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‘I have spent a lot of time with Nicol, and that has been special’ By MATT COLES Egyptian World No.1s Raneem El Welily and Ali Farag have both made it through to the third round of the El Gouna International Squash Open after winning on the spectacular glass court at Abu Tig Marina last night [...]

Scots Lobban and Clyne win through  By MATT COLES Spain’s Iker Pajares Bernabeu and England’s Julianne Courtice secured surprise victories against France’s Lucas Serme and Hong Kong’s Joey Chan, respectively, on day two of the El Gouna International as the PSA World Tour Platinum event continued at the El Gouna Squash Complex. World No.59 Pajares [...]

Declan James leads strong English contingent at Wimbledon By ELLIE MAWSON Egypt’s World No.11 Marwan ElShorbagy will lead the line-up at the Wimbledon Club Squash Squared Open when the PSA World Tour Bronze tournament takes place from May 11-16 in London, England. This year’s tournament, which takes place at The Wimbledon Club, will be the [...]

Emily Whitlock: ‘The last place I wanted to be was on a squash court’ By MATT COLES Eight-time World Champion Nicol David survived a scare against Egyptian wildcard Jana Shiha on day one of the El Gouna International, PSA World Tour Platinum event as she prevailed in a gripping five-game battle at the El Gouna [...]

Mohamed ElShorbagy lies in wait, looking for revenge By ELLIE MAWSON Defending champion Miguel Rodriguez has been pitted on the same side of the draw as last year’s runner-up Mohamed ElShorbagy after the draws for the 2019 Allam British Open were released today (Tuesday April 16). Taking place between May 20-26 at the University of [...]

Wadi Degla Club to host $320,000 season finale By SEAN REUTHE The star-studded PSA World Tour Finals will be held in Egypt for the first time after an agreement was reached between the Professional Squash Association (PSA) and title sponsors CIB to bring the world’s leading squash players to the Wadi Degla Club in Cairo [...]

  Your brain has to master four dimensions before you can master squash By CHRIS SARGENT – Squash Mad Columnist Why is squash so addictive if you are that way inclined? This is a question that has puzzled me ever since I started playing around 10 years ago. Why, because having never played a racket sport [...]

Annie Au wins biggest career title while Diego Elias win second title in a month By ALEX WAN – Squash Mad Asian Bureau Editor The wrath of the weather once again denied tonight’s final matches the prestige of being played at the impressive all-glass court set up at the Tap Seac Square. However, that did [...]

World number ones deliver the goods in DPD finals By ELLIE MAWSON Egypt’s World No.1s Ali Farag and Raneem El Welily are the 2019 DPD Open Squash champions after they claimed respective wins over Mohamed ElShorbagy and Nour El Sherbini in Eindhoven, Netherlands today. The PSA World Tour Gold tournament was held at the brand [...]

One and two in the world to compete in each final By ELLIE MAWSON An Egyptian quartet will feature in the finals of the DPD Open Squash as the world’s top four players – Raneem El Welily, Nour El Sherbini, Ali Farag and Mohamed ElShorbagy – get set to do battle for the PSA Gold [...]

Low Wee Wern beats third Egyptian in a row to make Macau final By ALEX WAN – Squash Mad Asian Bureau Editor The semi-final matches at the Tap Seac Square had to be cut short after heavy rain interrupted play halfway through the second game of the men’s first semi-final. Then, third seed Omar Mosaad [...]

Amanda Sobhy so close against world No.1 By ELLIE MAWSON Egypt’s World No.1 Raneem El Welily narrowly avoided defeat in the quarter-finals of the DPD Open Squash as she claimed a 3-2 win over United States World No.12 Amanda Sobhy in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The 30-year-old El Welily was pushed all the way in a tense [...]

Au makes the greatest escape while Lobban takes out Ghosal By ALEX WAN – Squash Mad Asian Bureau Editor Local favourite Annie Au pulled off what might be the greatest escape of her career when she saved four match balls at two games to one down, and come back to win her quarter final match [...]

Marwan tames Makin in 83-minute battle in Eindhoven By ELLIE MAWSON The third day of action at the DPD Squash Open, PSA Gold event saw all eight matches go the way of the higher-ranked player, with World No.2 Mohamed ElShorbagy setting up a quarter-final clash with younger brother, Marwan, in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The Egyptian brothers [...]

Low Wee Wern scores biggest win since injury comeback and seeds tested By ALEX WAN – Squash Mad Asian Bureau Editor Malaysia’s Low Wee Wern achieved her biggest win since coming back from a 20-month injury break here today when she ousted world number 14 and tournament second seed Salma Hany in convincing fashion. The [...]