20/10/2018
British Junior Championships 2018 News
Best of British set to descend on Nottingham
for the British Junior Championships 2018
The
finest juniors from across Britain will compete at the 2018 edition of
the Dunlop British Junior Championships with former champions Nick Wall
and Alice Green headlining the boys and girls Under 19 draws
respectively from 26-28 October in Nottingham after the draws were
revealed today.
The three-day event, now established as one of the biggest domestic
junior tournaments on the British circuit, will see players as young as
eight battling across ten categories at the University of Nottingham,
Nottingham Squash Rackets Club and Duffield Squash Club.
Two-time
champion Nick Wall (Yorks) tops a hotly contested Boys Under 19 draw and
is seeded to lock horns with England No.1 and second seed Jared Carter
(Hants) in the title decider in what could be a repeat of the Boys Under
17 final two years ago in which Wall prevailed. Looking to challenge the
top seeds is last year’s Boys Under 17 champion [3/4] Lewis Anderson (Warks),
the current Dutch Junior Open 2018 Under 19 champion.
Two-time champion [1] Alice Green (Essex) and [2] Georgia Adderley
(Scot) are seeded to meet in the Girls Under 19 final in what could be a
repeat of last year’s Girls Under 17 final which saw Adderley emerge
victorious. Hot on their heels will be 15-year-old Katie Malliff
(Bucks), seeded 3/4 who sensationally overpowered Green in the Girls
Under 17 final of the English Junior Championships (EJC) back in March.
Last year’s Boys Under 15 champion Sam Todd (Yorks) moves up to the
Under 17 category and tops the draw. Challenging the two-time British
Junior Open (BJO) champion and looking to clinch his first British
National title is second seed Ben Smith (Lincs) - the current England
number one and EJC Boys Under 17 champion. Meanwhile, [3] Max Forster (Northd),
the 2016 British National Boys Under 15 champion will be lying in wait
and looking to upset the proceedings.
In the Girls Under 17 category, [1] Maia Pannell (Hants) is in prime
position to take the title but will face stiff competition from [2]
Margot Prow (Middx) who has overcome Pannell in all previous
head-to-heads.
The Boys Under 15s looks set to be a fierce affair between the current
European number one [1] Denis Gilevskiy (Ire) - winner of the BJO Boys
Under 13 2017 title, and second seed Jonah Bryant (Sussex), the current
Boys Under 13 BJO champion.
In what promises to be a hotly contested draw, the Girls Under 15 sees
[1] Asia Harris (Yorks) seeded to lock horns with [2] Torrie Malik
(Sussex) - the current European number one. September’s South West Gold
event saw Harris sensationally edge Malik in the Girls Under 15 final
and exact her revenge after falling to her back in March at the English
Junior Championships final.
Hot favourite to claim the Boys Under 13s is last year’s runner-up [1]
Yusuf Sheikh (Essex), the current England number one. Sheikh is likely
to face a titanic challenge from 3/4 seed Abd-Allah Eissa (Warks) – the
European number one, current Dutch Junior Open and South West Gold Under
13 champion, as well as Hampshire’s [2] Alexander Broadbridge, a former
English Junior Under 11 champion.
Girls Under 13 top seed Amelie Haworth (Hants) will be looking to clinch
her first British maiden title after claiming the EJC Girls Under 13
title in March. However, South West Gold 2018 champion [2] Meha Shah (Warks)
– the current England No.1 will be looking to mount a challenge
alongside Welsh No.1 [3] Ellie Breach.
If all goes to seeding, the Boys Under 11 title decider could be a
repeat of last month’s South West Gold final with [1] Ronnie Hinkling
(Surrey) and [2] Dylan Kylar (Berks) set to do battle once again - where
Hinkling, the current England number one triumphed.
England number one Emily Coulcher-Porter (Oxon) tops the Girls Under 11s
draw and is seeded to meet second seed Mariam Eissa (Warks) in what
could be another thrilling showdown. Last month saw Coulcher-Porter edge
Eissa, the current English Junior Under 11 champion in five in
September’s South West Gold final.
Main draw action starts at 9am on Friday 26th October. Finals are
scheduled for Sunday 28th October on the all-glass show court at the
University of Nottingham. All spectators wishing to see the best of
British are welcome free of charge.
View the draws at:
www.englandsquash.com/bjc
For further information contact Donna Helmer:
donna.helmer@englandsquash.com
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