Squash: Winning start for NZ

Joelle King. Photo / Lisa Tauroa

New Zealand has had a comfortable win in the opening round of pool play at the women's World Team Squash Championships in Palmerston North.

The kiwis have dispatched Canada 3-0, with all three matches won in straight games.

Double Commonwealth Games medalist Joelle King got the ball rolling with a 11-4, 11-6, 11-2 victory over Alex Norman, while Shelley Kitchen downed Stephanie Edmison 11-3, 11-5, 11-7.

Kiwi number one Jaclyn Hawkes then won the dead rubber.

- NEWSTALK ZB