Egypt Stops Australia to win Gold
England takes third, Malaysia fifth, Hong Kong seventh
By Yasser El Halaby © 2003; all rights of reproduction reserved.
August 28, 2003 

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EGYPT GAINS HISTORIC VICTORY

Egypt declared themselves world champions today in historic fashion when they beat the Aussies in style to claim the title. Playing on their home court, and in front of their home crowd, the Egyptian team proved to the world their unchallenged strength in the finals against Australia.

Egyptian coach Taher chose not to play with world juniors runner up, El Trabolsy, but instead have Badr play two, and Egypt’s number four, El Waleily, play at the number three spot.

The opening game between Badr and Australia’s Urquhart was the closest of the match. Urquhart was put on great pressure by the Egyptian’s attacking, basic game. Badr made very few errors and constantly moved Urquhart to control the “T” and match, and won in three. The Australian had put on a huge fight but Badr was just the better player today.
Next came world junior champion, Abdel Kawy, against Australia’s number one Brown. Brown had played a five game thriller the previous day with England’s Pierrepont and some may have thought that the Aussie could offer the world champion some challenge.

Those who thought so were very wrong.

Playing dazzling squash, Abdel Kawy refused to drop one single point in the entire match, illustrating the huge gap between her and the other players in the tournament. Everything the Egyptian did was just perfect. There were no mistakes from the Egyptian’s side and Brown found herself helpless to a determined Abdel Kawy. With Abdel Kawy’s 27-0 win Egypt won the title. “Winning the team title completes my dream. This is just great for Egyptian squash and for Egypt,” said the eighteen year old world champ.
In the dead rubber El Waleily only dropped three points. Egypt had won the match and team title in spectacular fashion in front of the cheering crowd.

In the third/ fourth place playoff, England managed to clinch the win from India 2-1. England was down 1-0 after the first rubber when England’s McPhee couldn’t keep retrieving the shots Reddy had to offer. Reddy has an amazing touch and plays the game with ease. Pierrepont found herself in the same position she was in the previous day against Australia. The pressure was on as Pierrepont had no choice but to win against India’s Chinappa to keep England’s hopes alive. Pierrepont looked really focus and Chinappa didn’t seem to have gotten into the match before the third game, after being down 2-0. Pierrepont closed down her match in three to tie the match and take it to the decisive third rubber. England’s fifteen year old, Wilmott, won her match quickly at the number three spot, dropping only four points, earning England the number three place.

In the fifth to eight consolation plate Malaysia beat Canada for fifth. The US weren’t able to pull it off this time against Hong Kong and lost 2-1 to finish at eighth place.

2003 World Junior Womens Team Finals, Cairo Stadium, Cairo Egypt:
3. Sara Badr (EGY) beat 2. Donna Urquart (AUS) 3-0 (9/6, 9/4, 9/4) (39m)
1. Omneya Abdel Kawy (EGY) beat 1. Kasey Brown (AUS) 3-0 (9/0, 9/0, 9/0) (24m)
4. Raneem El Weileily (EGY) beat Georgina Davis (AUS) 2-0 (9/0, 9/2) (11m)

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