19 nations to compete in Womens World Team Squash Cshi

PARIS: While hosts France will be bidding to reach the final for the first time in the event’s 37-year history, European rivals England – winners of the championship two years ago in Canada – will be striving to defend their title at the 2016 WSF Women’s World Team Squash Championship, which will be staged in the suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux and the French capital Paris from November 28 to December 3.Nineteen nations will compete in the biennial World Squash Federation event, hosted by the F’d’ration Fran’aise de Squash, which will take place at the historic Jeu De Paume and St Cloud Squash clubs, with final stages being held on an all-glass court at the Palais Des Sports Robert Charpentier.Competing in the championship will be Australia, Austria, Canada, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong (China), India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, USA and Wales. Currently boasting four players in the world top ten – led by the new world number one and World Champion Nour El-Sherbini – Egypt are likely to be seeded to reclaim the title they won for the second time in 2012, when the event was last held in France.