Photo: Muhammad Zakaria and Amina Arifi
Karachi: Egypt's top seed Mohamed Zakaria became the new world junior squash champion.
Egypt's defending champion, 17-year-old Amina Arifi, won the world junior women's title for the third time in a row. Egypt won two gold, one silver and one bronze medal.
According to reports received from Houston, USA, in the final of the Boys Under-19 event in the World Junior Championship, top seed Muhammad Zakaria defeated Korea's Jo Young-na, who upset twice in a row, 0-3 in 37 minutes. .
Last year, Zakaria lost to Muhammad Hamza Khan of Pakistan in the final of the Aali Junior Championship held in Melbourne, Australia.
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 countryman, seed 2 Feroze Abul Khair 0-3 after an interesting match.
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, where the men's and women's events are being held together for the first time, is the defending champion with England in the 25-team men's event and Egypt in the 17-team women's event.
On the opening day, the Pakistan team will face the strong German team. In the men's event, there are 8 pools, while the top two teams from each pool will make it to the knockout round. On the opening day, the Pakistan team will face the strong German team in Pool C. Later, they will face another strong New Zealand team.
