England is pinning its hopes on a young squad to retrieve the European Junior U19 Team Championship title which the nation lost to Germany last year after a 21-year reign. All but one of the five-player mixed squad named today by England Squash are aged 17.

Hong Kong's Annie Au collected her third successive international junior squash title in five weeks when she beat Dutch opponent Milou van der Heijden in the women's U19 final of the Austrian Junior Open in Vienna.

Favourites Karim AGA Samy, from Egypt, and Annie Au, from Hong Kong, lifted the U19 titles in the Welsh Junior Open for the first time at St Mellons Country Club in Cardiff.

While France's Camille Serme celebrated her third successive appearance in the final with her second women's win, Switzerland's Nicolas Mueller made up for the disappointment of a semi-final exit last year by clinching the men's title in the French Junior U19 Open in Marseille for the first time.

For the second year in a row, Egypt claimed six of the eight titles in the Powerplaysports British Junior Open in Sheffield, England.

Egypt, winner of six titles a year ago, are on course to become the only country to be represented in all eight finals of the Powerplaysports British Junior Open after impressive displays by their players on the third day of action in Sheffield, England.