Elias & Gohar Extend World Junior Rankings' Reigns by Howard Harding 3 February 2015
- Diego Elias and Nouran Gohar - from Peru and Egypt, respectively -
extend their reigns at the top of the latest WSF World Junior Rankings,
published today by the World Squash Federation.
Elias, 18, from Lima, made history in August last year by winning the
WSF Men's World Junior Individual Championship in Namibia without
dropping a game - thereby becoming Peru's first ever world squash
champion.
Last month, he went on to confirm his status as the world's best junior
by winning the British Junior U19 Open title for the first time.
Pakistan's Tayyab Aslam holds on to second place in the men's list,
with Hong Kong's Tsun Hei Yuen, the 2014 Hong Kong Junior Open and
Dutch Junior Open champion, at No3.
Gohar tops the women's list which features fellow Egyptians in the next
three places. The 17-year-old from Cairo was runner-up in the 2014
World Junior Championship - but, in this year's British Junior U19
Open, beat third-placed Salma Hany Ibrahim in the semis before
overcoming the new list's No.4 Mariam Metwally to win the title for the
first time.
Habiba Mohamed, the WSF World Junior Individual champion, aged just 15, holds onto second place in the new list.
The WSF World Junior Rankings - based on the under-19 age grouping -
are issued quarterly, based on results achieved in WSF World Junior
Circuit events, national senior opens, regional championships and WSF
World Junior Individual Championships.
Men's top 10:
1 (1) Diego Elias (Peru) 175.00
2 (2) Tayyab Aslam (Pakistan) 101.67
3 (3) Yuen Tsun Hei (Hong Kong) 92.67
4 (4) Kush Kumar (India) 81.33
5 (6) Auguste Dussourd (France) 76.00
6 (9) Omar El Atmas (Egypt) 72.67
7 (8) Jami Aijanen (Finland) 56.67
8 (10) Lau Tsz Kwan (Hong Kong) 51.00
9 (14) Michael Craig (Ireland) 50.00
10 (13) Mohammad Syafiq Kamal (Malaysia) 49.33
