Twenty-year-old Lucie Stefanoni has qualified for the million dollar PSA World Championships by winning the Pan American World Championships qualifying event Friday, April 11, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Stefanoni, a sophomore at Harvard, entered the Pan American qualifying event as an unseeded player, and progressed to the final with upsets against the four and one seeds on the way to the final. After winning a five-game semifinal, Stefanoni defeated Barbados’ two seed Margot Prow in a five-game final 11-7, 9-11, 12-10, 3-11, 12-10.
Stefanoni joins her older sister, Marina, in the World Championships draw, as well as other U.S. teammates Olivia Weaver, Amanda Sobhy and Sabrina Sobhy. Lucie will face Egypt’s fourteen seed Nada Abbas in the first round.
The U.S. qualifying finals will take place next weekend at the Arlen Specter US Squash Center April, 19-20.
The PSA World Championships return to Chicago with $1,300,000 of prize money on offer. For more tournament coverage and tickets visit worldsquashchamps.com.