-9, 1-9 (44m)
Bruno Vega lost to Henrik Mustonen 9-7, 8-10, 4-9, 9-10 (60m)
David Vidal bt Matias Tuomi 9-7, 9-1, 9-1 (44m)
13th place play-off:
[18] ITALY bt [15] AUSTRIA 3-1
Simone Rocca lost to Aqeel Rehman 5-9, 1-9, 1-9 (29m)
Matteo Vaccari bt Stefan Brauneis 9-6, 10-9, 1-9, 9-4 (77m)
Andrea Torricini bt Andreas Freudensprung 2-9, 5-9, 9-6, 9-2, 9-2 (93m)
Andrea Capella bt Jakob Dirnberger 9-3, 9-1, 9-6 (40m)
15th place play-off:
[14] HUNGARY bt [13] BELGIUM 2-2 (Hungary win 8-6 on games countback)
Mark Krajcsak bt Wim van Asten 9-0, 9-1, 9-0 (24m)
Daniel Cseffalvay lost to Bart Verhoeven 9-3, 5-9, 1-9, 1-9 (36m)
Marton Szaboky lost to Mats Raemen 9-10, 6-9, 9-5, 7-9 (60m)
Sandor Fulop bt Gregory Lecerf 9-1, 9-4, 9-2 (46m)
17th place play-off:
[17] ISRAEL bt [16] CZECH REPUBLIC 3-1
Ilan Oren bt Pavel Sladecek 9-1, 9-1, 9-4 (23m)
Nadav Tannen bt Jan Lempart 9-2, 9-1, 9-2 (39m)
Art Gitelband lost to Jaroslav Cech 4-9, 3-9, 1-9 (27m)
Nadav Wilensky bt Lukas Jelinek 9-5, 4-9, 9-3, 9-3 (40m)
19th place play-off:
[19] SLOVAKIA bt [20] UKRAINE 2-2 (Slovakia win 10-8 on games countback)
Marek Manik lost to Dmytro Shcherbakov 4-9, 5-9, 10-8, 9-5, 1-9 (57m)
Martin Kostolansky lost to Artem Shandybin 9-1, 0-9, 5-9, 9-5, 9-10 (62m)
Robert Dobai bt Oleksandr Molodukha 9-0, 9-1, 9-3 (25m)
Marek Zvoncek bt Roman Dolynych 9-7, 3-9, 5-9, 9-5, 9-5 (73m)
21st place play-off:
NORWAY bt GREECE 3-1
Hans-Olav Torgersen lost to Fabian Kalaitzis 3-9, 3-9, 6-9 (32m)
Rashid Younis bt Konstantinos Kargiotis 9-6, 9-2, 8-9, 9-6 (48m)
Patrick Hansen bt George Vafakos 9-3, 9-4, 9-7 (26m)
Kristian Solhave bt Petros Tzamaloukas 9-7, 7-9, 8-9, 9-7, 9-7 (52m)
23rd place play-off:
LATVIA bt [21] GIBRALTAR 3-1
Alexander Pavulans bt Anthony Brindle 9-4, 9-5, 9-3 (37m)
Kaspars Purgailis bt Mark Tewkesbury 9-4, 9-2, 5-9, 1-9, 9-5 (71m)
Gunars Prizevoits lost to Christian Navas 5-9, 3-9, 6-9 (56m)
Arnis Tihvinskis bt Stephen Shacaluga 9-0, 9-2, 9-4 (36m)
25th - 28th place play-offs:
[22] RUSSIA bt [23] ISLE OF MAN 3-1
Alexei Severinov bt David Norman 7-9, 9-3, 9-4, 9-4 (60m)
Sergey Kostrikin bt David Hedley 9-4, 9-2, 9-3 (27m)
Viacheslav Perfiliev lost to Kevin Watterson 10-8, 5-9, 4-9, 3-9 (50m)
Roman Fetisov bt Robert Smith 9-6, 9-1, 9-3 (22m)
Final placings: 25th CROATIA, 26th RUSSIA, 27th ISLE OF MAN bye
Women's Final:
[1] ENGLAND bt [2] NETHERLANDS 3-0
Alison Waters bt Margriet Huisman 9-0, 9-4, 9-0 (25m)
Tania Bailey bt Vanessa Atkinson 9-2, 9-2, 9-2 (34m)
Vicky Botwright bt Annelize Naude 9-0, 10-8 (19m)
3rd place play-off:
[5] DENMARK bt [3] GERMANY 2-1
Marie-Louise Feddern lost to Carola Weiss 4-9, 0-9, 4-9 (26m)
Line Hansen bt Kathrin Rohrmueller 9-7, 9-1, 10-9 (37m)
Ellen Petersen bt Katharina Witt 9-2, 9-6, 9-1 (30m)
5th place play-off:
[10] IRELAND bt [7] SWITZERLAND 3-0
Laura Mylotte bt Sara Guebey 7-9, 9-0, 9-0, 8-6 (32m)
Madeline Perry bt Gaby Schmohl 9-1, 9-5, 9-1 (41m)
Aisling Blake bt Olivia Hauser 9-10, 9-6, 9-4 (48m)
7th place play-off:
[4] FRANCE bt [8] SPAIN 3-0
Maud Duplomb bt Stela Carbonell 9-0, 9-0, 9-7 (28m)
Camille Serme bt Alicia Alvarez Riaza 9-2, 9-1, 9-1 (35m)
Soraya Renai bt Laura Alonso Perez 9-6, 9-2 (20m)
9th place play-off:
[9] WALES bt [11] ITALY 2-1
Natalie Pritchard bt Veronica Favero Camp 6-9, 9-0, 9-0, 9-2 (34m)
Karen Leach bt Manuela Manetta 7-9, 9-2, 7-9, 9-4, 9-6 (65m)
Jenny Wright lost to Sonia Pasteris 0-9, 5-9 (21m)
11th place play-off:
[13] BELGIUM bt [6] CZECH REPUBLIC 3-0
Kim Hannes-Teunen bt Veronica Koukalova 9-2, 9-3, 9-4 (23m)
Charlie de Rycke bt Zuzana Vackova 9-6, 5-9, 9-2, 9-2 (41m)
Annabel Romedenne bt Jana Smeralova 9-6, 9-4 (18m)
13th place play-off:
[14] AUSTRIA bt [15] FINLAND 2-1
Bettina Greslehner lost to Saara Valtola 9-1, 9-2, 1-9, 8-10, 6-9 (45m)
Pamela Pancis bt Jutta Tuunanen 9-7, 4-9, 9-5, 9-0 (26m)
Birgit Coufal bt Elina Kononen 6-9, 9-2, 9-5, 9-5 (43m)
15th place play-off:
[17] SLOVAKIA bt [12] SCOTLAND 2-1
Henrieta Loksova bt Lisa McKenna 9-5, 9-2, 6-9, 0-9, 10-8 (55m)
Aneta Paprnakova lost to Frania Gillen-Buchert 5-9, 0-9, 0-9 (21m)
Linda Hruzikova bt Lisa Aitken 9-5, 9-6, 9-3 (44m)
17th place play-off:
[16] NORWAY bt RUSSIA 2-1
Maren Myhre bt Alina Tuzlukova 9-0, 9-0, 9-1 (19m)
Lotte Eriksen bt Ekatarina Glinchikova 9-0, 9-0, 9-2 (20m)
Nina Martinsen lost to Irina Assal 6-9, 9-7, 7-9 (45m)