2016 Women's World Team Squash Championships
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The 2016 Women's World Team Squash Championships is the women's edition of the 2016
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
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, France and takes place from November 27 to December 3, 2016. The tournament is organized by the
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and the
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. The Egypt team won its third World Team Championships, beating the England team in the final.


Participating teams

17 teams competed in these world championships from all of the five confederations:
Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
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Seeds


Squads

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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Omneya Abdel Kawy Omneya Abdel Kawy ( ar, أمنية عبد القوي; 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 ...
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New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
* Megan Craig * Emma Millar ;
India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
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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 th ...
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Dipika Pallikal Dipika Pallikal Karthik (née Pallikal; born 21 September 1991) is an Indian professional squash player. She is the first Indian to break into the top 10 in the PSA Women's rankings. Dipika Pallikal came to prominence in 2011, when she won th ...
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Akanksha Salunkhe Akanksha Salunkhe, also known as Akanksha Hemant Salunkhe (born 24 January 1999 in Satara district, Satara), is an Indian professional squash player. As of April 2022, she was ranked number 99 Official Women's Squash World Ranking, in the world. ...
* Sunayna Kuruvilla ;
Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
* Diana García *
Nayelly Hernández Nayelly Hernández (born 23 February 1986) is a Mexican former professional squash player. She has represented Mexico internationally in several international competitions including the Central American and Caribbean Games, Pan American Games, W ...
* Dina Anguiano * Sarahi Lopez ;
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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
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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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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 ...
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Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...
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Tesni Evans Tesni Evans (born 15 October 1992 in Cardiff) is a professional squash player who represents Wales and is a five time Welsh national squash champion. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No.9 in November 2018, becoming the highest-ra ...
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Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
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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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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 playin ...
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Rachel Arnold Rachel Mae Arnold (born 16 April 1996) is a Malaysian female squash player represents Malaysia women's national squash team. She is the younger sister of a fellow Malaysian squash player, Delia Arnold. Career Rachel started her squash internat ...
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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. ...
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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 Aug ...
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Donna Urquhart Donna Lobban, also known as Donna Belle Urquhart, (born 19 December 1986) is a professional squash Squash may refer to: Sports * Squash (sport), the high-speed racquet sport also known as squash racquets * Squash (professional wrestling), ...
* Christine Nunn * Tamika Saxby ;
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* Milou van der Heijden *
Natalie Grinham Natalie Marie Grinham (born 16 March 1978 in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian professional squash player. During her career, she has won three Commonwealth Games Gold Medals, and finished runner-up at both the World Open an ...
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Tessa Ter Sluis Tessa ter Sluis (born 16 January 1995 in Sint Willebrord) is a Dutch professional squash player. As of March 2022, she is ranked number 62 in the world. , her highest ranking is number 56. She has been in the Netherlands women's national squash t ...
* Milja Dorenbos ;
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Birgit Coufal Birgit Coufal, (born June 21, 1985 in Vienna) is a professional squash player who represents Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eas ...
* Sandra Polak * Sabrina Rehman * Judith van der Merwe ;
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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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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 ...
* Liu Tsz Ling * Tong Tsz Wing ;
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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 * Chloé Mesic * Laura Pomportes ;
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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 ...
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Satomi Watanabe is a Japanese professional squash player. As of February 2018, she was ranked number 47 in the world ''In the World'' is an album by jazz saxophonist Clifford Jordan which was recorded in 1969 and released on the Strata-East label in 1972. Th ...
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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 ...
* Mami Sakai ;
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* Sina Wall * Sharon Sinclair *
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 ...
* Saskia Beinhard ;
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* Xisela Aranda Núñez * Cristina Gómez * Marta Latorre Ramirez * Marina De Juan Gallach


Group stage


Pool A

;November 28, 2016 ;November 29, 2016 ;November 30, 2016


Pool B

;November 28, 2016 ;November 29, 2016 ;November 30, 2016


Pool C

;November 28, 2016 ;November 29, 2016 ;November 30, 2016


Pool D

;November 28, 2016 ;November 29, 2016 ;November 30, 2016


Finals


Draw


Results


Quarterfinals


Semifinals


Final


Post-tournament team ranking


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


FFSquash WebsiteWomen's World Team Squash Championships 2016 Official Website
{{World championships in 2016 Squash tournaments in France World Squash Championships Womens World W 2016 in women's squash International sports competitions hosted by France