EUROPEAN SQUASH NEWS

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

Final:
[1]ENGLAND 3 [2]FRANCE 0 (Emma Beddoes bt Maud Duplomb 9-3 9-2 9-0; Laurence Delasaux bt Yann Perrin 9-2 9-2 9-3; Chris Simpson bt Mathieu Castagnet 9-2 9-3 (best of three))
    3rd place play-off:
[3]GERMANY 2 [4]BELGIUM 1 (Sandra Krüger lost to Charlie De Rycke 4-9 0-9 0-9; Simon Rösner bt Rik Smet  9-5 9-6 9-1; Matthias Maierhofer bt Bart Govaerts 9-0 7-9 8-10 9-4 9-7)
    5th place play-off:
[5]WALES 3 [7]FINLAND 0 (Rob Sutherland bt Hameed Ahmed 5-9 9-2 9-2 9-1; Lewys Hurst bt Matias Tuomi 10-8 9-0 9-3; Jessica Bevan bt Elina Kononen 9-6 9-5 (best of three))
    7th place play-off:
[6]SWEDEN 2 [9]NETHERLANDS 1 (Gustav Detter bt Sebastiaan Weenink 5-9 9-7 9-3 9-4; Sebastian Victor bt Martijn Kock 9-7 10-9 9-3; Anna Detter lost to Orla Noom 0-9 3-9 (best of three))
    9th place play-off:
[12]DENMARK 2 [8]SCOTLAND 1 (Michael Frilund bt Kristen Johnson 7-9 9-6 4-9 9-4 9-4; Kristian Gross Jeppesen bt Graham Melvin 9-4 1-9 9-5 9-6; Anne-Mette Pedersen lost to Lauren Gray 2-9 2-9 2-9)
    11th place play-off:
[14]CZECH REPUBLIC 3 [15]ISRAEL 0 (Jaroslav Cech bt Nir Arkin 9-4 4-9 10-8 10-8; Ondrej Ertl bt Nadav Tannen 9-5 7-9 9-7 3-9 9-0; Veronika Koukalova bt Rachel Montefiori 9-0 9-5 (best of three))
    13th place play-off:
[13]SWITZERLAND 2 [10]SPAIN 1 (Nicolas Muller bt Pedro Espeleta 1-9 9-7 9-7 9-4; Benjamin Fischer bt Eduardo Gonzalez  9-7 9-3 9-2; Julia Schmalz lost to Margaux Moros 2-9 0-9 0-9)
    15th place play-off:
[11]AUSTRIA 2 [16]IRELAND 1 (Aqeel Rehman bt David Noone 9-5 9-3 9-5; Lukas Gnauer lost to Sam Olwill 9-6 5-9 1-9 2-9; Birgit Coufal bt Ciara Moloney 9-3 9-7 9-2)
    17th place: [17]HUNGARY

England Triumph In European Junior Final

Top seeds England crushed second seeds France in the final of the European Junior (U19) Team Squash Championships to claim their 20th successive victory in the event in Herentals, Belgium.

After dropping their first match in the tournament against hosts Belgium in the semi-finals, England were in blistering form against their cross-Channel neighbours, winning 3-0 for the loss of only 17 points in three matches.

It was 'ladies first' as Emma Beddoes, runner-up in the individual event last week, took on France's Maud Duplomb in the opening match of the tie.  After her comfortable 9-3 9-2 9-0 victory, Beddoes' team-mate Laurence Delasaux, winner of the men's individual title, maintained his unbeaten record over the two events in Belgium to topple the French No1 Yann Perrin 9-2 9-2 9-3.

With the historic 20th title already won, England's second string Chris Simpson made it a 3-0 win by defeating France's surprise individual runner-up Mathieu Castagnet 9-2 9-3 in the best of three encounter.

Hosts Belgium, the fourth seeds, lost 1/2 to third seeds Germany in the play-off for third place - but Belgian star Charlie De Rycke, the women's individual champion, kept her unbeaten record over the week with a 9-4 9-0 9-0 win over Germany's Sandra Krüger.