Egypt not only won all the individual medals in the 2010 Men's World Junior Team Squash Championship, but now holds all four main world team titles In a dramatic climax to the 2010 Men's World Junior Team Squash Championship in the Ecuador capital Quito, top seeds Egypt beat defending champions Pakistan 2-1 to win the World Squash Federation title for the third time since 1994. New world individual champion Amr Khaled Khalifa put the favourites into a commanding position in the tie after beating Pakistan number one Danish Atlas Khan 11-3, 11-9, 11-3 in a victory which marked his 10th successive win in the two-week-long championships. But second seeds Pakistan charged back into contention when Nasir Iqbal ended Ali Farag's unbeaten run in the team event by overcoming the individual championship runner-up 11-8, 6- 11, 11-7, 2-11, 11-8 in a 65-minute encounter to level the tie. But it took a further nail-biting 50 minutes before the destination of the title was resolved when 17-year-old Marwan El-Shorbagi repeated his individual championship bronze medal win over Farhan Zaman to beat the 18-year-old Pakistani 11-5, 4-11, 11-9, 11-9. It was a glorious conclusion to the championships for Egypt which not only claimed all the medals in the individual championship, but now hold all four main world team titles, the men's and women's senior and junior crowns . Fifth seeds Canada celebrated their best finish in the championship since 1992 after upsetting third seeds and former champions England 2-1 in the bronze medal play-off for third place. India also claimed a 2-1 victory in the fifth place play-off but it proved a notable conclusion for runners-up New Zealand, the 11th seeds whose sixth place was their best finish in 18 years. There was further cause for celebration in the Korea camp when the 16th-seeded team, in only their second appearance in the championship, beat Colombia in the play-off for 13th place -- thus finishing 16 places higher than in their 2000 debut. Omneya Abdel-Qawi became the first Egyptian to reach the top five in the women's world squash rankings after moving up to a career-high No 5 in the August list published by the Women's International Squash Players' Association (WISPA). The 24-year-old from Cairo claimed her seventh WISPA World Tour title at the Hurghada International in her home country in May when she celebrated her 24th appearance in a Tour final, and her seventh time in a row in the climax of the established Red Sea resort event. Malaysia's Nicol David moves into her fifth year at the top of the rankings after beginning her current reign in August 2006. The 26-year-old from Penang won last month's CIMB Singapore Masters for the fourth successive year to celebrate the 46th Tour title of her career and her fifth WISPA Gold title of the year. England's Jenny Duncalf remains at No 2, ahead of Australia's Rachael Grinham at three, and compatriot Alison Waters, runner-up to David in Singapore, in fourth place. Camille Serme also celebrated a career-best ranking in the new list, moving up a single place to No 9 to become France's highest- ranked woman of all-time. The 21-year-old from Creteil, in Paris, was a quarter-finalist in both last month's CIMB Malaysian Open and CIMB Singapore Open. Egypt's Raneem El-Weleili also had cause for celebration, rising to a career-high 11th place after reaching the Malaysian Open semi-finals as a qualifier Amr Khaled Khalifa outlasted fellow countryman Ali Farag in the final of the Men's World Junior Squash Championship on an all-glass court at El Condado Shopping Mall in the Ecuador capital Quito to become the third successive Egyptian winner of the World Squash Federation event in its 17th year. While Farag, the 18-year-old second seed, reached the final without dropping a game, favourite Khalifa was taken the full distance in the semi-finals for the first time by compatriot Marwan El-Shorbagi, a 9/16 seed. And it was underdog Farag who claimed the initial advantage, winning the first game 11-8. But in the battle between the two teenagers from Cairo, 17- year-old Khalifa began to exert his authority on the opponent whom he had last beaten on the international stage in the quarter-finals of the British Junior U15 Open more than three years ago. Favourite Khalifa took the second game by a two-point margin, then survived a tie- break third before confirming his advantage in the fourth to claim his title-winning 8-11, 11-9, 12-10, 11-7 in exactly one hour. Khalifa extends Egypt's grip on the title to six years after Rami Ashour, the current world No 2, won the trophy in 2004 and 2006, and Mohamed El-Shorbagi, now ranked 13, in 2008 and 2009. And the country secured a clean sweep of the 2010 medals when Marwan El-Shorbagi beat Pakistan's Farhan Zaman, also a 9/16 seed, 15- 17, 11-6, 12-10, 14-12 in the bronze medal play-off.
