Malaysian squash starlet S. Sivasangari was named the Women's Young Player of the Year at the 2017/18 Professional Squash Association (PSA) Awards on Monday.

It capped a good 12 months for the 19-year-old, who beat Egypt's Hania El Hammamy to the honour.

Last year, she won three PSA Tour titles and two gold medals at the Kuala Lumpur SEA Games, leading her to be nominated for the National Sports Awards' Sportswoman of the Year

The current world no.40 ended her junior career with a win at the 2018 British Junior Open in January before partnering with Rachel Arnold to defeat world squash doubles champions Joelle King and Amanda Landers-Murphy en route to the quarter-finals at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in April.

Meanwhile, world no.1s Mohamed El Shorbagy and Nour El Sherbini picked up the Player of Year Awards, and former world junior champion Diego Elias was named the Men's Young Player of the Year for the second year running.

2017/18 PSA AWARDS WINNERS
PSA Men’s Player of the Year: Mohamed El Shorbagy
PSA Women’s Player of the Year: Nour El Sherbini
PSA Men’s Young Player of the Year: Diego Elias
PSA Women’s Young Player of the Year: S. Sivasangari
Spirit Of Squash – Men’s: Miguel Angel Rodriguez
Spirit Of Squash – Women’s: Raneem El Welily
Services To Squash: Ziad Al-Turki
Shot of the Year – Men: Miguel Angel Rodriguez
Shot of the Season – Women: Nour El Tayeb
Match of the Season – Men: Raphael Kandra vs Marwan ElShorbagy (2018 Allam British Open)
Match of the Year – Women: Nour El Tayeb vs Joelle King (2018 Windy City Open)