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2014 Women's World Open Squash Championship
The 2014 Women's World Open Squash Championship is the women's edition of the 2014 World Championships, which serves as the individual world championship for squash players. The event took place in Cairo, Egypt from December 15 to 20, 2014. Nicol David won her eighth World Open title, beating Raneem El Weleily in the final. Prize money and ranking points For 2014, the prize purse was $150,000. The prize money and points breakdown is as follows: Seeds Draw and results See also * World Championship *2014 Men's World Open Squash Championship *2014 Women's World Team Squash Championships The 2014 Women's World Team Squash Championships was the women's edition of the 2014 World Team Squash Championships, which is the world team championship for squash players. The event was held in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, from December 1 to De ... References External linksWSA World Championship 2014 website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachael Grinham
Rachael Margaret Grinham (born 22 January 1977 in Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Australian professional squash player. She won the World Open in 2007, and the British Open in 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2009. She reached the World No. 1 ranking in August 2004 and held it for 16 consecutive months. Career Early years Rachael has a great pedigree as a squash player. Winner of the World Junior title in 1993 aged 16, she had an opportunity to defend in 1995, but was beaten by Jade Wilson from New Zealand in the final. Around that time she was also part of the Australian Institute of Sport squad. Since joining the WISPA World Tour during 1994, her array of strokes and strong temperament initially took her steadily towards the top 20, a barrier she finally breached in the middle of 1997. She won her first tournament in 1998 when she was 22 years old, beating Tracey Shenton for the Open Toulouse Central in France. She also lost to Tracey Shenton in the same year at the Isostar-Beverwijk tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshna Chinappa
Joshna Chinappa (born 15 September 1986) is an Indian professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 10 in July 2016. She was the first Indian to win the British Junior Squash Championship title in 2005 in the under-19 category and was also the youngest Indian women's national champion. She is the current record-holder of most national championship wins, with 18 titles. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games Joshna, along with Dipika Pallikal Karthik, won the squash women's doubles gold medal, India's first-ever Commonwealth Games medal in the sport. The pair won a silver medal at the event's 2018 Gold Coast edition, losing to team New Zealand, Joelle King and Amanda Landers-Murphy. Joshna trains at the Indian Squash Academy, Chennai. At the 2017 Women's Asian Individual Squash Championships, she won the gold medal, becoming the first Asian Squash Champion from India. In April 2018, Joshna upset Nicol David in the second round, in straight games, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolette Fernandes
Nicolette Fernandes, (born June 19, 1983) is a professional squash player who represented Guyana. She won the only gold medal for Guyana at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games in Colombia beating Samantha Terán in the final which lasts in 5 sets. In 2007, Fernandes suffered a knee injury which kept her out of action for 23 months. In February 2010, Fernandes was named Guyanese Sportswoman of the year for the year 2009 by the Guyanese National Sports Commission (NSC). Fernandes also appears in the WISPA 2010 calendar girl which features the top WISPA squash players in designer swimwear. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 19 in October 2013. On 28 August 2022, Fernandes became the first Guyanese to win a World Master's title when she secured a gold medal at the World Master's Championship in Poland. She is of Portuguese descent. Career statistics Listed as the following:- Professional Tour Titles (1) All Results for Nicolette Fernandes in WISPA World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Kippax
Sarah Campion (born 10 May 1983 in Chester), also known by her former name Sarah Kippax, is former professional squash player who represented England Career Based in Halifax became the first English woman in almost ten years to win three successive women's world tour titles when she clinched the Malco Open in Sweden in March 2009. She enjoyed a whirlwind second half to the year 2010 after she was selected for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. In the singles she reached the third round as the 10th seed. She also reached the quarter finals of the doubles. Soon after, she was part of the English team that won the silver medal at the 2010 Women's World Team Squash Championships. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 15 in November 2011. In 2012, she was part of the England team that won the silver medal at the 2012 Women's World Team Squash Championships. Campion retired in 2014 and became the head coach at the Queens' Sport Club in Halifax. Personal life She marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nouran Ahmed Gohar
Nouran Ahmed Gohar ( ar, نوران أحمد جوهر; born 30 September 1997 in Egypt) is a professional squash player who represents Egypt. She reached a career-high world ranking of No. 1 in July 2020. Career She lifted her first Tour title at the Prague Open in December 2013 at 16 years of age, where she played to her seeding to see off Lucie Fialová to triumph. Gohar earned another title the following year at the Irish Open before her victory over Omneya Abdel Kawy in the final of the Monte Carlo Classic elevated her into the world's top 20 for the first time. A quarter-final finish at the Texas Open in April 2015 ensured that Gohar would breach the top 15 in the world. Nouran Gohar won the prestigious British Junior Open three times: in 2012, 2015, and 2016. She also was a two time World Junior Squash champion, winning two back to back titles in 2015 and 2016. In 2016, she was part of the Egyptian team that won the gold medal at the 2016 Women's World Team Squash Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delia Arnold
Delia Arnold (born 26 January 1986, in Kuala Lumpur) is a former professional squash player who represented Malaysia. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 12. Career Arnold, coached by Ahmed Malik and Peter Genever began playing on the PSA tour in 2003 and reached 48th spot in the world rankings by February 2006. More than ten months later, she moved up at the 34th spot. In 2010, she was part of the Malaysian team that won the bronze medal at the 2010 Women's World Team Squash Championships. Two years later in 2012, she was again part of the Malaysian team that won the bronze medal at the 2012 Women's World Team Squash Championships. In 2014, she was part of the Malaysian team that won the silver medal at the 2014 Women's World Team Squash Championships. In May 2015 she defeated world No.3 Alison Waters from England, world No.11 Annie Au from Hong Kong and world No.3 Raneem El Weleily from Egypt in the 2015 Women's British Open Squash Championship where s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nouran El Torky
Nouran El Torky, (born November 7, 1992, in Alexandria) is a professional squash player who represents Egypt. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 41 in January 2015. Her older sister Heba The Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association (HEBA, el, Ελληνικός Σύνδεσμος Ανωνύμων Καλαθοσφαιρικών Εταιρειών, ΕΣΑΚΕ) is a governing body for basketball in Greece. It directs the 14 pro Greek ... is also a professional squash player. References External links * * * Egyptian female squash players Living people 1992 births Sportspeople from Alexandria {{Egypt-squash-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Whitlock
Emily Whitlock, (born 15 February 1994 in Macclesfield, England) is a professional squash Squash may refer to: Sports * Squash (sport), the high-speed racquet sport also known as squash racquets * Squash (professional wrestling), an extremely one-sided match in professional wrestling * Squash tennis, a game similar to squash but pla ... player who represents Wales. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 12 in November, 2017. Whitlock is one of the most talented young British players on the PSA World Tour and already has a vast array of Tour titles in her burgeoning career. After making solid progress up the World Rankings, she captured three successive titles at the start of 2012 and repeated the feat at the end of the year. Five titles followed in 2013 and 2014 before she lifted her first PSA Challenger 15 title at the Courtcare Open in May 2015. Her performances there didn't go unnoticed and she joined the elite top 20 players in the world a month later. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yathreb Adel
Yathreb Adel, (born 6 March 1996 in Cairo) is an Egyptian professional squash player who represents Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter .... She reached a career high world ranking of World No.13 in July 2020. References External links * * * Egyptian female squash players Living people 1996 births Squash players from Cairo 21st-century Egyptian women 21st-century Egyptian people {{Egypt-squash-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Beddoes
Emma Beddoes (29 August 1985 in Leamington Spa) is a former English professional squash player who represented England. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. #11 in September 2015. Career Beddoes made her first Tour appearance in 2004 and went on to reach the world's top 50 in less than two years. She won her first Tour title at the 2007 Colombo Open where she defeated number one seed Tricia Chuah in straight games. In 2014, she was part of the team that helped England reclaim the world team title by winning the gold medal at the 2014 Women's World Team Squash Championships. Also in 2014, she won the bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, competing in the women's doubles with Alison Waters they reached the semi final stage before securing the medal by beating the Australian pair of Rachael Grinham and Kasey Brown Kasey Brown (born 1 August 1985) is a former professional squash player from Australia. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah-Jane Perry
Sarah-Jane Perry (born 15 May 1990 in Birmingham) is a professional squash player who represents England and Great Britain. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 5 in July 2020. Education Perry was educated at Kenilworth School, Kenilworth, UK, and then graduated from Warwick University, England with a BEng (Hons) degree in 2011. Squash career Perry had a successful junior career, culminating in winning the European Under 19 Individual Championships in Cologne and the British Under 19 Championships, both in 2009. She won two further British National Championships, at the Under 23 level in 2012 and 2013. Perry was part of the victorious England team at the 2013 European Squash Championships, her first selection at senior level. She represented Great Britain at the 2013 World Games in Cali, Colombia where she reached the quarter-finals, losing to the eventual winner Nicol David. Perry broke into the top 20 just prior to her 23rd Birthday and reached her highest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
