World Junior Squash Championships

World Junior Open
Details
Event name	World Junior Squash Championships
Website wsfworldjuniors.com
Men's Winner
Most recent champion(s)	Mohamad Zakaria
Women's Winner
Most recent champion(s)	Amina Orfi

The World Junior Squash championships are the official junior tournament in the game of squash conducted by the World Squash Federation (WSF). ^{[1] [2]} Entry is open to individuals aged 19 and below. ^{[3] [4]} Since its inception, the world juniors has been held biennially with the junior men (individual and team) held one year, junior women (individual and team) the following year. ^{[5] [6]} The men's team event was held unofficially from 1973 to 1979. ^[7] The individuals event (for both men's and women's) are held annually starting from 2009 while the team event remains biennial. ^{[5] [6]}

Men's individual

Jansher Khan won the World Junior individual title in Brisbane in 1986. Making him the only player in the history of squash who was also the World Open Champion during the same year.

Chris Dittmar was the runner-up for the individual championship in 1980 and 1982.

Year	Venue	Champion	Runner-up	Scoreline
1980	Kungälv	Peter Nance	Chris Dittmar	6–9, 9–7, 9–2, 9–6
1982	Kuala Lumpur	Sohail Qaiser	Chris Dittmar	3–9, 10–8, 9–4, 9–3
1984	Calgary	Chris Robertson	David Lloyd	9–0, 9–5, 9–0
1986	Brisbane	Jansher Khan	Rodney Eyles	9–3, 9–0, 9–2
1988	Edinburgh	Del Harris	Anthony Hill	9–6, 5–9, 7–9, 9–7, 9–2
1990	Paderborn	Simon Parke	David Campion	9–7, 9–4, 9–1
1992	Hong Kong	Juha Raumolin	Jonathon Power	5–9, 9–3, 9–7, 9–2
1994	Christchurch	Ahmed Barada	Omar El Borolossy	9–0, 7–9, 3–9, 9–3, 9–2
1996	Cairo	Ahmed Faizy	Stewart Boswell	9–6, 3–9, 9–7, 9–6
1998	Princeton	Ong Beng Hee	Wael El Hindi	7–9, 9–5, 9–0, 9–5
2000	Milan	Karim Darwish	Grégory Gaultier	9–1, 9–3, 9–7
2002	Chennai	James Willstrop	Peter Barker	9–0, 9–3, 9–1
2004	Islamabad	Ramy Ashour	Yasir Butt	9–5, 10–8, 9–3
2006	Palmerston North	Ramy Ashour	Omar Mosaad	9–1, 9–3, 9–1
2008	Zürich	Mohamed El Shorbagy	Aamir Atlas Khan	2–9, 9–3, 10–8, 9–4
2009	Chennai	Mohamed El Shorbagy	Ivan Yuen	11–9, 12–10, 11–2
2010	Quito	Amr Khaled Khalifa	Ali Farag	8–11, 11–9, 12–10, 11–7
2011	Herentals	Marwan El Shorbagy	Mohamed Abouelghar	11–6, 11–6, 11–8
2012	Doha	Marwan El Shorbagy	Mohamed Abouelghar	11–9, 7–11, 11–7, 11–8
2013	Wrocław	Karim El Hammamy	Fares Dessouky	11–8, 11–6, 6–11, 13–11
2014	Windhoek	Diego Elías	Omar El Atmas	11–3, 11–2, 11–1
2015	Eindhoven [8]	Diego Elías	Youssef Soliman	11–6, 11–9, 11–8
2016	Bielsko-Biała	Eain Yow Ng	Saadeldin Abouaish	11–3, 9–11 11–7, 11–5
2017	Tauranga	Marwan Tarek	Victor Crouin	11–9, 3–11, 11–6, 3–11, 11–2
2018	Chennai	Mostafa Asal	Marwan Tarek	11–7, 13–11, 11–4
2019	Kuala Lumpur	Mostafa Asal	Moustafa El Sirty	12–10, 11–3, 11–6
2020	Gold Coast	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. [9]
2022	Maxéville	Rowan Damming	Finnlay Withington	11–4, 12–10, 11–8
2023	Melbourne	Hamza Khan	Mohamed Zakaria	10–12, 14–12, 11–3, 11–6
2024	Houston	Mohamad Zakaria	Na Joo-young	11–6, 11–4, 11–6
2025	New Cairo

Women's individual

Nicol David is the first squash player to have won the individual World Junior title twice (1999 and 2001).

Nour El Sherbini holds the record with three world titles, including the youngest world junior champion at the age of 13.

The women's individual championship is the WSA Junior Tier 1 tournament and players who compete in the tournament are awarded ranking points for the official "Rising Stars" rankings. ^[10]

Year	Venue	Champion	Runner-up	Scoreline
1981	Ottawa	Lisa Opie	Martine Le Moignan	9–4, 9–6, 10–8
1983	Perth	Robyn Friday	Helen Paradeiser	10–8, 9–2, 9–3
1985	Dublin	Lucy Soutter	Sarah Fitz-Gerald	9–1, 9–1, 9–6
1987	Brighton	Sarah Fitz-Gerald	Donna Vardy	9–0, 9–6, 9–0
1989	Hamilton	Donna Vardy	Lynora Hati	9–2, 9–1, 9–3
1991	Bergen	Cassie Jackman	Sabine Schöne	9–1, 4–9, 9–6, 6–9, 9–0
1993	Kuala Lumpur	Rachael Grinham	Sarah Cook	9–6, 5–9, 9–5, 9–1
1995	Sydney	Jade Wilson	Rachael Grinham	9–3, 9–4, 9–7
1997	Rio de Janeiro	Tania Bailey	Isabelle Stoehr	9–6, 9–1, 9–7
1999	Antwerp	Nicol David	Leong Siu Lynn	9–5, 9–3, 9–2
2001	Penang	Nicol David	Omneya Abdel Kawy	9–2, 9–4, 9–2
2003	Cairo	Omneya Abdel Kawy	Amnah El Trabolsy	9–0, 9–6, 9–4
2005	Herentals	Raneem El Weleily	Joshna Chinappa	9–3, 9–4, 10–8
2007	Hong Kong	Raneem El Weleily	Camille Serme	9–2, 9–4, 5–9, 9–3
2009	Chennai	Nour El Sherbini	Nour El Tayeb	5–11, 11–7, 11–6, 11–5
2010	Cologne	Amanda Sobhy	Nour El Tayeb	3–11, 11–7, 11–6, 11–7
2011	Boston	Nour El Tayeb	Nour El Sherbini	11–5, 3–11, 11–7, 11–8
2012	Doha	Nour El Sherbini	Yathreb Adel	10–12, 11–9, 11–5, 11–2
2013	Wrocław	Nour El Sherbini	Mariam Metwally	11–7, 16–14, 11–8
2014	Windhoek	Habiba Mohamed	Nouran Gohar	6–11, 11–2, 11–7, 11–6
2015	Eindhoven	Nouran Gohar	Habiba Mohamed	11–6, 7–11, 11–7, 17–15
2016	Bielsko-Biała	Nouran Gohar	Rowan Elaraby	11–5, 11–6, 11–7
2017	Tauranga	Rowan Elaraby	Hania El Hammamy	11–7, 11–9, 11–8
2018	Chennai	Rowan Elaraby	Hania El Hammamy	11–4, 11–9, 10–12, 11–9
2019	Kuala Lumpur	Hania El Hammamy	Jana Shiha	11–9, 11–6, 11–8
2020	Gold Coast	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. [11]
2022	Maxéville	Amina Orfi	Salma El Tayeb	9–11, 1–11, 11–6, 11–3, 11–7
2023	Melbourne	Amina Orfi	Aira Azman	11–8, 11–5, 11–1
2024	Houston	Amina Orfi	Fayrouz Aboelkheir	11–7, 15–13, 11–5
2025	New Cairo

Men's team

The team event was started unofficially in April 1973 to coincide with the British Junior Open tournament which was held annually in Britain. Only four countries (England, Scotland, Wales and Sweden) took part in the event which was held at the courts of the National Westminster Bank Sports Ground in South London, playing for a shield presented by the bank. ^[7]

The official men's world team championship tournament has been held since 1980. It has been won by 4 countries. The record number of countries participating in a single men's team tournament is 31, in the 2000 and the 2008 tournament held in Milan, Italy and Zürich, Switzerland respectively. ^[7]

*	Unofficial championship [a]

Year	Winner	Score in final	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place
1973	England	–	Sweden	Wales	Scotland
1974	England	–	South Africa	Scotland	Wales
1975	England	–	Egypt	Scotland	Wales
1976	England	–	Sweden	Scotland	Wales
1977	England	–	Sweden	Ireland	Wales
1978	Australia	–	Sweden	England	Pakistan
1979	Pakistan	–	England	Canada	Sweden
1980	Australia (1)	2–1	Pakistan (1)	New Zealand (1)	England (1)
1982	Pakistan (1)	2–1	Australia (1)	England (1)	New Zealand (1)
1984	Australia (2)	2–1	England (1)	Pakistan (1)	Canada (1)
1986	Australia (3)	3–0	England (2)	Pakistan (2)	Canada (2)
1988	Australia (4)	2–1	Pakistan (2)	England (2)	New Zealand (2)
1990	England (1)	2–1	Australia (2)	Pakistan (3)	Finland (1)
1992	Australia (5)	2–1	England (3)	Canada (1)	Egypt (1)
1994	Egypt (1)	3–0	England (4)	Finland (1)	Australia (1)
1996	England (2)	2–1	Egypt (1)	Pakistan (4)	Switzerland (1)
1998	England (3)	2–1	Egypt (2)	Pakistan (5)	France (1)
2000	England (4)	2–1	Egypt (3)	Pakistan (6)	France (2)
2002	Pakistan (2)	2–1	England (5)	Egypt (1)	Australia (2)
2004	Pakistan (3)	2–1	Egypt (4)	England (3)	Kuwait (1)
2006	Egypt (2)	2–1	Pakistan (3)	Malaysia (1)	England (2)
2008	Pakistan (4)	2–0	Egypt (5)	England (4)	India (1)
2010	Egypt (3)	2–1	Pakistan (4)	Canada (2)	England (3)
2012	Egypt (4)	2–0	Pakistan (5)	India (1)	England (4)
2014	Egypt (5)	2–0	Pakistan (6)	Spain (1)	Malaysia (1)
2016	Pakistan (5)	2–1	Egypt (6)	England (5) /   United States (1)
2018	Egypt (6)	2–0	England (6)	Czech Republic (1) /   United States (2)
2020	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. [12]
2022	England (5)	2–1	Egypt (7)	Malaysia (2) /   Pakistan (7)
2024	Egypt (7)	2–0	South Korea (1)	Colombia (1) /   United States (3)

Women's team

Official women's world team championship tournaments has been held since 1985. It has been won by 4 different countries. The record number of countries participating in a single tournament is 20, in the 2005 tournament held in Herentals, Belgium. ^[13]

Year	Winner	Score in final	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place
1985	Australia (1)	2–1	England (1)	New Zealand (1)	Scotland (1)
1987	England (1)	2–1	Australia (1)	New Zealand (2)	Canada (1)
1989	England (2)	–	Australia (2)	West Germany (1)	New Zealand (1)
1991	England (3)	3–0	Australia (3)	West Germany (2)	New Zealand (2)
1993	Australia (2)	2–1	New Zealand (1)	Egypt (1)	England (1)
1995	Australia (3)	2–1	England (2)	New Zealand (3)	Germany (1)
1997	England (4)	2–1	New Zealand (2)	Malaysia (1)	Belgium (1)
1999	Egypt (1)	2–1	England (3)	Malaysia (2)	Australia (1)
2001	England (5)	2–1	Malaysia (1)	Egypt (2)	United States (1)
2003	Egypt (2)	3–0	Australia (4)	England (1)	India (1)
2005	Hong Kong (1)	2–1	Egypt (2)	England (3)	United States (2)
2007	Egypt (3)	2–0	Malaysia (2)	New Zealand (4)	Hong Kong (1)
2009	Egypt (4)	2–0	Hong Kong (1)	India (1)	United States (3)
2011	Egypt (5)	2–1	United States (1)	Hong Kong (1)	India (3)
2013	Egypt (6)	2–0	United States (2)	Hong Kong (2)	England (2)
2015	Egypt (7)	2–0	United States (3)	England (4) /   Malaysia (3)
2017	Egypt (8)	2–0	Malaysia (3)	England (5) /   Hong Kong (4)
2019	Egypt (9)	2–0	Malaysia (4)	England (6) /   Hong Kong (5)
2023	Egypt (10)	2–0	Malaysia (4)	England (7) /   United States (4)
2024	Egypt (11)	2–0	United States (4)	Canada (2) /   Malaysia (4)

Statistics

Titles by country (Men)

Individual 15    Egypt 3    England 3    Pakistan 2    Australia 2    Malaysia 2    Peru 1    Finland

Team 7  Egypt 5  Australia 5  Pakistan 5  England

Titles by country (Women)

Individual 16    Egypt 5    England 3    Australia 2    Malaysia 1    New Zealand 1    United States

Team 11  Egypt 5  England 3  Australia 1  Hong Kong

See also

• World Junior Squash Circuit
• World Squash Team Championships
• World Squash Championships
• British Junior Open Squash

Notes

• ^a The men's team event was held unofficially from 1973 to 1979.

References

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2. "Dipika Pallikal & Mohamed El Shorbagy Are Top World Junior Seeds". SquashInfo. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
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5. "Schoolgirl stuns squash world". Al-Ahram Weekly. Archived from the original on 5 September 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
6. "Dipika Pallikal & Mohamed El Shorbagy Are Top World Junior Seeds". SquashInfo.com. June 26, 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
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12. "WSF World Juniors 2020 : Cancelled". worldsquash.org. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
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External links

• World Junior Championship 2016 host official website (in English and Polish)
• 2010 World Junior Squash Championships official site (in Spanish)
• World Squash Federation official website