Players confirmed for the 2026 World Squash Junior Championships

The players have been confirmed for the 2026 World Squash Junior Championships, which will be contested at the White Oaks Resort and Spa in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, from 20 to 31 July 2026.

Ahead of this year’s tournament, a total of 185 players aged 18 and under are set to compete in both the men’s and women’s draws.

And as the athletes are set to travel to Canada ahead of this year’s championships, there is a strong lineup of names all ready and waiting to battle it out for the prestigious World Junior titles.

Among the star names confirmed for this year’s World Juniors is World No.7 and two-time World Junior Champion Mohamad Zakaria, who will be looking to make history and become the first ever player to claim a historic third Men’s title.

India’s No.1 Anahat Singh will also be looking to claim her first World Junior Women’s Championship, with the World No.20 hoping to go one step further after being eliminated in the 2025 semi-finals.

Joining the two high-ranked stars will be France’s European U19 Champion Amir Khaled-Jousselin, Hong Kong, China’s Asian U19 Champion Helen Tang, Pan Am Junior Champion Fiorella Gatti and Australia’s Oceania U19 Champion Sarbani Maitra.

The lineup of players will also see Egypt’s Adam Hawal and Ruqayya Salem contest for the World Junior titles. The duo have recorded impressive performances on the professional tour this season, including at the British Open earlier this month, and will be looking to maintain this momentum.

In addition, Canada, who are hosting a World Juniors event for the first time since 1984, has named all eight players, as they hope to make history and go one step further than 1992 runner-up Jonathon Power. In the men’s draw are Colten McLaughlin, Calder Murray, Yusuf Matti Alvarez, and Anderson Brown, while in the women’s selection are Wing Kai Gladys Ho, Joelle Kim, Sasha Lee, and Veera Dhaliwal.

And with players and federations chasing history at this year’s event, the World Squash Junior Championships will also see two nations represented for the first time, with St Vincent & the Grenadines’ Jayden George and Indonesia’s Muhammad Razka Idhmi Sulaeman making their debuts.

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Confirmed players for the 2026 World Squash Junior Championships: 

Australia:

Kasper Cheung (M)
Stanley Chung (M)
Ethan Middleton (M)
Henry Kross (M)

Joanne Joseph (F)
Sarbani Maitra (F)
Tina Ma (F)
Lilly Wilson (F)

Austria:

Kristina Begeba (F)

Barbados: 

Daniel Sealy (M)

Belgium: 

Maddox Moxham (M)
Corentin Boniver (M)

Savannah Moxham (F)
Alice Allard (F)

Brazil: 

Viggo Hendricks (M)
Owen Hendricks (M)
Matheus Frabetti (M)
Bernardo Jorge Guimarães (M)

Laura Souza Bezerra da Silva (F)
Giulia Colleoni (F)
Alix Borges (F)
Sara Guerra Barboza (F)

Canada: 

Colten McLaughlin (M)
Calder Murray (M)
Yusuf Matti Alvarez (M)
Anderson Brown (M)

Wing Kai Gladys Ho (F)
Joelle Kim (F)
Sasha Lee (F)
Veera Dhaliwal (F)

Colombia: 

Maria Gomez (F)
Maria Camila Sabogal (F)

Chinese Taipei: 

Pan Hong-Rui (M)
Shao Hung Peng (M)
Youan Lee (M)
Shao-Chien Peng (M)

Cordelia Wan-Ya Hsu (F)
Yeuk Hei Hebe Chan (F)
Yu-Chia Wu (F)
Wei-Yu Pan (F)

Egypt: 

Mohamad Zakaria (M)
Marwan Assal (M)
Seifeldin Refaay (M)
Adam Hawal (M)

Malika Elkaraksy (F)
Ruqayya Salem (F)
Barb Sameh (F)
Habiba Rizk (F)

England:

Dylan Roberts (M)
Ronnie Hickling (M)
Ismail Khalil (M)
Gabriel Chak (M)

Eve Parkins (F)
Emily Coulcher-Porter (F)
Reka Kemecsei (F)
Harriet Broadbridge (F)

France:

Amir Khaled-Jousselin (M)
Théo Baudry (M)
Kousha Moslehi (M)
Leo Gailland (M)

Leelou Laporte (F)

Germany:

Levi Visser (M)
Oleksii Bielikov (M)
Owen Hecker (M)
Alessio Fumagalli (M)

Hong Kong, China:

Long Hin Larry Wong (M)
Ting To Brogan Cheng (M)
Pak To Lau (M)
Chun Hin Ho (M)

Tsz Ching Cheung (F)
Helen Tang (F)
Ena Kwong (F)
Pui Yin Chloe Lo (F)

India:

Aryaveer Dewan (M)
Yusha Nafees (M)
Gurveer Singh (M)
Purav Rambhia (M)

Anahat Singh (F)
Rudra Singh (F)
Anika Dubey (F)
Saanvi Kalanki (F)

Indonesia: 

Muhammad Razka Idhmi Sulaeman (M)

Ireland: 

Aaron Knox (M)
Conal Jackson (M)
Christian Dromgoole (M)
Tyler Dromgoole (M)

Rebecca Jackson (F)
Shriya Drawid (F)
Zoe Yeomans (F)

Japan:

Ren Makino (M)
Shunsaku Kariyazono (M)
Shu Takahashi (M)
Haruto Mori (M)

Anna Kuwahara (F)
Himari Midorikawa (F)
Emily Senior (F)
Rio Yoshino (F)

Kuwait:

Khaled Walead Al Fouzain (M)
Abdullah Ali (M)
Abdul Rahman Al Sanea (M)
Abdulrahman Alkandari (M)

Macau, China:

Keng In Leong (M)
Ka Hei Lei (M)
Ian Miguel De Sousa (M)
Wu Cheok Io (M)

Sierra Chi Cheng Cao (F)
Ianna Chi Ian Cao (F)
Lok Iong Huang (F)

Malaysia: 

Nickhileswar Moganasundharam (M)
Aqil Mirza Naim Khairil Fariz (M)
Altamis A Sufian (M)
Ivan Jia Yu Chang (M)

Harleein Tan (F)
Whitney Wilson (F)
Doyce Ye San Lee (F)
Haneesha Veerakumar (F)

Mexico:

Luis Marcos Méndez Lara (M)
Carlos Sebastian Buenrostro-Orozco (M)
Juan Pablo Ramirez Valencia (M)
Alexis Sebastián Martín Rosas (M)

Gabriela Valentina Buenrostro-Orozco (F)

Netherlands:

Quinten Van Es (M)
Yago Daniel Origel Koers (M)
Jesper Hempenius (M)
Freek Bonnema (M)

Renske Huntelaar (F)
Elcke Mols (F)

New Zealand:

Maximus Mathews (M)
Vihan Chathury (M)
Ciaran Manning (M)
Jack Lord (M)

Amalia Ricketts (F)
Brooke Valois (F)
Liberty Jones (F)
Charlee Neilson (F)

Nigeria: 

Yusuf Quadri (M)
Shuaib Giwa (M)
Joshua Daniel (M)
Monday Benjamin (M)

Mosturah Durosinlorun (F)
Awawu Balogun (F)
Delight Allison (F)
Khadija Abdulraheem (F)

Pakistan:

Abdullah Nawaz (M)
Nauman Khan (M)
Muhammad Umair Arif (M)
Yahya Khan (M)

Paraguay:

Fiorella Gatti (F)

Peru:
Carlos Torres (M)
Amaro Castillo (M)

Portugal:

Sophia Akbar (F)
Kiara Fernandes (F)

Saudi Arabia: 

Mohammed Alnasfan (M)
Hassan Aldawood (M)

Scotland:

Murdo Mackenzie (M)
Cailean McAlpine (M)
John Green (M)
Zack Paton (M)

Ella Bannister (F)

South Africa:

Juan-Corné Brand (M)
Joseph Feast (M)
Benjamin Newman (M)
Dylan Keswell (M)

Starla Phillips (F)
Brianna Robinson (F)
Makayla Naidoo (F)
Vivienne van der Schyff (F)

Spain:

Oriol Salvia Ripoll (M)

Sri Lanka: 

Matheesha Wijesekara (M)

St. Vincent & the Grenadines:

Jayden George (M)

Sweden
Rasmus Taube Eliasson (M)
Ivar Sawen (M)

Switzerland:

Nick Melvin Greter (M)
Leandro Vogel (M)
Mika Von Aesch (M)
Morris Frey (M)

USA:

Yaseen Shalaby (M)
Brendan Tagliarini (M)
Aiden Chiang (M)
Lars Gertsen (M)

Diya Yadav (F)
Charlotte Sze (F)
Lily Bourell (F)
Ava Lin (F)

Wales: 

Nia Seren Thomas (F)