17 Aug 2011

NZ grouped with defending champions at world squash team champs

6:47 pm on 17 August 2011

New Zealand has been grouped with second seeds and defending champions, Egypt, in the men's world squash teams championships starting in Germany this weekend.

Also in Pool B is Hong Kong and Sweden.

New Zealand is the 15th seed out of the 32 nations competing and is lead by Martin Knight who's ranked 46th in the world.

New Zealand's been runner up at the tournament three times, the last being in 1987.