Canadian Talent Shines at the 2025 Canadian Junior Open Presented by Forthlane Partners

After four days of competition featuring over 900 matches and participants from over 17 countries, the 2025 Canadian Junior Open presented by Forthlane Partners has concluded. Hosted at The Club at White Oaks and the Jack Aylott Squash Centre at Ridley College, the event showcased over 370 athletes competing in boys’ and girls’ U11, U13, U15, U17, U19, PSA NextGen categories from December 13–16.  

At this year’s C.J.O. Canadian players were standouts with 41 Canadian athletes finishing in the top five of their respective age categories. Canadians secured an impressive 29 medals, including 9 of the 12 available Golds. Congratulations to Wing Kai Gladys Ho of British Columbia (GU19), Calder Murray of Alberta (BU19), Joelle Kim of British Columbia (GU17), Kent Rawlins of Ontario (BU17), Obie Ryding of Ontario (BU15), Shirley Chen of Ontario (GU13), Chase Facchin of Ontario (BU13), Rhea Zhang of British Columbia (GU11) and Niki Shemirani of Ontario (Women’s NextGen) for taking home the Gold. See below for the complete list of medallists. 

Squash Canada would like to acknowledge the support of Forthlane Partners as presenting sponsor of the Canadian Junior Open and sincerely thank the Government of Ontario for their extraordinary support of this event. Squash Canada would also like to recognize the contributions of White Oaks Resort & Spa, and Tournament Co-Chairs’ Matt Easingwood and Nicholas Sachvie, and Dave Forgeron with Ridley College for hosting this world-class event.

Boys  Girls 
U11 
  1. Santiago Mateus Melo (COL) 
  2. Maddox Lee (BC) 
  3. Jayden Xiuzhu Wang (BC) 
  4. Harvey Liu (ON) 
  5. Adam Hashmi (MB) 
  1. Rhea Zhang (BC) 
  2. Olivia Wijaya Liong (BC) 
  3. Sophia Xu (BC) 
  4. Jennifer Yun (BC) 
  5. Lucinda Lu (BC) 
U13 
  1. Chase Facchin (ON) 
  2. Nolan Ryding (ON) 
  3. Mikael Humayun (ON) 
  4. Atticus Oliver (ON) 
  5. Julian Deschamps (AB) 
  1. Shirley Chen (ON) 
  2. Joanna Zheng (BC) 
  3. Queenie Zhang (USA) 
  4. Eugenie Cao (BC) 
  5. Annie Wang (BC) 
U15 
  1. Obie Ryding (ON) 
  2. Thomas Gavilanes (ECU) 
  3. Ibrahim Hosny (AB) 
  4. Esteban Suarez (COL) 
  5. Arman Takmazyan (ON) 
  1. Alice Huang (USA) 
  2. Lily Fan (BC) 
  3. Victoria Cai (BC) 
  4. Fiona Mao (AB) 
  5. Lyvia Han (ON) 
U17 
  1. Kent Rawlins (ON) 
  2. Shaan Jolly (ON) 
  3. Jack Chen (ON) 
  4. Josué Pérez (MEX) 
  5. Fangda Cui (ON) 
  1. Joelle Kim (BC) 
  2. Sasha Lee (ON) 
  3. Olivia Bolger (ON) 
  4. Heyang Angela Hong (BC) 
  5. Veera Dhaliwal (BC) 
U19 
  1. Calder Murray (AB)  
  2. Luis Marcos Mendez (MEX) 
  3. Sebastian Aristizabal (COL) 
  4. Youssef Taha (AB)  
  5. Rohan Paliwal (AB) 
  1. Wing Kai Gladys Ho (BC) 
  2. Camila Sabogal (QC) 
  3. Zoe Chong (ON) 
  4. Sarbani Maitra (AUS) 
  5. Hasti Shemirani (ON) 
PSA NextGen 
  1. Abdelrahman Nassar (EGY) 
  2. Wasey Maqsood (ON) 
  3. Jayden Shortt (ON) 
  1. Niki Shemirani (ON) 
  2. Molly Chadwick (ON) 
  3. Lialah Mavani (QC)