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Day 4:
Teams through to Final Stages

Day 3:
Hosts Pakistan Punish Malaysia

Hosts Pakistan ended their qualifying campaign in the Big Time World Team Squash Championships in Islamabad by beating sixth seeds Malaysia 3/0 in today’s (Saturday) final tie in Pool F to finish ahead of their higher-seeded Asian rivals.

After Safeer Ullah Khan put the seventh seeds ahead when he beat recently-crowned South East Asian Games champion Mohd Nafiizwan Adnan 9-3 9-7 9-0, his Pakistan team-mate Mansoor Zaman, ranked 27 in the world, clinched victory for the hosts by fighting back from 2/1 down to overcome Ong Beng Hee, ranked 11 places higher, 9-6 0-9 9-10 9-8 9-3.

India justified their tenth seeding by overcoming Ireland 2/1 to finish in second place behind France in Pool C, thereby qualifying for a place in the knockout stages for the top 12 nations.

Favourites England swept to their third successive 3/0 win in the tournament with a comprehensive victory over Austria. Former world No1 Peter Nicol, playing for the first time as third string for his country, put the top seeds ahead with a 9-1 9-1 9-2 win over Austrian newcomer Stefan Brauneis.

Team-mate James Willstrop, the new world No2 and England No1, conceded just a single point as he destroyed Aqeel Rehman to ensure England’s anticipated status as winners of Pool A.

Defending champions Australia and former champions Egypt joined fellow top four seeds France and England with further 3/0 wins today – Australia beating Netherlands to head Pool D, and Egypt crushing New Zealand to finish at the top of Pool B. All four nations receive byes in the next knockout stage of the competition.

Germany became the only surprise team to claim a place in the knockout stage to win a top 12 place. After upsetting New Zealand in the first qualifying round, Germany clinched their place in the elite group by beating Iran 3/0.
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Day 2:

Scotland Fall To Malaysia In Pakistan

Scotland failed to convert a surprise first string win in today’s (Friday) second qualifying round tie in the Big Time World Team Squash Championships in Islamabad, Pakistan, and ultimately went down 2/1 to sixth seeds Malaysia to ensure that the team will finish outside the top twelve for the first time in six years.

 

Stuart Crawford, a 24-year-old from Edinburgh who is ranked 270 in the world,  played one of the best games of his life in fighting back from 2/1 down to beat Malaysia’s third string Timothy Arnold, ranked more than 130 places higher, 3-9 9-1 9-10 9-5 9-1.

 

Scotland, seeded in the 13/18 group, looked set for an upset as the hard-hitting world No9 John White took to the court against the Malaysian No1 Mohd Azlan Iskandar.  But, in his first match against the Scot, Iskandar trounced the player ranked six places higher 9-4 9-3 10-8.

 

In the decider, Malaysia’s former top string Ong Beng Hee, the Asian champion, easily beat 20-year-old Harry Leitch 9-5 9-0 9-0.

 

Elsewhere in Pool F, hosts Pakistan looked likely to join Malaysia in the play-offs for the top 12 positions when they beat Spain 3/0.

 

Favourites England maintained their clean sheet in Pool A with a 3/0 win over 12th seeds South Africa, while second seeds Egypt also claimed their second 3/0 win, beating Germany

 

The rampant defending champions Australia, the fourth seeds, crushed Finland 3/0, losing just 15 points in three matches! 

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Defeat for Scotland's John White by Malaysia's Mohd Azlan Iskandar.

Lincou leads France. Could
they threaten England again?

Hot from Hong Kong
New World Champion, Amr Shabana leads Egypt in World Teams Championship

THE POOLS

The pool line-ups
(with seeding in brackets) are:
Pool A:
[1] England, [12] South Africa, [13/18] Kuwait, [19/22] Austria
Pool B:
[2] Egypt, [11] New Zealand, [13/18] Germany, [19/22] Iran
Pool C:
[3] France, [10] India, [13/18] Ireland
Pool D:
[4] Australia, [9] Netherlands, [13/18] Finland, [19/22] USA
Pool E:
[5] Canada, [8] Wales, [13/18] Hong Kong
Pool F:
[6] Malaysia, [7] Pakistan, [13/18] Scotland, [19/22] Spain

 

Big Time Men's World  Team Championships
Islamabad, Pakistan
RESULTS

FINAL QUALIFYING ROUNDS
Pool A:
[12] SOUTH AFRICA bt [13/18] KUWAIT 2-1 (Rowan Smith lost to Nasser Al Ramezi 6-9, 2-9, 4-9; Rodney Durbach bt Abdullah Almezayen 9-6, 9-5, 9-4; Michael Tootill bt Bader Al Hussaini 6-9, 9-6, 6-9, 9-4, 9-3)

[1] ENGLAND bt [19/22] AUSTRIA 3-0 (Peter Nicol bt Stefan Brauneis 9-1, 9-1, 9-2; James Willstrop bt Aqeel Rehman 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; Lee Beachill bt Jakob Dirnberger 9-4, 9-2, 9-4)

    Final positions: 1 England, 2 South Africa, 3 Kuwait, 4 Austria

 

Pool B:

[2] EGYPT bt [11] NEW ZEALAND 3-0 (Wael El Hindi bt Martin Knight 9-2, 9-2, 9-1; Amr Shabana bt Kashif Shuja 9-4, 9-0, 9-0; Karim Darwish bt Callum O'Brien 9-1, 9-0, 9-0)

[13/18] GERMANY bt [19/22] IRAN 3-0 (Patrick Gaessler bt Mohamad Hassan Jafari 9-3, 9-3, 9-0; Stefan Leifels bt Majid Rohani 9-2, 9-4, 9-3; Simon Baker bt Poya Ahmad Abadi 9-2, 9-3, 9-5)

    Final positions: 1 Egypt, 2 Germany, 3 New Zealand, 4 Iran

 

Pool C:

[10] INDIA bt [13/18] IRELAND 2-1 (Siddharth Suchde bt Brian Byrne 9-5, 9-1, 9-2; Ritwik Bhattacharya lost to Liam Kenny 7-9, 3-9, 6-9; Saurav Ghosal bt Arthur Gaskin 6-9, 9-5, 9-0, 9-1)

    Final positions: 1 France, 2 India, 3 Ireland

 

Pool D:

[4] AUSTRALIA bt [9] NETHERLANDS 3-0 (Joseph Kneipp bt Marc Reus 9-0, 9-1, 9-2; Anthony Ricketts bt Laurens Jan Anjema 9-3, 9-3, 9-1; Stewart Boswell bt Tom Hoevenaars 9-0, 9-0, 9-0)

[13/18] FINLAND bt [19/22] USA 2-1 (Hameed Ahmed bt Beau River 0-9, 9-7, 9-5, 9-1; Olli Tuominen bt Preston Quick 9-7, 9-0, 9-1; Matias Tuomi lost to Julian Illingworth 10-8, 9-2, 5-9, 0-9, 2-9)

    Final positions: 1 Australia, 2 Netherlands, 3 Finland, 4 USA

 

Pool E:

[8] WALES bt [13/18] HONG KONG 3-0 (Gavin Jones bt Anson Kwong 9-2, 9-1, 9-2; Alex Gough bt Wai Hang Wong 1-9, 9-2, 9-3, 9-4; David Evans bt Dick Lau 9-3, 9-2, 9-1)

    Final positions: 1 Canada, 2 Wales, 3 Hong Kong

 

Pool F:

[7] PAKISTAN bt [6] MALAYSIA 3-0 (Safeer Ullah Khan bt Mohd Nafiizwan Adnan 9-3, 9-7, 9-0; Mansoor Zaman bt Ong Beng Hee 9-6, 0-9, 9-10, 9-8, 9-3; Farhan Mehboob bt Timothy Arnold 9-4, 9-3, 9-1)

[13/18] SCOTLAND bt [19/22] SPAIN 3-0 (Stuart Crawford bt Alejandro Garbi Caro 1-9, 9-2, 9-2, 9-2; John White bt Iago Cornes 9-2, 9-5, 9-3; Harry Leitch bt David Vidal Villamide 9-7, 9-4, 10-9)

    Final positions: 1 Pakistan, 2 Malaysia, 3 Scotland, 4 Spain

2ND QUALIFYING ROUNDS
Pool A:

[1] ENGLAND bt [12] SOUTH AFRICA 3-0 (Nick Matthew bt Clinton Leeuw 9-1, 9-2, 2-9, 9-3; Lee Beachill bt Rodney Durbach 9-2, 10-8, 9-0; Peter Nicol bt Rowan Smith 9-2, 9-0, 9-0)

[13/18] KUWAIT bt [19/22] AUSTRIA 3-0 (Abdullah Almezayen bt Aqeel Rehman 9-2, 9-0, 9-2; Bader Al Hussaini bt Jakob Dirnberger 9-7, 9-7, 9-2; Nasser Al Ramezi bt Andreas Freudensprung 9-6, 7-9, 9-7, 9-0)
 

Pool B:

[2] EGYPT bt [13/18] GERMANY 3-0 (Wael El Hindi bt Patrick Gaessler 9-3, 9-0, 9-0; Karim Darwish bt Simon Rosner 9-2, 9-2, 9-3; Mohammed Abbas bt Simon Baker 9-3, 9-0, 9-1)

[11] NEW ZEALAND bt [19/22] IRAN 3-0 (Kashif Shuja bt Majid Rohani 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Martin Knight bt Mohamad Hassan Jafari 9-4, 9-0, 9-0; Campbell Grayson bt Poya Ahmad Abadi 9-1, 9-0, 9-0)


Pool C
:

[3] FRANCE bt [10] INDIA 3-0 (Renan Lavigne bt Siddharth Suchde 9-5, 4-9, 9-4, 9-2; Thierry Lincou bt Ritwik Bhattacharya 9-1, 9-1, 9-0; Gregory Gaultier bt Saurav Ghosal 9-3, 9-1, 9-5)


Pool D
:

[4] AUSTRALIA bt [13/18] FINLAND 3-0 (Joseph Kneipp bt Hameed Ahmed 9-3, 9-6, 9-1; Anthony Ricketts bt Olli Tuominen 9-0, 9-4, 9-0; Stewart Boswell bt Erno Teitti 9-1, 9-0, 9-0)

[9] NETHERLANDS bt [19/22] USA 2-1 (Tom Hoevenaars lost to Christopher Gordon 9-1, 8-10, 4-9, 9-6, 0-9; Laurens Jan Anjema bt Preston Quick 9-5, 9-2, 9-2; Dylan Bennett bt Julian Illingworth 1-9, 9-4, 9-5, 3-9, 9-5)


Pool E
:

[5] CANADA bt [8] WALES 3-0 (Matthew Giuffre bt Ricky Davies 9-5, 9-7, 5-9, 9-3; Graham Ryding bt David Evans 9-5, 9-4, 9-4; Shahier Razik bt Gavin Jones 5-9, 4-9, 9-0, 9-3, 9-3)


Pool F
:

[6] MALAYSIA bt [13/18] SCOTLAND 2-1 (Timothy Arnold lost to Stuart Crawford 9-3, 1-9, 10-9, 5-9, 1-9; Mohd Azlan Iskandar bt John White 9-4, 9-3, 10-8; Ong Beng Hee bt Harry Leitch 9-5, 9-0, 9-0)

[7] PAKISTAN bt [19/22] SPAIN 3-0 (Farhan Mehboob bt Alejandro Garbi Caro 9-0, 9-4, 9-3; Shahid Zaman bt Borja Golan 9-5, 4-9, 9-2, 5-9, 9-7; Mansoor Zaman bt Iago Cornes 9-3, 9-1, 9-0)



1ST QUALIFYING ROUNDS
Pool A:
[1] ENGLAND bt [13/18] KUWAIT 3-0 (Nick Matthew bt Nasser Al Ramezi 9-3, 9-3, 9-3; James Willstrop bt Abdullah Almezayen 9-4, 9-2, 9-2; Lee Beachill bt Bader Al Hussaini 9-6, 9-3, 9-3)
[12] SOUTH AFRICA bt [19/22] AUSTRIA 3-0 (Rowan Smith bt Andreas Freudensprung 9-0, 9-1, 9-1; Rodney Durbach bt Aqeel Rehman 9-0, 9-1, 9-1; Michael Tootill bt Jakob Dirnberger 9-4, 9-3, 9-5)

Pool B:
[13/18] GERMANY bt [11] NEW ZEALAND 2-1 (Simon Baker bt Campbell Grayson 9-6, 10-8, 6-9, 9-5; Stefan Leifels bt Kashif Shuja 10-9, 9-10, 5-9, 10-8, 9-3; Simon Rosner lost to Callum O'Brien 9-6, 6-9, 9-7, 7-9, 7-9)
[2] EGYPT bt [19/22] IRAN 3-0 (Wael El Hindi bt Mohamad Hassan Jafari 9-0, 9-0, 9-1; Karim Darwish bt Majid Rohani 9-0, 9-0, 9-1; Mohammed Abbas bt Poya Ahmad Abadi 9-1, 9-0, 9-2)

Pool C:
[3] FRANCE bt [13/18] IRELAND 3-0 (Jean-Michel Arcucci bt Neal Murphy 9-4, 9-4, 9-1; Gregory Gaultier bt Liam Kenny 9-6, 9-1, 9-0; Renan Lavigne bt Arthur Gaskin 9-3, 9-4, 9-5)

Pool D:
[4] AUSTRALIA bt [19/22] USA 3-0 (Joseph Kneipp bt Beau River 9-0, 9-0, 9-3; Anthony Ricketts bt Preston Quick 9-6, 9-3, 9-7; Stewart Boswell bt Julian Illingworth 9-1, 9-1, 9-0)

[9] NETHERLANDS bt [13/18] FINLAND 2-1 (Marc Reus lost to Hameed Ahmed 9-10, 0-9, 6-9; Laurens Jan Anjema bt Olli Tuominen 9-7, 4-9, 9-1, 6-9, 9-3; Dylan Bennett bt Matias Tuomi 9-0, 9-3, 9-6)

Pool E:
[5] CANADA bt [13/18] HONG KONG 3-0 (Matthew Giuffre bt Roger Ngan 9-6, 9-5, 9-7; Graham Ryding bt Wai Hang Wong 9-5, 9-0, 9-5; Shahier Razik bt Dick Lau 9-2, 9-5, 9-2)

Pool F:
[6] MALAYSIA bt [19/22] SPAIN 2-1 (Timothy Arnold lost to David Vidal Villamide 6-9, 1-9, 9-3, 10-8, 2-9; Mohd Azlan Iskandar bt Borja Golan 3-9, 9-1, 9-6, 9-1; Ong Beng Hee bt Iago Cornes 9-0, 9-5, 9-0)
[7] PAKISTAN bt [13/18] SCOTLAND 2-1 (Farhan Mehboob bt Alan Clyne 9-6, 9-1, 9-2; Shahid Zaman lost to John White 6-9, 6-9, 8-10; Mansoor Zaman bt Stuart Crawford 9-2, 9-2, 9-1
)
 

Reports

Day 1:
Top Seeds Sail Through
Opening World Encounters

The top five seeds sailed through their opening encounters unscathed on the opening day of action in the Big Time Men's World Team Squash Championships in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Favourites England despatched 13/18 seeds Kuwait 3/0 in Pool A, with 22-year-old Qatar Classic champion James Willstrop, from Yorkshire, successfully making his debut as the squad No1 by beating Abdullah Almezayen 9-4 9-2 9-2. 

Defending champions Australia, the fourth seeds, also maintained a clean sheet in Pool D as they defeated USA 3/0.

There was a first day surprise in Pool B when Germany, seeded in the 13/18 group, beat 11th seeds New Zealand 2/1.  Australian-born Simon Baker put Germany ahead by beating Campbell Grayson 9-6 10-8 6-9 9-5.  Stefan Leifels then made sure of victory with a 10-9 9-10 5-9 10-8 9-3 victory over the New Zealand No1 Kashif Shuja.  Callum O'Brien gained a consolation point for the Kiwis when he beat Simon Rosner 6-9 9-6 7-9 9-7 9-7.