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23-Dec-07:
British Junior Open promises
to be most competitive yet ...
The New Year gets off to a
flying start when 450 of the world's finest players from 34
countries converge on Sheffield, from 02-06 January, for the
prestigious Tecnifibre British
Junior Open.
England Squash
looks forward
to the development of a successful and fruitful partnership with
Tecnifibre, the brand which has signed up to be title sponsors of
the event for the next three years.
Over recent years Egypt have been supremely dominant and have claimed six of the
eight titles in each of the last two seasons. No1 seed for the
Boys' Under 19 Drysdale Cup
is the reigning Under 17 champion
Mohamed El Shorbagy, who
has been making impressive inroads on the PSA Tour over recent
months. His main challengers will include South Africa’s
Rudi Willemse,
Nicolas Mueller from
Germany, and the English duo of
Adrian
Waller
and former Under 17
finalist Joe Lee.
France’s Camille Serme
is hot favourite to take the Girls' Under 19 crown. The
18-year-old two-time European Junior Champion and World Junior
Championship runner-up
will be looking to go one better than last year and cement her place
as the world’s top junior. No2 seed is Hong Kong’s
Annie Au, while three
times British National Champion
Victoria Lust and Low
Wee Wern from Malaysia complete the top four seedings.
American Olivia Blatchford,
now resident in the UK, returns with her sights firmly set on
retaining the Under 15 title she won last January.
Other English chances are spearheaded by National Champions
Kimberley Hay in
the Under 17s, and Peter Joyce
in the Under 13s - while
David Wardle is
highly-rated and starts as the Under 15 number 2 seed.
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Shorbagy wins U17
Camille to add U19 ?
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Tecnifibre To Sponsor England Squash
British Junior Open
England Squash has concluded a three-year title sponsorship
agreement with Tecnifibre and are delighted to announce Tecnifibre as the
headline sponsor of the British Junior Open Squash Championships.
The event - the most prestigious and longest-established junior
event on the world calendar, attracting in excess of 450 of the very
best players from all corners of the world - will now be known as
the Tecnifibre British Junior Open. The 2008 event, being staged as
usual in the renowned Abbeydale and Hallamshire clubs in Sheffield,
takes place between 2–6 January.
The three year deal is the biggest ever sponsorship agreement in the
British Junior Open’s history.
The event will now be known as the Tecnifibre British Junior Open.
The British Junior Open is the most prestigious and
longest-established junior event on the world calendar and attracts
in excess of 450 of the very best players from all corners of the
world.
England Squash Chief Executive Nick Rider said: “I’m
delighted we’re teaming up with Tecnifibre. The brand’s reputation
for excellence and quality will add real prestige to these great
Championships.”
Guillaume Ducruet, from Tecnifibre International, commented:
“At senior professional level, we already sponsor the US Open and
the World Open, but it is just as important for us to be involved in
junior squash. We are the brand of the future, so we must be
associated with the players of the future.”
Mark Ibbotson, from Smash Sports, the UK and Ireland trade
distributor of Tecnifibre, added: “Following on from Tecnifibre’s
sponsorship of the British Junior National Championships and a
number of European junior tournaments, this is the next logical step
for our young, vibrant brand, in its support of junior squash.”
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