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2015 Women's World Open Squash Championship
The 2015 Women's World Open Squash Championship is the women's edition of the 2015 World Championships, which serves as the individual world championship for squash players. It was originally scheduled to take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from December 11 to 18, 2015; with less than two weeks' notice, the event was deemed to have been cancelled after the event promoters allegedly cited "security fears" as justification for doing so. In response, Minister of Youth and Sports Khairy Jamaluddin claimed the event's cancellation was down to the promoters' failure to attract sponsorship and accused them of attempting to blackmail the Malaysian government with a demand for event funding (including RM3.5 million ($850,000) for private security arrangements) as a result. Upon settling an agreement with the new event promoters, the PSA confirmed the tournament was rescheduled to take place at the National Squash Centre between 25 and 30 April 2016 inclusive. It is the second time in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur (KL), officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, is the capital city and a Federal Territories of Malaysia, federal territory of Malaysia. It is the largest city in the country, covering an area of with a census population of 2,075,600 . Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 8.8 million people as of 2024. It is among the fastest growing metropolitan regions in Southeast Asia, both in population and economic development. The city serves as the cultural, financial, tourism, political and economic centre of Malaysia. It is also home to the Parliament of Malaysia, Malaysian parliament (consisting of the Dewan Rakyat and the Dewan Negara) and the Istana Negara, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Halim, Istana Negara, the official residence of the King of Malaysia, monarch (''Yang di-Pertuan Agong''). Kuala Lumpur was first developed around 1857 as a town serving the tin mining, tin mines of the region, and important figures such as Ya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nour El Tayeb
Nour El Tayeb (; born 8 March 1993) is a former professional squash player who represented Egypt. She reached a career-high ranking of World No. 3, in March 2018. Career The highlight of her junior career was reaching the final of the World Juniors in 2009 at age sixteen, beating top seed Dipika Pallikal of India on the way, before losing to compatriot Nour El Sherbini. In 2012, she was part of the team that regained the world team title after winning a gold medal at the 2012 Women's World Team Squash Championships. In 2014, she was part of the Egyptian team that won the bronze medal at the 2014 Women's World Team Squash Championships. In 2018, she was part of the Egyptian team that won the 2018 Women's World Team Squash Championships. In 2022, she was part of the Egyptian team that won the 2022 Women's World Team Squash Championships. It was her third world team title. In May 2023, she reached the quarter final of the 2023 PSA Women's World Squash Championship, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liu Tsz-Ling
Liu Tsz-Ling (born September 10, 1991 in Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...) is a Hong Kong retired professional squash player. She reached a career-high PSA ranking of World No. 23 in January 2017. Career In 2016, she was part of the Hong Kong team that won the bronze medal at the 2016 Women's World Team Squash Championships in France. References External links * * * 1991 births Living people Hong Kong female squash players Asian Games medalists in squash Asian Games silver medalists for Hong Kong Asian Games bronze medalists for Hong Kong Squash players at the 2010 Asian Games Squash players at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games 21st-century Hong Kong sportswomen {{HongK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Craig
Megan Craig (born 11 December 1992) is a New Zealand professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 39 in July 2015. References External links * * * New Zealand female squash players Living people 1992 births Squash players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games squash players for New Zealand People educated at Marlborough Girls' College Sportspeople from Blenheim, New Zealand 21st-century New Zealand sportswomen {{NewZealand-squash-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Whitlock
Emily Whitlock, (born 15 February 1994) is a professional squash player who represents Wales. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 12 in November 2017. Career Whitlock made solid progress up the world rankings, capturing 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 did not go unnoticed and she joined the elite top 20 players in the world a month later. References External links * * * * * * 1994 births Living people English female squash players Welsh female squash players Commonwealth Games competitors for Wales Squash players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Macclesfield 21st-century English sportswomen {{UK-squash-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariam Ibrahim Metwally
Mariam Ibrahim Metwally, (born November 11, 1996) is an Egyptian professional squash player. She reached a career-high PSA ranking of World No. 20 in April 2018. References External links * * * Egyptian female squash players Living people 1996 births 21st-century Egyptian sportswomen {{Egypt-squash-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Lust
Victoria Lust (born 2 May 1989 in Luton Luton () is a town and borough in Bedfordshire, England. The borough had a population of 225,262 at the 2021 census. Luton is on the River Lea, about north-west of London. The town's foundation dates to the sixth century as a Saxon settleme ...) is an English former professional squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 12 in June 2019. Biography In 2016, she was part of the English team that won the silver medal at the 2016 Women's World Team Squash Championships. Two years later, she was again a member of the silver medalist English team at the 2018 Women's World Team Squash Championships. Lust won four consecutive gold medals for the England women's national squash team at the European Squash Team Championships from 2015 to 2018. She retired from professional squash in March 2020. After that, she moved to Victoria, in British Columbia, and worked at St. Michaels University School as a squash t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Terán
Samantha Terán Quintanilla (born May 6, 1981, in Mexico City) is a professional female squash (sport), squash player who represents Mexico. Terán first joined the WISPA Tour in 2000, and she entered the world top twenty for the first time in 2008 as she won the eighth and ninth Tour titles of her career. These followed two in 2007, the Gannon Open and Toronto Open, in both events beating American Latasha Khan in the final. In early 2008 it was Khan who was despatched in the finals of the Liberty Bell and Windy City Open, Windy City Opens in the United States. The Mexican people, Mexican did it again in May to win the Subway Goshen Open, but this time Khan was beaten in the semis. Terán then captured another two titles at the end of June at Los Angeles Open, and at the Harrow Mexican Open, an event she had developed herself. Added to her twelve Tour titles are a gold medal in the Pan American Games and four golds in the Central American and Caribbean Games. Terán reached a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Harrogate Grammar School where she attended from 1994 to 2001. As a junior player, she won the European Junior Championship title. Duncalf won the European Individual Championship title in 2006 and 2007, and the British National Championship title in 2007 and 2009. She was also a member of the England team which won the World Team Squash Championships in 2006. In 2008, she finished runner-up at the British Open, losing in the final to Nicol David. Duncalf ended the year 2009 on a high when she won three titles in a row—the Soho Square Open, the US Open and the prestigious Qatar Classic. In October 2010, in the women's singles final of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, Duncalf was defeated by Nicol David 11–3, 11–5, 11–7 in 40 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 began playing on the PSA tour in 2003 and reached the World No. 48 rankings by February 2006. More than ten months later, she moved up to 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 sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshna Chinappa
Joshna Chinappa (born 15 September 1986) is an Indian professional Squash (sport), squash player. She reached a career-high world ranking of #10 in 2016. She was the first Indian to win the British Junior Open Squash, British Junior Open in 2005. Chinappa was the youngest Indian women's national champion and is the record-holder of most national championship wins with 18 titles. In 2024, she was awarded India's fourth-highest civilian honour, the Padma Shri by the Government of India. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games Joshna, along with Dipika Pallikal, won the doubles gold medal, India's first-ever Commonwealth Games medal in the sport. The pair won a silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, 2018 edition. At the Asian Individual Squash Championships, 2017 Asian 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 the El Gouna World Series Event. This was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah-Jane Perry
Sarah-Jane Catherine Perry (born 15 May 1990) 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. Biography Perry was educated at Kenilworth School, Kenilworth, and then graduated from Warwick University, England with a BEng (Hons) degree in 2011. 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 ranking of 14 after h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
