Women's Squash World Team Championship 1987

The fifth women's World Team Championship ( English 1987 Women's World Team Squash Championships ) was held from 7 to 14 October 1987 Auckland , New Zealand instead. A total of 14 teams took part, Japan and Norway made their debut.

England successfully defended their title from the year before last with a 2-1 win over Australia . Third place went to hosts New Zealand with a 2-1 win against Ireland. Germany finished the tournament in 7th place.

mode

The participating teams were drawn into two groups according to their results from the previous event. Round-robin mode was used within the groups . The two best-placed teams advanced to the semifinals.

All teams consisted of a minimum of three and a maximum of four players who had to be reported in the order of their skill level. Three individual games were played per encounter. A team won if its players could win two of the individual games. The order in which the individual games were played was independent of the order in which the players entered.

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

rank	country	Sp.	S.	N	Sp.-diff.	Points
1	England	6th	6th	0	18: 0	12
2	Ireland	6th	5	1	15: 3	10
3	Canada	6th	4th	2	11: 7	8th
4th	Netherlands	6th	3	3	9: 9	6th
5	France	6th	2	4th	5:13	4th
6th	Wales	6th	1	5	5:13	2
7th	Norway	6th	0	6th	0:18	0

England - Ireland 3-0 England - Canada 3-0 England - Netherlands 3-0 England - France 3-0 England - Wales 3-0 England - Norway 3-0 Ireland - Canada 3-0

Ireland - Netherlands 3-0 Ireland - France 3-0 Ireland - Wales 3-0 Ireland - Norway 3-0 Canada - Netherlands 2: 1 Canada - France 3-0 Canada - Wales 3-0

Canada - Norway 3-0 Netherlands - France 3-0 Netherlands - Wales 2: 1 Netherlands - Norway 3-0 France - Wales 2: 1 France - Norway 3-0 Wales - Norway 3-0

Group B

rank	country	Sp.	S.	N	Sp.-diff.	Points
1	Australia	6th	6th	0	18: 0	12
2	New Zealand	6th	5	1	15: 3	10
3	Scotland	6th	4th	2	10: 8	8th
4th	Germany	6th	3	3	8:10	6th
5	United States	6th	2	4th	7:11	4th
6th	Sweden	6th	1	5	4:14	2
7th	Japan	6th	0	6th	1:17	0

Australia - New Zealand 3-0 Australia - Scotland 3-0 Australia - Germany 3-0 Australia - United States 3-0 Australia - Sweden 3-0 Australia - Japan 3-0 New Zealand - Scotland 3-0

New Zealand - Germany 3-0 New Zealand - United States 3-0 New Zealand - Sweden 3-0 New Zealand - Japan 3-0 Scotland - Germany 2: 1 Scotland - United States 2: 1 Scotland - Sweden 3-0

Scotland - Japan 3-0 Germany - United States 2: 1 Germany - Sweden 2: 1 Germany - Japan 3-0 United States - Sweden 2: 1 United States - Japan 3-0 Sweden - Japan 2: 1

Semifinals

England	-	New Zealand	3-0
Australia	-	Ireland	3-0

final

England	final	Australia
Team Lisa Opie Martine Le Moignan Lucy Soutter Alison Cumings	Date: October 14, 1987 Location: Auckland Lisa Opie 9: 3, 9: 3, 6: 9, 9: 5 Vicki Cardwell Martine Le Moignan 5: 9, 9: 5, 0: 9, 9: 6, 5: 9 Robyn Friday Lucy Soutter 9: 6, 9: 3, 9: 4 Sarah Fitz-Gerald Result: 2: 1	Team Vicki Cardwell Robyn Friday Michelle Martin Sarah Fitz-Gerald

Final placements

rank team 01.  England 02.  Australia 03.  New Zealand 04th  Ireland 05.  Canada 06th  Scotland 07th  BR Germany 08th.  Netherlands

rank team 09.  Wales 10.  Sweden 11.  France 12.  United States 13.  Japan 14th  Norway

Web links

• Women's World Team Championship 1987 . worldsquash.org. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
• Results on squashinfo.com (English)