June 2012

Nick Matthew: 1st Englishman won three British Open titles!

June 8, 2012 • Tags: , , , • Categories: all posts, players, videos

Nick Matthew is the 1st Englishman who won 3 British Open titles after beating Ramy Ashour in straight games in London’s O2 Arena to take the title of the Allam British Open 2012 …

Corren claims 40th PSA Tour title!

June 7, 2012 • Tags: , , , , , • Categories: all posts, associations, players

Australia’s Mike Corren clocked up his 40th title on the PSA World Tour when he beat Englishman Lewis Walters in the final of the International Golden Open in Kalgoorlie, Australia.

Corren was leading 11-8, 11-2 when second seed Walters, who injured his ankle during the quarter-finals, decided he was unable to continue, handing Corren his 3rd Golden Open crown in the past 4 years.

The 38-years-old Corren is showing no signs of slowing down and said he had now set his sights on winning 50 PSA titles.

Final:
[1] Mike Corren (AUS) bt [2] Lewis Walters (ENG) 11-8, 11-2 ret. (20m)

Semi-finals:
[1] Mike Corren (AUS) bt [3] Justin Beard (AUS) 11-7, 11-4, 11-6 (30m)
[2] Lewis Walters (ENG) bt [4] Matthew Serediak (CAN) 12-10, 11-2, 11-6 (41m)

Quarter-finals:
[1] Mike Corren (AUS) bt Tom Pashley (ENG) 11-8, 11-9, 11-9 (43m)
[3] Justin Beard (AUS) bt Tim Cowell (AUS) 11-1, 11-6, 11-7 (38m)
[4] Matthew Serediak (CAN) bt Adam Murrills (ENG) 11-7, 11-7, 11-1 (28m)
[2] Lewis Walters (ENG) bt [Q] Arthur Moineau (FRA) 14-12, 11-5, 11-7 (38m)

1st round:
[1] Mike Corren (AUS) bt Cameron Stafford (CAY) 11-5, 11-7, 11-8 (25m)
Tom Pashley (ENG) bt [Q] Joshua Southwell-Nobbs (AUS) 11-8, 11-0, 11-4 (24m)
Tim Cowell (AUS) bt Walter Koteka (AUS) 11-5, 11-4, 11-7 (23m)
[3] Justin Beard (AUS) bt [Q] Jack Jago (ENG) 11-4, 11-13, 11-8, 11-6 (54m)
[4] Matthew Serediak (CAN) bt [Q] Richard Birks (ENG) 8-11, 11-3, 11-5, 11-2 (43m)
Adam Murrills (ENG) bt Reuben Phillips (ENG) 11-8, 11-7, 11-2 (37m)
[Q] Arthur Moineau (FRA) bt Jonathan Geekie (SCO) 11-9, 11-6, 11-5 (26m)
[2] Lewis Walters (ENG) bt Jamie McErvale (AUS) 11-9, 11-5, 9-11, 11-9 (49m)

Ramy on the run!

June 6, 2012 • Tags: , , • Categories: all posts, players, videos

In the all-Egyptian quarter-final match at the Allam British Open Ramy Ashour was tested by Amr Shabana, as Ashour had to do a lot of running …

Sherbini becomes youngest ever World top ten star!

June 5, 2012 • Tags: , , , , • Categories: all posts, associations, players

It is the Egyptian teenagers who got the headlines for the WSA June Rankings, as Nour El Sherbini (ri) reach the final of the Allam British Open in May, beating 3 higher seeds on the way to be the youngest and the 1st Egyptian female in a British Open final. The sixteen-year-old leaps 8 places in the WSA Rankings to sit at No7 in the world.

At the top of the rankings, Nicol David (le, MAS) and Jenny Duncalf (ENG) remain unmoved, but Laura Massaro (ENG) has maintained her game of cat-and-mouse with Madeline Perry (IRE) by reclaiming the No3 spot. Raneem El Weleily of Egypt has moved up to No4, her highest ranking to date, whilst Perry has dropped to 5th spot.

June 2012 top 20 (inc. points average):
1 [1] Nicol David MAS 3,654
2 [2] Jenny Duncalf ENG 1,643
3 [4] Laura Massaro ENG 1,439
4 [5] Raneem El Weleily EGY 1,404
5 [3] Madeline Perry IRL 1,298
6 [6] Annie Au HKG 1,009
7 [15] Nour El Sherbini EGY 958
8 [10] Camille Serme FRAU 937
9 [8] Rachael Grinham AUS 889
10 [7] Kasey Brown AUS 870
11 [9] Natalie Grinham NED 868
12 [11] Samantha Teran MEX 756
13 [12]Joelle King NZL 749
14 [13] Low Wee Wern MAS 659
15 [14] Dipika Pallikal IND 657
16 [17] Donna Urquhart AUS 509
17 [16] Joey Chan HKG 507
18 [19] Jaclyn Hawkes NZL 499
19 [18] Omneya Abdel Kawy EGY 436
20 [21] Delia Arnold MAS 416

Willstrop at the top – Matthew gets closer!

June 3, 2012 • Tags: , , , , • Categories: all posts, associations, players

Historic title success in last month's Allam British Open has seen Nick Matthew (pic) reduce the gap behind James Willstrop in the new June Dunlop PSA Men's World Rankings – but fellow Englishman Willstrop holds onto the top spot.

Matthew beat Egyptian rival Ramy Ashour in straight games in the final of the 4th PSA World Series event of the year at the prestigious O2 Arena in London to become the 1st Englishman in the 82-year history of the British Open to win a 3rd title.

But the dramatic events in the final stages of the 1st staging of the world-famous event since 2009 did nothing to change the top 5 of the latest world rankings – Willstrop moving into his 5th month at No1, followed by Matthew at 2; British Open quarter-finalist Greg Gaultier in 3rd place; Ashour at No4 and fellow Egyptian Karim Darwish at 5.

But England’s Peter Barker, the Londoner who fully capitalised on ‘hometown advantage’ at the O2 by beating Frenchman Gaultier for only the second time over the past 7 years, rises to a career-high-equalling 6th place.

Thierry Lincou, the 36-year-old Frenchman who won the Bluenose Classic in Canada in April unseeded, returns to the top 10 after slipping to a 10-and-a-half-year career low 13 earlier in the year.

And England’s Tom Richards also equals his career-best ranking of 15 after making the British Open last 16 for the first time.

After coming close to producing the biggest shock of the 2012 British Open by leading 2/0 and 8-6 against Ramy Ashour, Spaniard Borja Golan celebrates the biggest rise in the top 20 by jumping two places to No18.

June 2012 top 20 (inc. points average):
1 [1] James Willstrop ENG 1,685
2 [2] Nick Matthew ENG 1,503
3 [3] Gregory Gaultier FRA 1,296
4 [4] Ramy Ashour EGY 1,123
5 [5] Karim Darwish EGY 961
6 [7] Peter Barker ENG 683
7 [6] Amr Shabana EGY 650
8 [8] Mohamed El Shorbagy EGY 615
9 [9] Laurens Jan Anjema NED 537
10 [11] Thierry Lincou FRA 454
11 [10] Daryl Selby ENG 432
12 [12] Omar Mosaad EGY 419
13 [13] Alister Walker BOT 373
14 [14] Hisham Mohd Ashour EGY 367
15 [16] Tom Richards ENG 365
16 [15] Mohd Azlan Iskandar MAS 354
17 [17] Adrian Grant ENG 346
18 [20] Borja Golan ESP 329
19 [18] Cameron Pilley AUS 328
20 [19] Simon Rosner GER 316