EUROPEAN SQUASH NEWS
RESULTS: European Junior Team Squash Championships, Parsdorf, Germany
1st Qualifying rounds:
Pool A:
[1]ENGLAND 3 [8]SCOTLAND 0 (Lauren Siddall bt Kirsty Craig 9-1 9-4 9-0;
Laurence Delasaux bt Alistair Gorrie 9-2 9-0 9-0; Chris Simpson bt Harry
Leitch 10-9 9-4 3-9 8-10 9-1)
[8]SCOTLAND 3 [9]SWITZERLAND 0 (Lauren Gray bt Corinne Scarlato 10-8 9-2
9-5; Kristen Johnson bt Manuel Grima 9-6 9-6 9-3; Alistair Gorrie bt Diego
Staub 8-9 9-0 9-3 9-1)
Pool B:
[2]NETHERLANDS 2 [7]DENMARK 1 (Orla Noom bt Trine Engelund 9-1 9-0 9-0;
Dylan Bennett bt Jonas Laursen 9-4 9-6 9-0; Sebastian Weenink lost to Michel
Frilund 10-8 3-9 5-9 9-10)
[7]DENMARK 2 [10]FINLAND 1 (Anne-Mette Pedersen lost to Elina Kononen 1-9
3-9 1-9; Mark Burmaister bt Hameed Ahmed 9-0 5-9 10-9 9-7; Michel Frilund bt
Matias Tuomi 9-7 9-7 9-0)
Pool X:
[3]GERMANY 3 [11]AUSTRIA 0 (Pia Kaindl bt Birgit Coufal 1-9 10-9 9-5 10-8;
Patrick Gässler bt Aqueel Rehman 10-8 9-1 9-5; Matthias Maierhofer bt Lukas
Gnauer 9-6 9-0 9-5)
[6]BELGIUM 2 [14]ISRAEL 1 (Liesbeth Voortmans bt Daniela Barak 9-1 9-0 9-1;
Bart Govaerts lost to Ilan Oren 7-9 6-9 4-9; Rik Smet bt Nir Arkin 9-0 9-0
9-7)
[6]BELGIUM 2 [3]GERMANY 1 (Charlie de Rycke bt Pamela Hathway 9-4 9-1 9-2;
Bart Govaerts lost to Patrick Gässler 4-9 4-9 3-9; Rik Smet bt Tobias Böhm
9-7 9-2 9-4)
[11]AUSTRIA 2 [14]ISRAEL 1 (Birgit Coufal bt Daniela Barak 9-0 9-0 9-0;
Aqueel Rehman lost to Ilan Oren 3-9 3-9 7-9; Alois Kozar bt Nir Arkin 10-8
5-9 9-1 10-9)
Pool Y:
[4]WALES 3 [12]SWEDEN 0 (Stacey Preece bt Anna Detter 9-2 9-2 9-2; Rob
Sutherland bt Gustav Detter 9-5 4-9 6-9 9-5 9-2; Jethro Binns bt Sebastian
Victor 9-4 9-2 9-2)
[5]FRANCE 3 [13]IRELAND 0 (Maud Duplomb bt Zoe Barr 9-4 9-3 9-7; Yann Perrin
bt Dermot McNamara 9-2 9-7 9-5; Romain Degezelle bt Ross Lillis 3-9 9-3 9-3
9-0)
[4]WALES 2 [5]FRANCE 1 (Stacey Preece bt Maud Duplomb 10-9 4-9 9-0 9-6; Rob
Sutherland lost to Yann Perrin 9-7 5-9 2-9 4-9; Jethro Binns bt Romain
Degezelle 9-5 4-9 9-6 9-0)
[12]SWEDEN 2 [13]IRELAND 1 (Anna Detter lost to Zoe Barr 2-9 4-9 0-9; Gustav
Detter bt Arthur Gaskin 9-4 9-5 9-0; Sebastian Victor bt Dermot McNamara 9-2
9-3 9-4)
Hosts Germany In Early European Junior Championships Upset
While top seeds England and the Netherlands opened their accounts with
victories on the first day of qualifying matches in the European Junior Team
Squash Championships in Parsdorf, third-seeded hosts Germany stumbled to a
2-1 loss to sixth seeds Belgium.
Favourites England, the title-holders, beat 8th seeds Scotland 3-0 in Pool A,
though No2 seeds Netherlands only managed a 2-1 win over Denmark, the seventh
seeds, in Pool B.
Belgium's unexpected victory over Germany followed a 2-1 win over 14th seeds
Israel. Germany, who earlier beat rivals Austria 3-0, now face Israel in
their final qualifying match in Pool X.