Karim Darwish

Top seeds into Swedish Open semis!

The top two seeds moved safely into the semi-finals of the Case Swedish Open following contrasting quarter-finals in Linköping. Egypt's world No4 Karim Darwish (pic ri) overcome Nicolas Mueller (pic le) in 4 games 11-5, 11-7, 6-11, 12-10 ...

Selby stuns Darwish in Grand Central upset!

In an opening day (bottom half of the draw) of the Tournament of Champions in New York which was littered with upsets, England's Daryl Selby claimed a big scalp with a career-first win (4-11, 13-11, 11-8, 11-5 ) over Egypt's Karim Darwish ...

Greg Gaultier goes for no. three!

Frenchman Greg Gaultier (pic ri) was looking for his 4th final of the World Series Finals – he won in 2008, 2009 and became runner-up in 2007. To make it again, he recovered from 0:4 down in the 1st game to beat Egyptian former World No1 ...

World Series semi-finals completed!

Determined former World No1 Karim Darwish saw off 20-year-old fellow Egyptian Mohamed El Shorbagy in the final pool round of the ATCO PSA World Series Squash Finals in London to clinch the last semi-final slot. The young pretender, ranked a career-high ...

Favorites marches on in New Delhi!

The opening match saw Egypt's 6th seed Mohamed El Shorbagy (pic ri) beating Spaniard Borja Golan 11-6, 11-8, 6-11, 11-7. El Shorbagy will now face fellow countryman Karim Darwish after the No2 seed despatched England's Tom Richards 11-3, 11-4, 11-6 ...

Matthew out of PSA Masters!

An injury sustained in last month's PSA Kuwait Cup has forced top seed Nick Matthew to withdraw from next week's Punj Lloyd PSA Masters, the 9th and final 2011 World Series event in India. Title success in the New Delhi event a year ago led the Englishman to the top of the world rankings ...

And the winner is: James Willstrop!

Englishman James Willstrop (pic ri) claimed his 2nd consecutive World Series title as he beat Egyptian Karim Darwish (pic le) 11-7, 10-12, 11-4, 11-2 in the final of the Kuwait Cup, his 5th World Series crown overall. After last week’s Hong Kong ...

It’s Willstrop and Darwish again!

The two Hong Kong Open finalists, Englishman James Willstrop (pic front) and Egyptian Karim Darwish have been able to set up the same situation in the Kuwait Cup final, as Willstrop beat Frenchman Greg Gaultier (pic back) in straight games ...