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Ireland face tough groups at 2025 World Squash Junior Championships in Cairo
Junior | 26.07.2025

Ireland face tough groups at 2025 World Squash Junior Championships in Cairo

Home / News / Ireland face tough groups at 2025 World Squash Junior Championships in Cairo
Junior | 26.07.2025

Ireland’s men’s and women’s squash teams face stiff competition in the 2025 World Squash Junior Championships in Cairo, following a challenging group-stage draw that places them against several top-ranked teams.

Ireland’s No.17-ranked men’s team will compete against the No.4, No.8 and No.18 seeds in the event which involves 22 teams split across six groups. Four groups – including Ireland’s – have four teams, while the remaining two groups have three.

🇮🇪 Team Members:

  • Christian Dromgoole
  • Conal Jackson
  • Aaron Knox
  • Danny Lynch

Match schedule (Local time / Irish time):

  • 🆚 Hong Kong China (No.8): Sunday, 11am / 9am Irish
  • 🆚 England (No.4): Sunday, 6pm / 4pm Irish
  • 🆚 Scotland (No.18): Monday, 3pm / 1pm Irish

Dromgoole, Jackson, Knox and Lynch all competed in the opening week’s individual tournament. Nathan Hann and Frank O’Flynn, who also took part individually, will not feature in the team event.

Ireland’s No.15-ranked women’s team has also received a difficult draw in a tournament split into four groups of four teams.

🇮🇪 Team members:

  • Ella Erickson
  • Riley Slade
  • Ella Sutton
  • Zeo Yeomans

Match schedule (Local time / Irish time):

  • 🆚 India (No.7): Sunday, 2pm / 12pm Irish
  • 🆚 Brazil (No.10): Monday, 12pm / 10am Irish
  • 🆚 Hong Kong China (No.2): Tuesday, 12pm / 10am Irish

Slade, Sutton and Yeomans all featured in the week-one individual competition, with Erickson now joining for the team event.