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Yassein Shohdy [9/16] 3-0 Kousei Toki 11-6, 11-8, 11-5
Mohamed Zakaria [3/4] 3-0 Daniel Deverill (Can) 11-1, 11-2, 11-5
Salman Khalil [5/8] 3-0 Faazil Khan (Can) 11-5, 11-4, 12-10
Omar Said Sobhy [9/16] 3-0 Fabian Igelbrink (Ger) 11-2, 11-2, 11-3
Kareem El Torkey [9/16] 3-0 Thomas Soltanian (Usa) 11-7, 11-5, 11-7
Yehia Abouraya 3-2 Yujin Ikeda (Jpn) 6-11, 11-9, 7-11, 12-10, 11-1

Amina Orfi [1] 3-0 Yuvna Gupta (Ind) 11-1, 11-4, 11-5
Nadien Elhammamy [9/16] 3-0 Dené Van Zyl 11-2, 11-3, 11-1
Zeina Kareem Zein El-Din [5/8] 3-0 Anna Halliday (Sco) 11-2, 11-2, 11-4
Malak Khafagy [3/4] 3-0 Meha Shah 11-7, 11-7, 11-5
Fayrouz Abouelkheir [2] 3-0 Hannah Slyth (Aus) 11-3, 11-1, 11-2

The 2023 WSF World Junior Squash Championships got off to an entertaining start in Melbourne. 135 matches and two rounds took place across ten courts inside the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. The seeded players navigated tough challenges.

With the seeded players receiving a first-round bye they went into their second-round matches fresher but perhaps less sharp than their round two opponents, who came through first-round clashes in the day’s first session.

While the majority appeared to show no signs of rust, with women’s defending champion and top seed Amina Orfi, there were some scares for the seeds, most notably for No.2 seed and men’s defending champion Rowan Damming, who went 0-1 down to France’s Antonin Romieu, with Dutchman able to settle, eventually going through 7-11, 11-4, 11-8, 11-6.

[9/16] seed Nadien Elhammamy will play home hopeful Madison Lyon.

EGYPT COACHES TO SUCCESS

Earlier in the day, Lukas Kazemekaitis made history when he secured Lithuania’s first ever win at a World Junior Championship, with the 16-year-old, coached by Mazen Gamal, coming from behind to beat South Africa’s Devon Osborne before eventually losing out to India’s Shaurya Bawa in the second round.