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England & Scotland In Narrow World Championship Wins
by Howard Harding, Oct 23, 2001 © 2001 Squashtalk
[last update wa s 23-oct-01 ]

2001 SquashTalk coverage will feature regular updates from squash journalist Elspeth Burnside.

Team Pool Draw

ENGLAND & SCOTLAND IN NARROW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WINS

Third seeds England and fifth seeds Scotland both scrambled to 2-1 wins in today's (Tuesday) second qualifying round of the Men's World Team Squash Championship in Melbourne, Australia, with third strings Lee Beachill and Neil Frankland, respectively, clinching the decisive rubbers.

Chris Walker, the former world No4 who reached this year's British Open final on the eve of his 34th birthday, is enjoying his sixth successive world championship appearance for England - in two of which (1995 and 1997) he captained the squad to title success. Opening for the team in Melbourne against six-times champions Pakistan, the 10th seeds, Walker went down 9-6 9-3 9-4 to in-form former national junior champion Shahid Zaman. Squad No1 Mark Chaloner then fought back from a game down to beat Shahid's cousin Mansoor Zaman 7-9 9-5 9-1 9-7 to level the tie. Squad No4 Lee Beachill, the British national champion, wrapped up the victory for England with a 9-6 9-3 4-9 9-6 win over Pakistan's Ajaz Azmat.

World No7 John White lost his second successive match for Scotland in the tie against 8th seeds Malaysia after team-mate Martin Heath put the 5th seeds ahead with a 1-9 9-5 9-0 9-7 victory over Kenneth Low. Malaysian No1 Ong Beng Hee was in fine form as he punished White 9-0 9-10 9-3 10-8 to set the scene for Scotland's second successive upset in the championship. This time, however, Neil Frankland was ready for the challenge - and the Scottish No3 defeated Malaysia's Moh'd Azlan Iskandar 9-6 8-10 9-5 9-8 to claim Scotland's first pool win.

2nd qualifying round results:

Pool A:
[1] Australia bt [12] Ireland 3-0 (David Palmer bt Derek Ryan 9-7 9-1 9-1; Stewart Boswell bt Liam Kenny 9-1 9-3 9-6; John Williams bt Patrick Foster 9-5 9-6 9-3)
Hong Kong bt Norway 3-0 (Faheem Khan bt Richard Larsson 9-2 9-3 9-7; Vincent Cheung bt Raymond Pettersen 9-5 9-1 9-2; Roger Ngan bt Jaokim Salem 9-2 9-4 9-5)

Pool B:
[2] Wales bt Germany 2-1 (David Evans bt Simon Frenz 9-1 9-1 9-7; Alex Gough bt Stefan Leifels 10-9 9-0 9-3; Gavin Jones lost to Florian Poessl 9-6 1-9 9-10 6-9)
[11] South Africa bt Mexico 3-0 (Rodney Durbach bt Moises Galvez 3-9 9-4 4-9 9-5 9-7; Michael Toothill bt Mariano Aguilar 9-6 9-3 9-0; Adrian Hansen bt Armando Zarazua 9-2 9-1 9-2)

Pool C:
[3] England bt [10] Pakistan 2-1 (Mark Chaloner bt Mansoor Zaman 7-9 9-5 9-1 9-7; Chris Walker lost to Shahid Zaman 6-9 3-9 4-9; Lee Beachill bt Ajaz Azmat 9-6 9-3 4-9 9-6)
Sweden bt Kenya 3-0 (Daniel Forslund bt Otto Kwach 9-1 9-1 9-0; Christian Drakenberg bt Hartaj Bains 9-2 9-0 9-4; Johan Jungling bt Rajdeep Bains 9-4 9-2 9-0)

Pool D:
[4] Canada bt Denmark 3-0 (Jonathon Power bt Mikkel Korsbjerg 9-7 9-0 9-4; Shahier Razik bt Michael Hansen 9-4 9-4 9-4; Kelly Patrick bt Mads Korsbjerg 6-9 9-1 9-0 9-1)
[9] Finland bt Japan 3-0 (Olli Tuominen bt Kimihiko Sano 9-0 9-0 9-0: Juha Raumolin bt Takehide Hota 9-1 9-2 9-6; Janne Kyttanen bt Ron Tanno 9-1 9-3 9-3)

Pool E:
[5] Scotland bt [8] Malaysia 2-1 (John White lost to Ong Beng Hee 0-9 10-9 3-9 8-10; Martin Heath bt Kenneth Low 1-9 9-5 9-0 9-7; Neil Frankland bt Moh'd Azlan Iskandar 9-6 8-10 9-5 9-8)
Netherlands bt Austria 3-0 (Tommy Berden bt Gerhard Schedlbauer 9-3 9-3 9-0; Gabor Marges bt Markus Rossler 9-2 9-6 9-2; Lucas Buit bt Andreas Fuchs 10-8 9-7 9-3)

Pool F:
[6] Egypt bt New Zealand 3-0 (Omar Elborolossy bt Paul Steel 9-0 9-2 9-0; Amr Shabana bt Daniel Sharplin 5-9 9-0 9-7 9-3; Mohammed Abbas bt George Crosby 9-5 9-2 9-6)
[7] France bt USA 3-0 (Renan Lavigne bt Damian Walker 9-5 9-2 9-4; Jean-Michel Arcucci bt Richard Chin 9-2 9-1 9-0; Gregory Gaultier bt Preston Quick 7-9 9-5 10-9 9-3)