WORLD SQUASH NEWS

RESULTS: Men's World Team Squash Championship Vienna Austria

2nd qualifying round:
    Pool A:
[1]AUSTRALIA 3 [16]GERMANY 0 (David Palmer bt Simon Frenz 9-4, 10-8, 9-0; Anthony Ricketts bt Stefan Leifels 9-3, 9-6, 9-2; Joseph Kneipp bt Daniel Hoffmann 9-1, 9-5, 9-0)
[17/24]JAPAN 3 RUSSIA 0 (Kimihiko Sano bt Alexei Severinov 10-9, 9-6, 9-5; Takehide Nishio bt Serguei Kostrykine 9-1, 9-1, 9-1; Jun Matsumoto bt Maxim Shokin 9-2, 9-0, 9-2)
    Pool B:
[2]ENGLAND 3 [17/24]NEW ZEALAND 0 (Lee Beachill bt Daniel Sharplin 9-0, 9-6, 9-0; James Willstrop bt Callum O'Brien 9-5, 9-0, 9-2; Nick Matthew bt Oliver Johnston 9-3, 9-0, 9-7)
[15]SWITZERLAND 2 HUNGARY 1 (Lars Harms bt Andras Torok 9-4, 9-4, 9-4; Andre Holderegger lost to Mark Krajcsak 9-0, 4-9, 3-9, 6-9; Marco Daetwyler bt Sandor Fulop 9-5, 9-6, 9-5)
    Pool C:
[3]FRANCE 3 [14]SWEDEN 0 (Thierry Lincou bt Christian Drakenberg 9-2, 9-1, 9-2; Gregory Gaultier bt Henrik Löfvenborg 9-4, 9-5, 9-4; Renan Lavigne bt Badr Abdel Aziz 5-9, 9-7, 9-4, 9-0)
[17/24]AUSTRIA 3 SLOVENIA 0 (Leopold Czaska bt Gasper Fecur 9-4, 9-4, 9-4; Clemens Wallishauser bt Damir Bezan 9-2, 9-4, 9-2; Andreas Fuchs bt Klemen Gutman 9-1, 10-8, 3-9, 9-3)
    Pool D:
[4]EGYPT 3 [17/24]HONG KONG 0 (Karim Darwish bt Faheem Khan 9-6, 9-0, 10-8; Mohamed Abbas bt Dick Lau 9-2, 9-0, 9-1; Wael El Hindi bt Roger Ngan 5-9, 9-0, 9-3, 9-0)
[13]FINLAND 3 BERMUDA 0 (Olli Tuominen bt Nicholas Kyme 8-10, 9-7, 9-1, 9-1; Juha Raumolin bt James Stout 9-6, 9-4, 9-3; Hameed Ahmed bt Sam Stevens 9-4, 9-3, 9-1)
    Pool E:
[5]CANADA 3 [12]NETHERLANDS 0 (Jonathon Power bt Tommy Berden 4-9, 9-4, 9-2, 9-1; Graham Ryding bt Lucas Buit 9-2, 9-7, 9-4; Viktor Berg bt Michael Fiteni 9-4, 9-5, 9-4)
    Pool F:
[6]SCOTLAND 3 [17/24]USA 0 (John White bt Preston Quick 9-0, 9-3, 9-1; Martin Heath bt Jamie Crombie 9-2, 10-8, 9-2; Peter O'Hara bt Tim Wyant 9-3, 5-9, 9-6, 9-5)
[11]SOUTH AFRICA 3 KOREA 0 (Rodney Durbach bt Yong-Chun Chong 9-1, 9-3, 9-0; Craig van der Wath bt Dong-Woo Kim 9-3, 9-3, 9-0; Gregory La Mude bt Seung-Jun Lee 9-1, 9-7, 9-1)
    Pool G:
[7]WALES 3 [10]IRELAND 0 (Alex Gough bt Derek Ryan 9-4, 9-6, 9-0; David Evans bt John Rooney 9-4, 9-2, 9-2; Gavin Jones bt Graeme Stewart 9-5, 9-5, 9-2)
[17/24]MEXICO 2 KUWAIT 1 (Eric Galvez bt Bader Alhosaini 9-2, 9-6, 9-4; Jorge Baltazar bt Ali Alramezi 6-9, 9-4, 6-9, 9-5, 9-5; Armando Zarazua lost to Abdullah Almezayem 5-9, 9-10, 7-9)
    Pool H:
[9]PAKISTAN 3 [17/24]ITALY 0 (Mansoor Zaman bt Andrea Capella 9-4, 9-1, 9-0; Farrukh Zaman bt Francesco Busi 9-5, 9-1, 9-0; Majid Khan bt Andrea Torricini 9-2, 9-3, 9-2)

Hosts Austria Slay Slovenia In World Championships

Hosts Austria delighted local fans at the Wellness Park Centre in the Vienna suburb of Oberlaa when they recorded their first victory in the Men's World Team Squash Championship.

After losing to third seeds France in the opening tie in Pool C, Austria beat unseeded event newcomers Slovenia 3-0 in the second qualifying round to keep alive their hope of reaching the last sixteen play-offs on Wednesday.  To do so, they will need to beat 14th seeds Sweden, who lost 3-0 to France in the other second round tie in Pool C.

Second seeds England secured their second successive maximum points win without the services of top string Peter Nicol - the world No1 who has yet to make his England debut in the Championships after last appearing for Scotland some years ago.  Nicol, who is still recovering from the flu symptoms which hampered his British Open progress earlier in the month, watched team-mates Lee Beachill, James Willstrop and Nick Matthew lead the 1995 and 1997 champions to a 3/0 win over New Zealand, one of only two teams to have competed in each Men's World Team Championship since the inaugural event in Australia in 1967.

Favourites Australia, the defending champions who are also recording their 19th appearance in the event, brushed aside 16th seeds Germany 3/0 in Pool A and will now face Japan, who beat unseeded newcomers Russia 3/0.