Elias & Gohar Extend World Junior Rankings' Reigns
Elias & Gohar Extend World Junior Rankings' Reigns
Diego EliasandNouran
Gohar- from Peru and
Egypt, respectively - extend their reigns at the top of the latestWSF
World Junior Rankings, published today by theWorld Squash
Federation.
Elias, 18, from Lima, made history in August last year by
winning theWSF Men's
World Junior Individual Championshipin
Namibia without dropping a game - thereby becoming Peru's first ever
world squash champion.
Last month, he went on to confirm his status as the
world's best junior by winning theBritish Junior U19 Opentitle
for the first time.
Pakistan'sTayyab
Aslamholds on to second
place in the men's list, with Hong Kong'sTsun Hei Yuen, the 2014Hong
Kong Junior OpenandDutch
Junior Openchampion, at
No3.
Gohar tops the women's list which features fellow
Egyptians in the next three places. The 17-year-old from Cairo was
runner-up in the 2014 World Junior Championship - but, in this year's
British Junior U19 Open, beat third-placedSalma
Hany Ibrahimin the semis
before overcoming the new list's No.4Mariam
Metwallyto win the title
for the first time.
Habiba Mohamed,
the WSF World Junior Individual champion, aged just 15, holds onto
second place in the new list.
The WSF World Junior Rankings - based on the under-19 age
grouping - are issued quarterly, based on results achieved in WSF World
Junior Circuit events, national senior opens, regional championships and
WSF World Junior Individual Championships.