HOUSTON – Four incoming Virginia squash players will be competing at the 2024 WSF World Junior Squash Championships, being held July 12-23 at the Houston Squash Club in Houston, Texas.
Nathan Rosenzweig, Ewan Harris and Juan Jose Torres will be competing in Boy’s U19 while Maria Min will play in Girls’ U19.
The individual tournament runs from July 12-17 with the team event running July 18-23.
The team events feature three players (picked from squads of four players) from each team battling it out, with the first team to win two matches being victorious.
This year’s event will see the men’s team event and the women’s team event held concurrently for the first time in World Squash history, with tournaments traditionally alternating the team events each year.
243 players from 39 national federations are competing in this year’s WSF World Junior Squash Championships.
Torres is a 3/4 seed in the Boy’s individual tournament. After being in the top eight in 2022, he finished fifth at the 2023 World Junior Championship, the first Colombian player to ever reach the quarterfinals of the championship.
In addition to live scoring on Club Locker, action from the show court will also be streamed on Squash TV (subscription required) with streams from the side courts streaming here.
RESULTS
R128: Ewan Harris def. Yuv Pahuja 11-1, 11-4, 11-1
R64: Ewan Harris vs Adham Roshdy
R128: Nathan Rosenzweig def. Pan Hong-Rui 11-2, 11-1, 11-1
R64: Nathan Rosensweig vs. Jose Santamaria or Youssef Sarhan
R128: Juan Jose Torres def Mika von Aesch 11-5, 11-2, 11-4
R64: Juan Jose Torees vs Oliver Dunbar
R128: Valerie Huang def. Maria Min 11-5, 11-7, 8-11, 3-11, 11-3
C64: Maria Min def. Shu-Yu Lee 11-2, 11-1, 11-2
C32: Maria Min vs Sehar Nayar