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31/05/2019
World Doubles 2019 News
Hosts Australia Set For Triple Gold At Gold Coast
World Doubles
Australia are seeded win all three gold medals in the 2019 WSF World
Doubles Squash Championships next month on home soil - 15 years after
becoming the first country to achieve the triple in the 2004
championships in India.
The sixth World Doubles Championships will take place in Queensland next
month at the new Carrara Squash Centre in Gold Coast, from 17-21 June.
"World Doubles Squash is growing in importance and significance
internationally," said David Mandel, President of Squash Australia. "It
is now part of the next Asian Games, the Pan Pacific and of course the
Commonwealth Games. It is bringing a new audience of spectators to our
sport, as we saw at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. And
Australia is and has been a major supporter of this form of our sport,
for many years."
Ryan Cuskelly & Cameron Pilley are seeded to retain the Men's title they
won in the 2017 championships in England. Pilley, a former world No.11,
is predicted for double gold success in Carrara where he and cousin
Donna Lobban are also favourites in the Mixed Doubles.
The 36-year-old from Yamba in New South Wales is a three-time
Commonwealth Games Doubles gold medallist - winning the Mixed title in
2018 with Lobban (then Donna Urquhart) and in 2010 with Kasey Brown, and
the Men's Doubles gold in 2014 with David Palmer.
Left-hander Donna Lobban pairs up with Christine Nunn in the Women's
Doubles, in which they are the top seeds. Lobban will be keen to go one
better than her Women's World Doubles success in 2016 when she and
Rachael Grinham finished as silver medallists.
Medal success is predicted for Colombia for the first time in the
event's 22-year history. Catalina Pelaez - twice a Pan American Doubles
gold medallist - & Ronald Palomino are No.2 seeds in the Mixed
competition, while Andrés Herrera & Juan Camilo and sisters Laura Tovar
& Maria Tovar are seeded to win Bronze in the Men's & Women's events,
respectively.
World stage minnows Malta are also expected to shine in Carrara where
Bradley Hindle & Kijan Sultana are No.7 seeds in the Men's event and
Colette Sultana & Bradley Hindle are sixth Mixed seeds.
The full seeding and Pools for the 2019 championships is as follows:
Men's Doubles:
Pool A
1 Ryan Cuskelly & Cameron Pilley (AUS)
4 Nicholas Calvert & Thomas Calvert (AUS)
5 Jean-Pierre Brits & Christo Potgieter (RSA)
8 Madison Eggert & Thomas King (CAN)
9 Robert Andrew Garcia & David Pelino (PHI)
Pool B
2 Zac Alexander & Rex Hedrick (AUS)
3 Andrés Herrera & Juan Camilo Vargas (COL)
6 Darren Chan & Bryan Lim Tze Kang (MAS)
7 Bradley Hindle & Kijan Sultana (MLT)
10 Ravindu Laksiri & Shamil Wakeel (SRI)
*Withdrawn: Diego Elias & Alonso Escudero (PER)
Mixed Doubles:
Pool A
1 Donna Lobban & Cameron Pilley (AUS)
4 Christine Nunn & Ethan Eyles (AUS)
5 Jemyca Aribado & Robert Andrew Garcia (PHI)
Pool B
2 Catalina Pelaez & Ronald Palomino (COL)
3 Alex Haydon & Zac Alexander (AUS)
6 Colette Sultana & Bradley Hindle (MLT)
7 Aysah Dalida & Reymark Begornia (PHI)
Women's Doubles:
One Pool
1 Donna Lobban & Christine Nunn (AUS)
2 Sarah Cardwell & Jessica Turnbull (AUS)
3 Laura Tovar & Maria Tovar (COL)
4 Taylor Flavell & Selena Shaikh (AUS)
5 Jemyca Aribado & Aysah Dalida (PHI)
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