WSF World Junior Squash Championships 20 July – 31 July 2026, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada
We’ve reached semi-finals day at the 2025 World Squash Junior Championships as the last four players in each draw make a final push for a place in tomorrow’s championship match.
Play begins at 15:00 (GMT+3) on the all-glass show court at Black Ball Sporting Club and will be streamed live and free on WORLDSQUASH.TV (excluding Egypt, KSA, Pakistan, UAE), Myco and ON Sport.
Play begins with top seed, defending champion and World No.5 Amina Orfi against 5/8 seed Sohayla Hazem in the pair’s first official match. Orfi is two wins away from etching her name into squash’s record books, with the 18-year-old hoping to become the first ever player to win the championship four times.
Hazem, meanwhile, will be hoping her testing five-game encounter with Tsz Ching Cheung last night will have her battle hardened as she takes on the pre-tournament favourite.
The second women’s semi-final sees the only non-Egyptian representative in action today as Indian No.2 seed Anahat Singh faces Egyptian 3/4 seed Nadien Elhammamy.
A win for Singh today would make her India’s first finalist since Joshna Chinappa in 2005.
The pair go into today’s clash with a good knowledge of each other’s game, meeting four times in the last two years. The record stands at two wins each, with all four matches going to five games.
Singh was the winner last time out, in the quarter-final of the Indian Open in March. Can she repeat the result or will Elhammamy have her revenge on home court?
In the first men’s semi-final, top seed and defending champion Mohamad Zakaria faces 3/4 seed Eaid Daoud in the pair’s first official meeting.
Zakaria, who became the youngest ever male winner of the event last year in Houston, goes in as the favourite having already reached World No.14. Daoud will back himself though, having upset the odds earlier this year by winning the British Junior Open as 5/8 seed.
The final clash of the day pits 3/4 seed Marwan Asal – younger brother of reigning World Champion and World No.1 Mostafa Asal – against tournament surprise package Adham Roshdy.
Roshdy captured headlines in the Round of 16 with a stunning win over last year’s finalist JooYoung Na, and the 18-year-old will be hoping to find a similar performance against Asal today in their first official meeting.
Asal, meanwhile, has made serene progress through the competition and is yet to drop a game.
In addition to today’s semi-final matches, plate matches are taking place throughout the day.
Click here to view livescores from all matches in Presentation View.
The 2025 World Squash Junior Championships are taking place at Black Ball Sporting Club, Cairo, Egypt, from July 21 – 01 August. The championships, which feature male and female individual and team championships, are held every year for the world’s best squash players aged under 19.
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