There are just three months to go until this year’s WSF World Junior Squash Championships, which are taking place in Houston Squash Club, USA, between 12-23 July. This year’s championships, which will comprise of an individual and team competition, will feature concurrent men’s and women’s team events for the first time in event history. At last year’s championships, which took place in Melbourne, Australia, Egypt’s Amina Orfi won her second individual title and led Egypt to victory in the team event, while Hamza Khan ended Pakistan’s 37-year wait for a title in the men’s individual event. Th ..read more

The World Squash Federation (WSF) has been granted Associate Membership to the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF), following a vote at yesterday’s ASOIF annual general meeting, which took place during the SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit 2024. Also admitted as Associate Members were the International Cricket Council, the International Federation of American Football and World Lacrosse. ASOIF is a non-profit association of international sports federations that compete in the Summer Olympic Games. Its mission is to unite, promot ..read more

A record 46 teams will compete at this year’s WSF World Junior Team Championships, which will take place as part of the WSF World Junior Individual and Team Championships at Houston Squash Club, USA, 12-23 July. During the World Junior Team Championships, national federation squads of four players aged under 19 compete against each other in individual matches, with the first team to win two matches winning the tie. This year’s championships will feature a men’s and women’s event being held simultaneously for the first time in tournament history. In the men’s event, 27 teams are set to compet ..read more

France etched a new name on the ESF European Under-19 Mixed Team Squash Championship trophy as they ended England’s 12-year domination with a dramatic victory in Sunday’s final in Bucharest, Romania. France have finished runners-up 10 times in Europe’s premier junior team squash competition since its first staging in 1983, but yesterday at Aerosquash Baneasa lifted the title for the first time. After one victory each for England’s European U19 Individual champion Jonah Bryant and France’s brilliant 16-year-old Lauren Baltayan, the result came down to the third tie between England’s Abdalla ..read more

Thirty girls from the state of Peshawar, Pakistan, have been provided with a free three-day coaching clinic led by WSF accredited coaches thanks to the Noorena Shams Foundation. The clinic, which began on International Women’s Day and was organised by the Foundation’s founder, Pakistan’s former World No.120 Noorena Shams, and funded by VOA News, saw some of the biggest names in Pakistan squash attend to support the event. These included the legendary Qamar Zaman and Asian Games gold medalist Amir Atlas Khan, while the coaching sessions were delivered by Adil Atlas Khan and Owais Khan, who are ..read more

English duo Jonah Bryant and Amelie Haworth have been crowned ESF European U19 Individual Champions after both players came from behind to record 3-2 wins against Melvil Scianimanico and Lauren Baltayan, respectively, in Bucharest. In the women’s final, 18-year-old No.2 seed Haworth fought back incredibly to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. In a nerve-shredding battle, the Englishwoman somehow saved six championship balls against 16-year-old French top seed Lauren Baltayan, with Haworth coming back from 6-10 at 1-2 down to eventually record an 8-11, 8-11, 11-3, 17-15, 11-7 win. After t ..read more

World Squash Federation President Zena Wooldridge OBE has praised the legacy programmes from the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games on the local area following news that five new outdoor squash courts are to be built around Birmingham thanks to a Sport England funding boost for England Squash. Wooldridge, a life-long member of her local squash club in nearby Stourbridge was previously the Director of Sport at the University of Birmingham and a member of Birmingham’s 2022 Commonwealth Games Bid Committee. She said: “It’s fantastic to see the impact the Commonwealth Games continues to have on B ..read more

The countdown to Chengdu 2025 has begun, with just 500 days remaining until the next edition of The World Games, which is taking place in Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, from 7-17 August 2025. The World Games is an international multi-sport competition traditionally comprising sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games. Squash, which will make its Olympic debut at the LA28 Olympic Games, is a mainstay of The World Games and has been a part of every edition since Lahti 1997, with the exception of Akita in 2001. In 2021, Malaysian squash legend Nicol David was named as ..read more

The ESF European U19 Championships are underway, with the individual event starting today in Bucharest, Romania. In the women’s event, the top four seeds are France’s Lauren Baltayan, England’s Amelie Haworth, Poland’s Sofiia Zrazhevska and Germany’s Maya Weishar. In the men’s event, the top seeds are England’s Jonah Bryant, Switzerland’s David Bernet, France’s Melvil Scianimanico and England’s Yusuf Sheikh. You can watch the action from the all-glass show court for free on WORLDSQUASH.TV, or follow the tournament on the official tournament website. Click here to view the results and schedule ..read more

Last year, the number of World Squash Coaching courses delivered increased by 62.5 percent on 2022’s figures. World Squash Coaching is the WSF coach education programme and is run in partnership with regional and national federations to provide a unified and standardised coaching structure. There are three levels within World Squash Coaching, as well as an online Foundation Course. Last year, 52 World Squash Coaching courses were held around the world, with a total of 548 participants taking part. This represents a 62.5 percent increase on 2022, when 32 courses were delivered to 455 participa ..read more