EUROPEAN SQUASH NEWS
RESULTS: European Junior U15/U17 Team Squash Championships, Antwerp, Belgium
U17 final:
[2]ENGLAND 2 [1]GERMANY 1 (Rachel Willmott bt Pamela Hathaway 9-3, 9-3, 9-1;
Chris Simpson bt Mathias Maierhofer 9-1, 9-1, 9-3; Tom Richards lost to Simon
Rosner 9-4, 2-9, 2-9)
3rd place play-off:
[3]BELGIUM 3 [6]NETHERLANDS 0 (Charlie De Rycke bt Esther Jongerden 9-1, 9-2,
9-1; Rik Smet bt Tom Hoevenaars 9-2, 9-4, 1-9, 9-1; Dimitri de Bellefroid bt
Bastiaan Meulenbelt 9-0, 4-9, 9-1)
5th place play-off:
[5]SWEDEN 2 [4]FRANCE 1 (Jonna Milton lost to Charlotte Delsinne 9-2, 2-9,
1-9, 3-9; Fredrik Onnervik bt Jean-César Langlois 9-0, 9-6, 2-9, 9-1; Ponos
Olsson bt Mathieu Castagnet 9-3, 9-2, 9-1)
7th place play-off:
[7]WALES 2 [9]SWITZERLAND 1 (Jessica Bevan bt Melanie Kunzli 9-0, 9-6, 9-1;
Christian Gonzalez lost to Cyril Ortner 7-9, 4-9, 3-9; Peter Creed bt Kevin
Brechbuhl 9-1, 9-10, 9-6, 9-4)
9th place play-off:
[8]CZECH REPUBLIC 2 [10]SCOTLAND 1 (Tereza Cturtnikova lost to Kirsty Craig
4-9, 2-9, 9-4, 8-10; Martin Sladecek bt Scott Middleton 9-6, 9-6, 9-1; Ondrej
Ertl bt Alan Clyne 9-2, 9-1, 9-5)
11th place play-off:
[14]SLOVAKIA 2 [12]DENMARK 1 (Linda Hruzikova bt Trine Engelund 9-6, 9-1,
9-2; Peter Gal bt Tobias Portner 9-2, 9-7, 9-2; Andrej Schmidtmayer lost to
Kristian Grooss 4-9, 5-9)
13th place play-off:
[11]IRELAND 2 [13]NORWAY 1 (Ciara Maloney lost to Lotte Eriksen 9-1, 3-9,
3-9, 1-9; Adam Hennessy bt Espen Gundersen 9-1, 9-1, 9-0; Niall Caheny bt Bjorn
Torgersen 9-2, 9-1, 9-2)
U15 final:
[1]ENGLAND 3 [3]FRANCE 0 (Monique Shahid bt Camille Serme w/o; Oliver Pett
bt Florent Pontière w/o; Neil Cordell bt Guillaume Lardy w/o)
3rd place play-off:
[2]CZECH REPUBLIC 3 [6]WALES 0 (Lucie Fialova bt Rachel Green 9-2, 7-9, 9-1,
9-7; Petr Martin bt Alistair Mutch 9-5, 9-1, 9-3; Jakub Kosinka bt Jonathon
Jones 9-2, 9-6)
5th place play-off:
[5]GERMANY 2 [7]NETHERLANDS 1 (Patricia Machazek lost to Melissa Meulenbelt
5-9, 2-9, 5-9; Norman Junge bt Tim Meuwissen 9-0, 9-2, 9-0; Florian Silbernagl
bt Marc Te Witt 9-7, 7-9, 2-9, 9-1, 10-8)
7th place play-off:
[4]SWITZERLAND 2 [9]SCOTLAND 1 (Vanessa Isola bt Joanna Morgan 9-4, 9-7,
4-9, 9-10, 9-4; Claudio Merlo lost to Scott Mosley 3-9, 3-9, 3-9; Nicolas Müller
bt Ian Tennant 9-3, 9-1, 9-1)
9th place play-off:
[8]BELGIUM 2 [11]IRELAND 1 (Julie de Bellefroid bt Roisin Brennan 9-6, 9-3,
9-7; Sam Van Brusselen bt Ben Ramasubu 10-8, 9-7, 9-3; Mats Raemen lost to
Rory Byrne 1-9, 7-9)
11th place play-off:
[12]DENMARK 3 [17]ISRAEL 0 (Sally Skaarenborg bt Daniella Barak 9-6, 9-5,
10-8; Philip Tran bt Ariel Lewis 6-9, 9-5, 9-1, 2-9, 9-6; Kristian Frost bt Idor
Evron 9-6, 9-2)
13th place play-off:
[14]FINLAND 3 [15]ITALY 0 (Tia Knuutila bt Francesca Facchi 9-1, 9-2, 9-7;
Roni Berg bt Frederico Leporati 9-2, 9-0, 9-0; Pyry Poikolainen bt Michelangelo
Bertocchi 9-1, 9-1)
15th place play-off:
[10]SWEDEN 2 [13]AUSTRIA 1 (Jonna Milton bt Caro Wurzner 9-5, 9-6, 9-0;
Frederik Onnervik bt Mathias Stur 9-6, 9-6, 9-1; Pontus Olsson lost to Fabian
Prieler 8-10, 9-3, 4-9)
17th place: [16]NORWAY
England Secure European Junior Double
England secured both titles in the European Junior U15/U17 Team Squash
Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, to finish the season with all three junior team
titles in the continent after winning the U19 trophy for the 19th year in a row
in Germany in April.
England retained the U17 title after upsetting top seeds Germany 2-1 in the
final. After British U17 champion Rachel Willmott put the team ahead with a
9-3 9-3 9-1 victory over Pamela Hathaway, 16-year-old Chris Simpson, from
Guernsey, became England's hero for the second time in six weeks when he beat
Germany's Mathias Maierhofer 9-1 9-1 9-3 to clinch the title for his country. In
the U19 final, he won the deciding match to give England a dramatic victory over
the Netherlands.
In the final 'dead rubber' in Antwerp, Germany's Simon Rosner beat Surrey's
Tom Richards 4-9 9-2 9-2.
There was a disappointing climax to the U15 event when France forfeited the
tie to top seeds England after it was discovered that the third seeds had been
playing in the wrong team order. It was England's first victory in the event
for three years.