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British Junior Open 2002

All age-groups finalists with Lord and Lady Mayor of Sheffield

Rahmat Khan with the U15 & U17 finalists - perhaps a new era of Pakistan supremacy

U13 Final - Mohamed Aly Anwar (Egy) sweeps aside Mohamed Said (Egy)

U13 Final - Shahenda Osama (Egy) dominates her age-group

U15 Final - Farahan Mehboob (Pak) forces his way through Yasir Butt (Pak)

U15 Final - Raneem El-Welily beats fellow Egyptian Nihal Yehia

U17 Final - Kasey Brown (Aus) overpowers Sara Badr (Pak)

U17 Final - Safeer Khan (Pak) overcomes countryman Khalid Atlas

U19 Final - James Willstrop battles against Peter Barker in front of a full house

U19 Final - James Willstrop v Peter Barker

U19 Final - Omneya Abdel-Kawy (Egy) breezes through the event without dropping a game

U19 Final - Willstrop wins

Willstrop celebrates his U19 win

Egypt, Pakistan, England & Australia Share British Junior Open Spoils  from www.squashplayer.co.uk/bjo

Egypt, Pakistan, Australia and hosts England shared the spoils in the British Junior Open Squash Championships in Sheffield - with Egypt claiming four of the eight titles and Pakistan taking two to register the country's first success in the prestigious tournament since 1982.

Beaten finalist twelve months ago, favourite James Willstrop secured the Men's U-19 title, for the Drysdale Cup, in some style - beating fellow Englishman Peter Barker 9-6, 9-5, 9-4 in the 47-minute final to become the only domestic winner without conceding a game throughout the event. The talented 18-year-old from Pontefract in Yorkshire, runner-up in last year's European Junior Championships, now has British Junior Open titles at U-14, U-17 and U-19, and will seek to end his glittering junior career on a high this summer by winning the world junior crown in India.

Egypt's Omneya Abdel Kawy, still just 16, claimed the women's U-19 title for the second year running after defeating Switzerland's Manuela Zehnder 10-8, 9-6, 9-0 in the final. Zehnder, the fourth seed, upset England's No2 seed Laura-Jane Lengthorn in the semi-finals, but was unable to stop Kawy clinching her fifth successive British Junior Open trophy.

Pakistan squash achieved a much-needed boost by providing all four players - against the seedings - in the Men's U-17 and U-15 finals, with 7th seed Safeer Khan beating unseeded Khalid Atlas 9-6, 9-5, 9-2, in the U-17 climax to become the country's first British Junior Open winner since Asad Ahmed claimed the U-16 trophy twenty years ago. Atlas removed Egyptian top seed Sherif Mostafa Kamel in the semi-finals, while Khan despatched No2 seed Mahmoud Adel, also from Egypt, at the same stage for the loss of just six points.

The U-15 final was an unseeded contest, with Farahan Mehboob eventually overcoming Yasir Butt 7-9, 9-1, 9-4, 8-10, 9-4.

Kasey Brown became the first Australian since Carin Clonda in 1979 to claim a women's British Junior Open title when she clinched her anticipated U-17 final win over Egypt's No2 seed Sara Badr. Brown's 9-6, 9-3, 9-2 victory marked the end of a three-year unbeaten run by Badr who won the U-15 title in January 2001, and the U-13 crown over the previous two years.

The remaining titles went according to seedings - in all-Egyptian finals.  Raneem El-Welily beat Nihal Yehia 6-9, 9-2, 9-7, 9-5 in the women's U-15 final to claim her second successive Sheffield crown, while in the U-13 final, Shahenda Osama defeated Esraa Samy Saied 9-2, 9-2, 9-2. The Men's U-13 event became an exclusive Egyptian affair by the semi-final stage - which ultimately concluded with a 9-0, 9-7, 9-0 victory by Mohamed Aly Anwar over Mohamed Said Mahmoud in the final.

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