Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Team USA arrive in England for the 2015 British Junior Open!


For the first time ever, Team USA's junior team will be descending on Sheffield for the 2015 British Junior Open.

On Tuesday December 30th, the players arrived at The Village Hotel, Warrington, for three days training before beginning their quest across the Pennines to Sheffield for the 2015 BJO hosted at Hallamshire Tennis & Squash Club, Abbeydale Sports Club and Fulwood Sports Club.

The British Junior Open is considered the world age-group championships at all age groups other than U19, however some formidable names have been crowned BJO Champion in the past. Names include, Nick Matthew, Greg Gaultier, Karim Darwish, Ramy Ashour (all previous World #1's) and current world #1 Mohamed Elshorbagy - a recent university graduate - on the male side. For the women, names such as Nicol David, Nour El Sherbini and Camille Serme.

Team USA will continue to work hard and are striving to add to the names of Michelle Quibell (GU17) and Olivia Blatchford (GU15) who have previously won BJO titles.

Follow all the action here, or on twitter @TeamUSASquash.

Go Team USA!!