EUROPEAN SQUASH NEWS

RESULTS: European Junior (U19) Team Squash Championships, Herentals, Belgium

Quarter-finals:
[1]ENGLAND 3 [7]FINLAND 0 (Laurence Delasaux bt Hameed Ahmed 9-1 9-0 (best of three); James Wright bt Matias Tuomi 9-2 9-2 9-2; Kirsty McPhee bt Elina Kononen 9-1 9-3 9-0)
[4]BELGIUM 2 [6]SWEDEN 1 (Rik Smet lost to Gustav Detter 3-9 5-9 (best of three); Bart Govaerts bt Sebastian Victor 9-1 10-8 9-2; Charlie De Rycke bt Anna Detter 10-8 9-5 9-3)
[3]GERMANY 3 [5]WALES 0 (Simon Rösner bt Lewys Hurst 9-5 9-5 (best of three); Jens Schoor bt Peter Creed 9-2 9-0 9-6; Sandra Krüger bt Jessica Bevan 7-9 10-8 4-9 9-6 9-1)
[2]FRANCE 2 [9]NETHERLANDS 1 (Yann Perrin bt Sebastiaan Weenink 9-3 10-8 10-8; Fabien Verseille bt Marius Wolk 9-1 9-1 9-3; Celia Allamargot lost to Orla Noom 2-9 3-9 9-1 8-10)
   9th - 17th place play-offs:
[15]ISRAEL 2 [17]HUNGARY 1 (Nir Arkin bt Adrian Varga 9-1 9-5 9-0; Nadav Tannen bt Zsolt Elek 9-6 10-8 7-9 4-9 10-8; Rachel Montefiori lost to Helga Kecse Nagy 1-9 1-9 0-9)
[12]DENMARK 2 [11]AUSTRIA 1 (Michael Frilund bt Aqeel Rehman 9-3 9-0 7-9 9-1; Kristian Gross bt Lukas Gnauer 9-2 9-1 9-1; Anne-Mette Pedersen lost to Birgit Coufal 7-9 2-9 1-9)
[14]CZECH REPUBLIC 3 [13]SWITZERLAND 0 (Jaroslav Cech bt Kevin Brechbühl 9-5 9-3 (best of three); Lukas Jelinek bt Benjamin Fischer 9-6 9-3 9-6; Veronika Koukalova bt Julia Schmalz 6-9 3-9 9-4 9-0 9-3)
[8]SCOTLAND 2 [10]SPAIN 1 (Kristen Johnson bt Manuel Garcia 9-7 9-1 9-6; Graham Melvin bt Pedro Espeleta 9-5 7-9 9-1 7-9 9-2; Kirsty Craig lost to Margaux Moros 1-9 1-9 0-9)

Semi-finals:  
[1]ENGLAND 2 [4]BELGIUM 1 (Laurence Delasaux bt Rik Smet 9-4 9-2 9-2; Chris Simpson bt Bart Govaerts 9-1 9-4 9-1; Emma Beddoes lost to Charlie De Rycke 4-9 6-9 9-5 1-9)
[2]FRANCE 2 [3]GERMANY 1 (Yann Perrin lost to Simon Rösner 9-6 7-9 8-9 (best of three); Mathieu Castagnet bt Jens Schoor 9-5 9-6 5-9 9-1; Maud Duplomb bt Sandra Krüger 9-4 9-0 2-9 9-5)
   5th-8th place play-offs:
[5]WALES 2 [9]NETHERLANDS 1 (Rob Sutherland bt Sebastiaan Weenink 9-7 9-1 9-2; Peter Creed bt Martijn Kock 9-4 9-5 9-2; Jessica Bevan lost to Orla Noom 8-10 0-9 6-9)
[7]FINLAND 2 [6]SWEDEN 1 (Hameed Ahmed lost to Gustav Detter 8-9 2-9 (best of three); Matias Tuomi bt Sebastian Victor 9-4 9-7 9-2; Elina Kononen bt Anna Detter 9-10 9-0 10-9 0-9 9-3)
   9th-12th place play-offs:
[12]DENMARK 2 [15]ISRAEL 1 (Michael Frilund lost to Nir Arkin 6-9 7-9 (best of three); Christian Andersen bt Nadav Tannen 9-6 9-6 9-10 10-8; Julie Nilsson bt Rachel Montefiori 9-2 9-1 9-3)
[8]SCOTLAND 2 [14]CZECH REPUBLIC 1 (Kristen Johnson bt Jaroslav Cech 10-8 9-1 9-2; Alan Clyne lost to Ondrej Ertl 3-9 3-9 2-9; Lauren Gray bt Veronika Koukalova 9-5 9-5 9-7)
   13th-17th place play-offs:
[16]IRELAND 2 [17]HUNGARY 1 (David Noone bt Adrian Varga 9-6 9-2 9-2; Sam Olwill bt Zsolt Elek 9-2 9-5 9-5; Ciara Moloney lost to Helga Kecse-Nagy 4-9 9-7 9-6 8-10 5-9)
[13]SWITZERLAND 2 [11]AUSTRIA 1 (Kevin Brechbuhl bt Aqeel Rehman 9-1 1-9 6-9 9-7 9-7; Nicolas Muller bt Lukas Gnauer 9-6 9-6 9-7; Julia Schmalz lost to Birgit Coufal 6-9 2-9 6-9)

England & France To Contest European Final

Defending champions and top seeds England will meet second seeds France in the final of the European Junior (U19) Team Squash Championships after both teams came through the semi-finals in Herentals, Belgium, in 2/1 scorelines.

England dropped their first match of the tournament against hosts Belgium, the fourth seeds, when Emma Beddoes went down 4-9 6-9 9-5 1-9 to Belgium's Charlie De Rycke in a repeat of last week's women's individual final.  Emphatic straight games victories by Laurence Delasaux, the men's individual title-holder, and Chris Simpson over Rik Smet and Bart Govaerts, respectively, put England into the final where they will be hoping to win the title for the 20th year in succession.

In the other semi-final, France beat Germany, the third seeds.