Mohammad Zakaria and Amina Arifi become new World Junior Squash Champions – Sports

Egypt’s top seeds Mohamed Zakaria and Amina Arefi became the new world junior squash champions.

of the report in accordance In the finals of the Boys Under-19 event at the World Junior Championship in Houston, USA, top seed Muhammad Zakaria defeated Korea’s Jo Young-na 0-3 in a 37-minute match following two consecutive upsets.

Zakaria lost to Muhammad Hamza Khan of Pakistan in the final of the World Junior Championship held in Melbourne, Australia last year.

On the other hand, in the women’s under-19 final, defending champion and top seed Amina Arifi became the women’s junior champion for the third time in a row by defeating her compatriot, seed 2 Feroze Abul Khair 0-3 following an interesting contest.

In this way, the Egyptian players won both the events and bagged the gold medals, Jo Young Na got the silver and India’s Shaurya Bawa got the bronze medal with the third position. In the women’s event, Egypt’s Feroze Silver and Nadine Al-Hamame were awarded bronze medals.

Meanwhile, the World Junior Team Championship is co-opening for the first time with men’s and women’s events, with England in the 25-team men’s event and Egypt as the defending champions in the 17-team women’s event.

In the men’s event, there are 8 pools while the top two teams from each pool will qualify for the knockout round. In Pool C on the opening day, the Pakistan team will face a strong team from Germany, later they will face another strong team, New Zealand. .