Clean Sweep For Egypt In All Africa Junior Championships
Clean Sweep For Egypt In All Africa Junior Championships
Egypt
successfully retained all three titles in the 2013 All Africa Junior
Squash Championships at the Wanderers Club in the Namibia
capital Windhoek.
Favourites in the mixed team championship, Egypt brushed aside South
Africa 3/0 in the final - Omar Elatmas and Nouran Ahmed
Gohar winning their matches in straight games and Ahmed Effat
Ashoush fighting back from 2/1 down in the dead rubber to quash
determined opposition from Lawrence Kuhn to clinch an 11-6, 7-11,
7-11, 12-10, 14-12 victory.
In
the individual championships which followed, 16-year-old top seed
Elatmas cruised to victory in the men's event, beating South African
Luke Willemse 11-4, 11-3, 11-9 in the final. Sixth seed Willemse
made his breakthrough in the quarter-finals where he upset second-seeded
compatriot Ruan Olivier.
The
women's final was an all-Egyptian affair between the top two seeds, in
which favourite Nouran Ahmed Gohar, a 15-year-old former
British Junior U15 Open champion, beat Nadine Ayman Mohamed
Shahin, also 15, 11-8, 11-3, 11-1.
RESULTS: All Africa Junior Squash Championships, Windhoek,
Namibia