2014 Women's Squash World Team Championship
The 19th World Team Chess Championship women ( English 2014 Women's World Team Squash Championship ) was held from 1 to 6 December 2014 in Niagara-on-the-Lake , Canada , instead. The tournament was organized by the Canadian Squash Federation and the World Squash Federation . A total of 20 teams competed.
Defending champion was Egypt , which finished third this year. The English team won their first title since 2006 and their seventh title overall. In the final she defeated Malaysia, which had reached a final for the first time. Sarah-Jane Perry gave England the lead against Delia Arnold before Nicol David equalized against Laura Massaro . The decision brought Alison Waters with a 3-1 win over Low Wee Wern . The German team took 15th place in the line-up of Sina Wall , Franziska Hennes , Annika Wiese and Nicole Fries . Austria achieved 19th place with Birgit Coufal , Jacqueline Peychär , Anja and Lisa Kaserer .
Participating teams
A total of 20 teams from the five continental federations competed: Europe , Asia , America , Africa and Oceania .
| Europe | Asia | America | Africa | Oceania |
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 Germany
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 People's Republic of China
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 Guatemala
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 Egypt
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 Australia
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 England
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 Hong Kong
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 Canada
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 South Africa
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 New Zealand
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 France
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 India
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 Colombia
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 Ireland
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 Malaysia
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 Mexico
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 Austria
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 United States
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 Spain
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 Wales
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mode
The participating teams were drawn according to their placement in four groups of five teams. Within the groups, the game is played in round robin mode ; the two best-placed teams reached the final round, which is played in the knockout system . In the tournament all places will be played out.
All teams consist of a minimum of three and a maximum of four players who had to be entered in the order of their skill level. Three individual games are played per match. A team has won if its players win two of the individual games. The order of play of the individual games is independent of the order in which the players register.
Results
Group stage
Group A
| rank | country | Sp. | S. | N | Sp.-diff. | Points |
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| 1 |
Egypt ( El Weleily , El Sherbini , El Tayeb , Kawy ) |
4th | 4th | 0 | 12: 0 | 8th |
| 2 |
Ireland ( Perry , Blake , Mylotte , Flynn ) |
4th | 3 | 1 | 7: 5 | 6th |
| 3 |
New Zealand ( Landers-Murphy , Craig , Lindsay , Barnett ) |
4th | 2 | 2 | 7: 5 | 4th |
| 4th |
Colombia ( Peláez , Tovar , Porras , González ) |
4th | 1 | 3 | 4: 8 | 2 |
| 5 |
People's Republic of China ( Li , Gu , Xiu , Duan ) |
4th | 0 | 4th | 0:12 | 0 |
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Group B
| rank | country | Sp. | S. | N | Sp.-diff. | Points |
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| 1 |
England ( Massaro , Waters , Perry , Beddoes ) |
4th | 4th | 0 | 11: 1 | 8th |
| 2 |
Australia ( Grinham , Camilleri , Cardwell , Nunn ) |
4th | 3 | 1 | 9: 3 | 6th |
| 3 |
Wales ( Evans , Saffery , Haley , Harlow ) |
4th | 2 | 2 | 6: 6 | 4th |
| 4th |
Germany ( Wall , Hennes , meadow , frieze ) |
4th | 1 | 3 | 4: 8 | 2 |
| 5 |
Spain ( Aranda , Gómez , Juan Gallach , Moros ) |
4th | 0 | 4th | 0:12 | 0 |
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Group C
| rank | country | Sp. | S. | N | Sp.-diff. | Points |
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| 1 |
Malaysia ( David , Wee Wern , Arnold , Azan ) |
4th | 4th | 0 | 12: 0 | 8th |
| 2 |
United States ( A. Sobhy , S. Sobhy , Blatchford , Grainger ) |
4th | 3 | 1 | 9: 3 | 6th |
| 3 |
Canada ( Cornett , Todd , Letourneau , Naughton ) |
4th | 2 | 2 | 6: 6 | 4th |
| 4th |
Mexico ( Terán , García , Hernández , Urrutia ) |
4th | 1 | 3 | 3: 9 | 2 |
| 5 |
Guatemala ( Bonilla , P. Anckermann , N. Anckermann , Barillas ) |
4th | 0 | 4th | 0:12 | 0 |
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Group D
| rank | country | Sp. | S. | N | Sp.-diff. | Points |
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| 1 |
Hong Kong ( Au , Chan , Liu , Tong ) |
4th | 4th | 0 | 11: 1 | 8th |
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France ( Serme , Aumard , Pomportes , Peltier ) |
4th | 3 | 1 | 10: 2 | 6th |
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South Africa ( Waters , Louw , Tucker , Fuller ) |
4th | 2 | 2 | 5: 7 | 4th |
| 4th |
India ( Chinappa , Alankamony , Ingale , Jawanda ) |
4th | 1 | 3 | 4: 8 | 2 |
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Austria ( Coufal , Peychär , A. Kaserer , L. Kaserer ) |
4th | 0 | 4th | 0:12 | 0 |
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Final round
| Quarter finals | Semifinals | final | ||||||||||||||||
| A1 | Egypt
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3 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| B2 | Australia
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0 | 1 | 0 | A1 | Egypt
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1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| D2 | France
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0 | 0 | C1 | Malaysia
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3 | 3 | |||||||||||
| C1 | Malaysia
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3 | 3 | C1 | Malaysia
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0 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| D1 | Hong Kong
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3 | 3 | 0 | B1 | England
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3 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| C2 | United States
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0 | 0 | 2 | D1 | Hong Kong
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| A2 | Ireland
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1 | 0 | 0 | B1 | England
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3 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| B1 | England
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3 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
final
| Malaysia | final | England | |||||||||
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Date: December 6, 2014
Result: 1: 2 |
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Final placements
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Web links
- Results on squashinfo.com (English)