RESULTS:

Tournament:

World University Team Squash Championship

Szeged, Hungary

Results:

Final:

[1] GREAT BRITAIN bt [2] FRANCE 2-1

Lauren Siddall bt Maud Duplomb 9-1, 10-8, 9-1

Chris Ryder bt Fabien Verseille 9-2, 9-1, 9-0 (30m)

Jonathan Harford lost to Yann Perrin 6-9, 9-1, 5-9

 3rd place play-off:

[5/8] SOUTH AFRICA bt [5/8] USA 2-1

Siyole Lusaseni bt Lily Lorentzen 2-9, 9-5, 9-5, 9-4

Devon Hendrikse lost to Julian Illingworth 6-9, 4-9, 6-9

Nico Mulder bt Francis Gilpin Lane 2-9, 4-9, 9-7, 9-7, 10-8

5th place play-off:

[3/4] MALAYSIA bt [5/8] AUSTRIA 3-0

Lim Yoke Wah bt Judith Gradnitzer 9-1, 9-0, 9-0

Nafzahizam Adnan bt Aqeel Rehman 9-2, 9-3, 9-4

Shahril Shahidan bt Jakob Dirnberger 9-4, 5-9, 9-6

7th place play-off:

[9/12] SWITZERLAND bt [3/4] CANADA 2-1

Olivia Hauser bt Ashley Clackson 9-6, 1-9, 9-4, 1-9, 9-7

Kevin Villiger bt Colin West 9-4, 7-9, 9-2, 9-1

Mark Brunner lost to Iain Crozier 0-9, 9-10

9th place play-off:

[9/12] CZECH REPUBLIC bt [5/8] HUNGARY 2-1

Zuzana Vackova bt Helga Kecse-Nagy 9-4, 9-0, 9-0

Pavel Sladecek lost to Mark Krajcsak 0-9, 2-9, 1-9

Jaroslav Cech bt Marton Szaboky 9-7, 9-1, 10-8

11th place play-off:

[9/12] SLOVAKIA bt [9/12] GERMANY 2-1

Linda Hruzikova bt Kathrin Rohrmueller 10-8, 2-9, 9-7, 9-6

Atilla Dobai lost to Anders Kroscky 9-10, 8-10, 10-8, 9-7, 0-9

Marek Manik bt Nikolai von Engelmann 9-4, 9-5, 9-3

Great Britain Triumph In
World University Championships

Great Britain struck gold in the World University Team Squash Championship after beating France 2/1 in the final in Szeged, Hungary.

 Lauren Siddall (Leeds University) gave the team a solid start with a 9-1, 10-8, 9-1 win over France's Maud Duplomb. Chris Ryder (Loughborough) made certain of victory for the favourites when he despatched Fabian Verseille 9-2, 9-1, 9-0 in 30 minutes – admitting later that he had never played as well on a glass court.

 Second seeds France gained a consolation point when Yann Perrin beat Jonathan Harford (Birmingham) 9-6, 1-9, 9-5 in the best-of-three dead rubber which followed.

 In the battle for third place between two teams seeded in the 5/8 group, South Africa beat USA 2/1, while 3/4 seeds Malaysia won the fifth-place play-off after a 3/0 victory over Austria.