September 2010
September 30, 2010 •
Tags: Chicago, Manuela Manetta, US Open, WISPA • Categories: all posts, players, tournaments
Italian Manuela Manetta (pic) scored the best win of her career when she dismissed Dutch top seed Natalie Grinham in the 1st round of the Metro Squash Women’s US Open. The straight games upset (11-6, 11-9, 11-8) takes the 27-year-old from Parma to an unexpected place in the quarter-finals of the $36,500 WISPA event in Chicago. Grinham is on a Tour comeback trail after giving birth to her first child in May. All the other top seeds reached the quarters, the line-up: Manuela Manetta (ITA) v [6] Latasha Khan (USA), [4] Aisling Blake (IRL) v [8] Amanda Sobhy (USA), [3] Isabelle Stoehr (FRA) v [5] Line Hansen (DEN), [2] Vanessa Atkinson (NED) v [7] Emma Beddoes (ENG).
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September 29, 2010 •
Tags: Chicago, Mohammed Abbas, Nicolas Muller, PSA, US Open • Categories: all posts, players, tournaments
Egypt’s former world No13 Mohammed Abbas scored another notable win in his comeback bid after a long injury layoff when he beat 5th seed Alister Walker, the world No17 from England, to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open in Chicago. With this 3-2-victory (3-11, 11-4, 11-7, 10-12, 11-9) Abbas reached the quarter-finals of a major PSA event for the first time in more than two years. Swiss fellow Nicolas Mueller (pic) produced the 2nd upset in Chicago when he downs Hisham Mohd Ashour, the No7 seed from Egypt, 11-8, 9-11, 8-11, 11-8, 11-7. All other top seeds where able to reach the quarter-finals. Line-up: [2] Wael El Hindi (EGY) v [13] Nicolas Mueller (SUI), [4] Mohamed El Shorbagy (EGY) v [8] Olli Tuominen (FIN), [3] Laurens Jan Anjema (NED) v Mohammed Abbas (EGY), [1] Thierry Lincou (FRA) v [6] Omar Mosaad (EGY).
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September 28, 2010 •
Tags: Adrian Waller, Chicago, Mohammed Abbas, PSA, US Open • Categories: all posts
Adrian Waller, a former England junior international, produced one of two upsets in the 1st round of the main draw in the 2010 Metro Squash US Open when he ousted (9-11, 11-8, 11-9, 11-5) Brazil’s 14th seed Rafael F Alarcon to reach the last 16 of the $80,000 PSA event in Chicago. Egypt’s Mohammed Abbas (pic) also caused an upset when he defeated England’s No15 seed Chris Ryder 11-8, 12-10, 11-8. The unseeded former world No13 is making his Tour comeback after a long-time foot injury. 2nd round line-up: [2] Wael El Hindi (EGY) v [9] Shahier Razik (CAN), [7] Hisham Mohd Ashour (EGY) v [13] Nicolas Mueller (SUI), [4] Mohamed El Shorbagy (EGY) v [10] Tom Richards (ENG), [8] Olli Tuominen (FIN) v [12] Julian Illingworth (USA), [5] Alister Walker (ENG) v Mohammed Abbas (EGY), [3] Laurens Jan Anjema (NED) v [11] Simon Rosner (GER), [6] Omar Mosaad (EGY) v [16] Mark Krajcsak (HUN), [1] Thierry Lincou (FRA) v Adrian Waller (ENG).
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September 28, 2010 •
Tags: Dutch Open, Netherlands, PSA, Rotterdam, WISPA • Categories: all posts, tournaments
The Dutch Open will take place from 16th to 21st of November in Rotterdam. It will be the 3rd biggest squash tournament in Europe in 2010 and will feature a WISPA Silver 20 and s PSA 3 Star event. A total prize fund of US$55,000 will attract some of the world’s best players to Rotterdam. Malaysia’s World Champion Nicol David is the reigning titleholder in the women’s event having won the tournament in 2005, 2007 and 2008. The last three men’s editions were won by David Palmer (2007), Nick Matthew (2008) and Daryl Selby (2009). Promoter NextSquash and its tournament partners will stage the Dutch Open in Rotterdam as pre-event to the World Open Squash 2011, the individual world championship (men and women), which will be staged next year in the renowned Luxor Theatre in Rotterdam.
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September 27, 2010 •
Tags: Jena Real Estates Open, Kuwait, Mohd Ali Anwar Reda, PSA • Categories: all posts, players, tournaments
Mohd Ali Anwar Reda (pic) marked his 10th title of his career when he won the Jena Real Estates Open No2 in Kuwait. The world No28 from Cairo was taken to five games by unseeded Abdullah Almezayen in the quarter-finals before beating the Kuwaiti, ranked more than 70 places lower, 8-11, 11-8, 11-3, 5-11, 11-3. It took four games for 21-year-old Reda to overcome 7th seeded compatriot Andrew Wagih Shoukry in the semi-finals before he faced unseeded Egyptian Ali Farag in the final. 18-years-old Farag took Reda to five games before the favourite finally emerged triumphant 11-2, 8-11, 11-9, 8-11, 11-3 after 63 minutes.
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September 26, 2010 •
Tags: Amr Shabana, Chicago, PSA, Thierry Lincou, US Open • Categories: all posts, tournaments
Before the start of the US Open in Chicago No.1 seed Egyptian Amr Shabana pulled out of the 5-star PSA tournament and Frenchman Thierry Lincou slipped to the top position. One very interesting question rises when you are looking at the tournament’s website which shows Greg Gaultier: Who changed Greg’s racket there? We never saw the Frenchman using a racket like this.
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Honorary Co-Chairs Mayor Richard M. Daley and Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Event Chair Clare Muñana, Vice President of the Chicago Board of Education, invite you to attend the 2010 U.S. Open in Millennium Park. The event features a professional sanctioned tournament that will attract 96 of the …
September 24, 2010 •
Tags: I love squash • Categories: all posts, supporters
The I love squash community celebrate their one years anniversary and did jump over the 6000 fan barrier like nothing. Now we storm to the 7000 fan-border and would aim for 10000 fans next year. Thank you to all the people who have supported this initiative so far and to all whom will do further on.
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September 24, 2010 •
Tags: Nicol David, Omneya Abdel Kawy, WISPA, Women's World Open • Categories: all posts, players, tournaments
Malaysia’s Nicol David won a record-equalling 5th World Open squash title when she beat local hope Omneya Abdel Kawy in straight games (11-5, 11-8, 11-6) in the final Soho Square Women’s World Open at Sharm El Sheikh. Abdel Kawy, the fourth seed from Cairo who became the 1st Egyptian ever to reach the world final, was unable to get any control of the match. Nicol David became the dominant force in women’s world squash shortly after the retirement of Sarah Fitz-Gerald, the distinguished Australian who first notched up a fifth World Open title in 2002.
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