The 2018 Women's World Team Squash Championships was the women's edition of the 2018
World Team Squash Championships
The WSF World Team Squash Championships are an international squash competition organised by the World Squash Federation (WSF) and played between teams representing different nations. Countries enter teams of three or four players to represent t ...
, which serves as the world team championship for
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 ...
players. The event held in
Dalian
Dalian () is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China. Located on the ...
, China took place from 11 to 19 September 2018. The tournament was organized by the
World Squash Federation
The World Squash Federation (WSF) is the Sport governing body, international federation for Squash (sport), squash, an indoor racket sport which was formerly called "squash rackets". The WSF is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (I ...
and the
Chinese Squash Association. The
Egypt team won its fourth World Team Championships, beating the
England team in the final.
Participating teams
16 teams competed in these world championships from all of the five confederations:
Africa
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,
America
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,
Asia
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,
Europe
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and
Oceania
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.
Seeds
Squads
;
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 ...
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Nour El Sherbini
Nour El Sherbini ( ar, نور الشربيني; born 1 November 1995) is an Egyptian professional squash player. She is a six time World champion and became the youngest woman to win the Women's World Championship (2015). In 2016, she retained h ...
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Nour El Tayeb
Nour El Tayeb ( ar, نور الطيب; born March 8, 1993, in Cairo) is a professional squash player who represents Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast ...
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Nouran 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 a ...
*
Raneem El Weleily
Raneem Mohamed Yasser Saad El Din El Welily ( ar, رنيم محمد ياسر سعد الدين الوليلي; born 1 January 1989, in Alexandria, Egypt) is a former professional squash player from Egypt. She has reached a career-high world ranki ...
;
Canada
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Danielle Letourneau
Danielle Catherine Letourneau (born May 3, 1993) is a Canadian professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 18 in December 2021. She also represented Cornell University (2011–15) and played in the number 1 p ...
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Hollie Naughton
Hollie Naughton, (born October 21, 1994, in Barnsley) is a Canadian professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 16 in January 2022. In 2016, she won her first Canadian Nationals title. She competed at the 2015 ...
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Nikki Todd
Nikki Todd, (born July 7, 1990) is a Canadian professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 49 in April 2018.
In January 2018, Todd was named to Canada's 2018 Commonwealth Games
The 2018 Commonwealth Gam ...
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Samantha Cornett
Samantha Jean Lardner Cornett, (born February 4, 1991) is a retired professional squash player who represents Canada. She is from Deep River, Ontario. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 23 in February 2018.
She has won 4 Canadia ...
;
Australia
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Alex Haydon
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Christine Nunn
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Donna Lobban
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Sarah Cardwell
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Germany
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*
Annika Wiese
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Franziska Hennes
Franziska Hennes (born 21 April 1992 in Homburg) is a professional squash player who represents Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in ...
*
Nele Hatschek
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Saskia Beinhard
;
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
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Laura Massaro
Laura Jane Massaro (née Lengthorn; born 2 November 1983) is a retired professional squash player from England.
Career
She was born in Great Yarmouth and attended Albany High School, Chorley, which is now called Albany Academy. In July 2007, ...
*
Alison Waters
Alison Waters (born 19 March 1984 in London) is a former professional squash player from England.
Career
As a junior player, Waters won her first major squash tournament – the British Under-12 title – at the age of nine-and-a-half. She ret ...
*
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 ...
*
Victoria Lust
Victoria Lust (born 2 May 1989 in Luton) is an English former professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 12 in June 2019.
Career
In 2016, she was part of the English team that won the silver medal at the 20 ...
;
New Zealand
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Abbie Palmer
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Amanda Landers-Murphy
Amanda Landers-Murphy (born 7 June 1991 in Rotorua) is a New Zealand professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of world No. 35 in February 2013. Of Māori descent, Landers-Murphy affiliates to Te Āti Awa
Te Āti Awa ...
*
Joelle King
Joelle King (born 30 September 1988) is a professional squash player who represents New Zealand. 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 ...
*
Kaitlyn Watts
;
Japan
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*
Ayumi Watanabe
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Misaki Kobayashi
is a professional squash player who represents Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea o ...
*
Risa Sugimoto
is a Japanese female professional squash player who represents Japan women's national squash team internationally. She achieved her highest career PSA world ranking of 127 in January 2018 during the 2017-18 PSA World Tour.
Career
She enter ...
*
Satomi Watanabe
is a Japanese professional squash player. As of February 2018, she was ranked number 47 in the world
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;
Finland
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Emilia Korhonen
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Emilia Soini
*
Riina Koskinen
;
United States
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Amanda Sobhy
Amanda Sobhy (born June 29, 1993; Sea Cliff, New York) is an American squash player. A five-time national champion, she was the first U.S.-born player to reach the top five in the Professional Squash Association (PSA) world rankings. She reached ...
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Olivia Blatchford
Olivia Clyne, (née Blatchford; born January 23, 1993 in New York City) is a professional squash player who represents the United States.
Career
Blatchford's junior accomplishments included winning the British Junior Open Girls under-15 event i ...
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Reeham Sedky
Reeham Sedky (born 24 April 1997 in Seattle, United States) is an American professional squash player. As of August 2019, she was ranked number 58 in the world. In 2016 she was named player of the year by the United States Olympic Committee.
She ...
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Sabrina Sobhy
Sabrina Sobhy, (born December 30, 1996 in Long Island) is a professional squash player who represents the United States. She reached a career high world ranking of World No. 15 in November 2022.
Sobhy is class of 2019 at Harvard University havin ...
;
France
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Camille Serme
Camille Serme (born 4 April 1989 in Créteil) is a former professional squash player from France. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 2 in February 2017.
Career
As a junior player, Camille Serme won three European Junior Champi ...
*
Coline Aumard
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Énora Villard
Énora Villard (born 27 October 1993 in Aix-en-Provence) is a French professional Squash (sport), squash player. As of February 2018, she was ranked number 66 Official Women's Squash World Ranking, in the world.
Career
In 2018, she was part of t ...
*
Mélissa Alves
;
India
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Aparajitha Balamurukan
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Dimple Mathivanan
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Sunayna Kuruvilla
*
Tanvi Khanna
;
China
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*
He Xinru
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Li Dong Jin
*
Peng Zhenni
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Malaysia
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Aifa Azman
Aifa Azman (born 18 December 2001 in Kedah) is a Malaysian professional squash player. As of December 2021, she was ranked number 36 in the world.
Career
She won the 2018 Malaysian Squash Tour II and 2021 Malaysian Open Squash Championships pr ...
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Low Wee Wern
Low Wee Wern (; born 25 July 1990 in Penang, Malaysia) is a Malaysian professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 5 in October 2014.
Personal life
Low attended Methodist Girls' School, Penang for her prim ...
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Nicol David
Datuk Nicol Ann David (born August 26, 1983) is a retired female Malaysian professional squash player. Beginning in August 2006, David was the world number one for a record-breaking 108 consecutive months, finally ceding the ranking in Septembe ...
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Sivasangari Subramaniam
Sivasangari Subramaniam (born 24 January 1999, in Sungai Petani) is a Malaysian professional squash player. As of May 2022, she was ranked number 20 in the world. She became the 2018 British Junior Open Champion by defeating Satomi Watanabe.
...
;
Hong Kong
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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 who has made a great impression as a junior. Not only winning British Ju ...
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Ho Tze-Lok
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Joey Chan
Joey Chan Ho-ling (; born May 20, 1988, in Hong Kong), known as Joey Chan, is a former professional squash player who represents Hong Kong. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 16 in May 2012.
Career
Chan joined the Tour in 20 ...
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Lee Ka Yi
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South Africa
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Alexandra Fuller
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Elani Landman
Elani Landman (born 18 October 1993 in Port Elizabeth) is a South African professional squash player. As of February 2018, she was ranked number 99 in the world
''In the World'' is an album by jazz saxophonist Clifford Jordan which was recorded ...
*
Lizelle Muller
*
Milnay Louw
;
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
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Céline Walser
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Cindy Merlo
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Gaby Hubber
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Nadia Pfister
Nadia Pfister (born 18 September 1995 in Basel) is a Swiss professional squash player. As of February 2018, she was ranked number 96 in the world and the best female Swiss player on the world tour of this year. She has represented Switzerland inte ...
Group stage
Pool A
;11 September
;12 September
;13 September
Pool B
;11 September
;12 September
;13 September
Pool C
;11 September
;12 September
;13 September
Pool D
;11 September
;12 September
;13 September
Finals
Draw
Results
Quarter-finals
Semi finals
Final
Final standings
See also
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World Team Squash Championships
The WSF World Team Squash Championships are an international squash competition organised by the World Squash Federation (WSF) and played between teams representing different nations. Countries enter teams of three or four players to represent t ...
References
External links
Women's World Team Squash Championships 2018 Official Website
{{World championships in 2018
Squash tournaments in China
World Squash Championships
Womens World
W
2018 in women's squash
International sports competitions hosted by China