The 2008 Women's World Team Squash Championships was the women's edition of the 2008

World Team Squash Championships The World Squash Team Championships are an international squash competition organised by the World Squash Federation and played between teams representing different nations. Countries enter teams of three or four players to represent them in th ...

organized by the

World Squash Federation World Squash, formerly World Squash Federation, is the Sport governing body, international federation for the indoor racket sport of Squash (sport), squash. It is recognised by the International Olympic Committee. It is also a member of the Glob ...

, which serves as the world team championship for

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players. The event was held in

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from November 30 to December 6, 2008. The tournament was organized by the

and the

Egyptian Squash Association The Egyptian Squash Federation is recognised as the Egyptian national governing body for the sport of Squash (sport), squash. The federation is responsible for the following tasks: * Decide public policies that lead to the deployment of squash i ...

. The Egypt team won their first World Team Championships, beating the English team in the final.

Participating teams

A total of 19 teams competed from all the five confederations:

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and

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. For

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, it was their first participation at a world team championship.

Seeds

Squads

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Jenny Duncalf Jennifer Duncalf (born 10 November 1982) is a former professional squash player from England. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 2 in December 2009. Biography Duncalf was born in Haarlem, Netherlands, but was a pupil at Ha ...

Alison Waters Alison Claire Waters (born 19 March 1984) is an English former professional squash player. She reached a career high ranking of 3 in the world during October 2010. Biography As a junior player, Waters won her first major squash tournament ...

* Laura Lengthorn-Massaro * Tania Bailey ;

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

Camille Serme Camille Serme (born 4 April 1989) is a French professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 2 in February 2017. Career As a junior player, Camille Serme won three consecutive European Junior Championship ...

* Célia Allamargot * Maud Duplomb * Coline Aumard ;

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Annie Au Annie Au Wing Chi (; born February 9, 1989), known as Annie Au, is a former professional squash player who represented Hong Kong. Career Annie is a left-hander from Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land a ...

Joey Chan Joey Chan Ho-ling (; born May 20, 1988, in Hong Kong), known as Joey Chan, is a former professional squash (sport), squash player who represents Hong Kong. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 16 in May 2012. Career Chan joine ...

* Leung Shin Nga * Liu Tsz Ling ;

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* Elisabet Sadó Garriga * Xisela Aranda Núñez * Stela Carbonell *

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Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

* Birgit Coufal * Pamela Pancis * Sandra Polak *

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Omneya Abdel Kawy Omneya Abdel Kawy (; born 15 August 1985, in Cairo) is a former professional squash player from Egypt. Career Omneya crowned a successful junior career in 2003 in her home city of Cairo when she became the first Egyptian woman to win the World ...

* Engy Kheirallah *

Raneem El Weleily Raneem Mohamed Yasser Saad El Din El Welily (; born 1 January 1989, in Alexandria, Egypt) is a former professional squash player from Egypt. She reached a career-high world ranking of No. 1 in September 2015. She is a three-time finalist at the ...

Heba El Torky Heba El Torky (born 15 January 1991 in Alexandria) is an Egyptian professional squash player. Career El Torky has represented Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeas ...

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Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

Kasey Brown Kasey Brown (born 1 August 1985) is an Australian former squash (sport), squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 5 in December 2011. Career Brown was born in Taree, New South Wales was the Australian junior champion ...

Donna Urquhart Donna Lobban, also known as Donna Belle Urquhart, (born 19 December 1986) is an Australian retired professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of 13 in May 2011. Early life Lobban was born Donna Belle Urquhart. Ca ...

* Lisa Camilleri * Amelia Pittock ;

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* Alana Miller * Runa Reta * Tara Mullins * Carolyn Russell ;

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

* Chinatsu Matsui *

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* Kozue Onizawa * Yuki Omiya ;

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* Gaby Schmohl * Sara Guebey * Jasmin Ballman * Andrea Lanfranconi ;

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Shelley Kitchen Shelley Celia Kitchen (born 2 December 1979, in Kaitaia, New Zealand) is a New Zealand professional squash player. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Kitchen beat World No. 1 Nicol David of Malaysia in the thi ...

Jaclyn Hawkes Jaclyn Hawkes (born 3 December 1982 in Hong Kong) is a New Zealand professional squash (sport), squash player. Hawkes grew up in Hong Kong and lived there until she was 15 when she moved to New Zealand. She started playing squash aged five ...

Louise Crome Louise Crome (born 6 April 1978, in Waihi, New Zealand) is a New Zealand former professional squash (sport), squash player. She toured for 3 years reaching a world ranking of 22. She was a member of the New Zealand Women's Team between 2004 - 20 ...

Joelle King Joelle King (born 30 September 1988) is a New Zealand professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 4 in April 2014. Early life King was born and raised in Cambridge, New Zealand. She is the youngest child ...

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Madeline Perry Madeline Perry (born 11 February 1977 in Banbridge, Northern Ireland) is a former professional squash player from Northern Ireland. She was raised in Northern Ireland and lives in Philadelphia. In November 2006 at the World Open in Belfast ...

* Aisling Blake * Laura Mylotte * Tania Owens ;

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Natalie Grainger Natalie Grainger (born 8 July 1977), also known for a period by her former married name Natalie Pohrer, is a former professional female squash player. Grainger was born in Manchester, United Kingdom but raised in South Africa, which she repre ...

* Claire Rein-Weston * Olivia Blatchford * Hope Prockop ;

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* Manuela Manetta * Sonia Pasteris * Chiara Ferrari * Veronica Favero Camp ;

* Wu Zhznzhen * Jiang Li * Xiu Chen * Ou Wei ;

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

Nicol David Malay titles#Datuk, Datuk Nicol Ann David (born August 26, 1983) is a Malaysian retired professional squash (sport), squash player. She was the world number one for a record-breaking 108 consecutive months, ceding the ranking in September 2015 ...

Sharon Wee Sharon Wee Ee Lin (born 5 October 1977 in Melaka) is a former professional squash player who represented Malaysia. Career During 2007, she reached the finals of four events and won her first WISPA title in November in the NSC Tour 10 No. 2 in ...

Delia Arnold Delia Arnold (born 26 January 1986, in Kuala Lumpur) is a former professional squash (sport), squash player who represented Malaysia. She reached a career-high ranking of World No. 12. Career Arnold, coached by Ahmed Malik and Peter Genever be ...

* Low Wee Wern ;

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Vanessa Atkinson Vanessa Louise Atkinson (born 10 March 1976 in Newcastle, England) is a former professional squash player from the Netherlands, who won the World Open in 2004 and reached the World No. 1 ranking in December 2005. Atkinson was born in Englan ...

Annelize Naudé Annelize Naudé (born 1 January 1977) is a Dutch former professional squash (sport), squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 13 in January 2006, and won five Women's International Squash Players Association, WISPA tour ...

* Orla Noom * Dagmar Vermeulen ;

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

* Kathrin Rohrmueller * Pamela Hathway * Sina Wall * ''Not Used'' ;

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* Farrah Sterne * Diana Argyle * Siyoli Lusaseni * Milnay Louw

Group stage results

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Finals

Draw

Results

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Post-tournament team ranking

References

External links

Women's World Team Squash Championships 2008 SquashSite Website
{{Women's World Team Squash World Squash Championships

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