July 2011
July 27, 2011 •
Tags: Australia, Boston, USA, Wales, Women's World Junior Squash Championship, WSF • Categories: all posts, teams, tournaments
In the biggest upset on the opening day of qualifying action in the Women’s World Junior Team Championship, underdogs Wales (pic) crushed 3-time former champions Australia 3/0 in the World Squash Federation event in Boston, USA. “We don’t beat Australia at many sports,” said a jubilant Wales coach Andrew Evans after his team’s stunning win. Firm favourites Egypt, led by the new world individual champion Nour El Tayeb, cruised to a 3/0 win over New Zealand. Hosts USA, seeded to reach the final in what would be their best ever finish after competing in all the championships since 1985, also made a positive start in Pool B, beating event debutants Guyana 3/0.
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July 26, 2011 •
Tags: Boston, Nour El Sherbini, Nour El Tayeb, USA, Women’s World Junior Squash Championship, WSF • Categories: all posts, players, tournaments
After she has failed in the 2009 and 2010 finals, it was the 3rd time lucky for Egypt’s Nour El Tayeb (pic) to take the Women’s World Junior Individual Title, when she overcame fellow Egyptian former champion (2009) Nour El Sherbini in 4 games in Boston, USA. “I’ve been dreaming about this for a long time,” admitted El Tayeb after her 11-5, 3-11, 11-7, 11-8 triumph in 42 minutes. “But I haven’t been thinking about winning or expecting to win when I’ve been on court, I’ve just been thinking about the match, the next point. El Tayeb’s success means that Egypt now boasts all 4 world junior squash titles – the Men’s & Women’s World Individual and World Team Championships.
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July 25, 2011 •
Tags: Germany, I love squash, Men’s World Team Championships, WSF • Categories: all posts, supporters, tournaments
The World Team Championship’s organizers did not forget the squash fans who would like to get souvenirs. But they also did not forget the I love squash fans. All shirts will show the Championship’s logo and an additional I love squash application to link to the community. 
Merchandising | Squash WMTC 2011
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Men’s World Team Championships, 21st – 27th of August.
July 25, 2011 •
Tags: Boston, Nour El Sherbini, Nour El Tayeb, USA, Women’s World Junior Squash Championship, WSF • Categories: all posts, players, tournaments
Egypt’s former champion Nour El Sherbini (pic ri) upset title-holder Amanda Sobhy (pic le) in the semi-finals (11-5, 12-10, 11-9, in 30 minutes) of the Women’s World Junior Championship to deny hosts USA home success in Boston. El Sherbini, the 15-year-old 2009 champion, will face Nour El Tayeb, the 18-year-old who reached the final for the 3rd year in a row after despatching England’s Emily Whitlock in straight games (11-8, 11-3, 11-5, in 25 minutes). The climax will mark the 2nd all-Egyptian world junior squash final in 8 days, after Marwan El Shorbagy took on Mohamed Abouelghar in the men’s individual final in Belgium.
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July 24, 2011 •
Tags: Amanda Sobhy, Boston, Emily Whitlock, Nour El Sherbini, Nour El Tayeb, USA, Women's World Junior Squash Championship, WSF • Categories: all posts, players, tournaments
Emily Whitlock (pic), a 17-year-old from England in her maiden appearance in the Women’s World Junior Championships, stormed into the semi-finals in Boston, USA, after upsetting 18-year-old home hope Olivia Blatchford 11-8, 11-8, 11-7. Whitlock will now face Egypt’s Nour El Tayeb, the 18-year-old who is seeded to reach the final for the 3rd year in a row – but expected to win the title for the 1st time. El Tayeb saw off compatriot Salma Hany 11-8, 11-0, 11-4. The other semi-final will pitch 2010 champion Amanda Sobhy against the 2009 winner Nour El Sherbini. Sobhy, the 18-year-old who last year became the first US squash player to win a world singles title, defeated unseeded 14-year-old Egyptian Mariam Ibrahim Metwally 11-6, 11-3, 11-5. El Sherbini stunned the squash world 2 years ago when she won the title in India aged just 13 – becoming youngest world champion ever. The 3/4 seed beat fellow Egyptian Nouran El Torky 11-8, 11-3, 11-4.
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July 23, 2011 •
Tags: Aamir Atlas Khan, Greg Gaultier, Jenny Duncalf, Malaysia, Malaysian Open, Nicol David, PSA, WISPA • Categories: all posts, players, tournaments
At the 1st appearance at the Malaysian Open Frenchman Greg Gaultier took the title straight back home, when he was in full control of Pakistan’s Aamir Atlas Khan. With a straight games victory (11-8, 11-3, 11-3) Gaultier took after 43 minutes of play the 18th PSA title in his career. There are 35 titles more on Nicol David’s account after the women’s world No.1 overcame England’s world No.2 Jenny Duncalf 11-6, 12-10, 11-5 to take her 7th consecutive Malaysian Open crown.
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July 23, 2011 •
Tags: Amanda Sobhy, Mariam Ibrahim Metwally, Nour El Tayeb, USA, Women's World Junior Squash Championship, WSF • Categories: all posts, tournaments
Mariam Ibrahim Metwally (pic) became the youngest – and the only unseeded – player to claim a place in the quarter-finals of the Women’s World Junior Individual Championships after upsetting Egyptian compatriot Kanzy Emad El-Defrawy in the 4th round in Boston, USA. As the competition heads to its climax, the 14-year-old is joined by 4 Egyptians in the last 8 – 2 of whom are sure to reach the semi-finals – plus US hopes Olivia Blatchford and defending champion Amanda Sobhy, together with England’s European champion Emily Whitlock. Quarter-final line-up: [1] Nour El Tayeb (EGY) v [9/16] Salma Hany (EGY); [3/4] Olivia Blatchford (USA) v [5/8] Emily Whitlock (ENG); [3/4] Nour El Sherbini (EGY) v [5/8] Nouran El Torky (EGY); [2] Amanda Sobhy (USA) v Mariam Ibrahim Metwally (EGY).
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July 22, 2011 •
Tags: Aamir Atlas Khan, Greg Gaultier, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Open, PSA • Categories: all posts, players, tournaments
Unseeded Pakistani Aamir Atlas Khan continued his giant-killing run in the semi-finals of the CIMB Malaysian Open to set up a meeting with French favourite Greg Gaultier (pic) in the final in Kuala Lumpur. After recovering from the loss of the opening game, the 20-year-old world No28 Khan defeated Australian Cameron Pilley 10-12, 11-6, 11-4, 11-9 in 54 minutes to reach the 10th PSA Tour final of his career. Meanwhile Gaultier, the world No6 in his maiden appearance in the event, chalked up his 3rd straight games win in the tournament when he beat qualifier Alan Clyne who had enjoyed one his most impressive recent Tour runs – making his breakthrough in the opening round by ousting 4th seed Hisham Ashour before overcoming a further Egyptian Karim Abdel Gawad.
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