Karim Darwish

World Open quarters lined up!

The 2nd part of round 2 of the Saudi World Open showed again, that all higher ranked players get through to the quarter-finals. Englishman Peter Barker needed 56 minutes to beat Australian fellow Stewart Boswell in straight games (11-6, 11-6, 11-9). Af...

$100,000 for eight players at the Squash Temple in Luxor!

It took Egypt’s Karim Darwish 5 points to claim the biggest prize for a squash competition ever. The world No.3 beat compatriot Ramy Ashour 5/4 in the final of the Red Bull Squash Temple in front on the famous temple in Luxor. After two days of pool ...

David and Darwish did it in Qatar!

The Malaysian World No. 1 Nicol David and the Egyptian Karim Darwish are the new Qatar Classic champions. David needed just 34 minutes to take her 50th tour title against Australian 4th seed Rachael Grinham 11-5, 11-8, 11-9. In the all-Egyptian final, ...

All-Egyptian men’s final in Qatar!

It needed 71 minutes before 4-times world champion Amr Shabana (pic ri) of Egypt had the luckier end in the 5th games (3-11, 11-4, 11-7, 6-11, 12-10) against French star Greg Gaultier (pic le). “Anybody could have won, it was like flipping a coin”,...

Five nations complete Qatar Classic semis!

Australian Rachael Grinham (pic) stayed on top of a five games shoot-out with Egyptian Raneem El Weleily (12-10, 9-11, 14-16, 11-7, 11-5). The following all-English match was controlled by Jenny Duncalf, who overcame Laura Massaro in straight games (11...

Favourites get to the quarters!

The match of the two legends lasted 75 minutes, in which Frenchman Thierry Lincou (pic ri) had the better end against Australian David Palmer (pic le) (8-11, 11-4, 11-5, 3-11, 11-5). Afterwards 3rd seed Karim Darwish (EGY) shortened the head-to-heads t...

The First 4 matches on day 2 in Qatar …

The First 4 matches on day 2 in Qatar did end with victories of the favourite players in different styles. While Australian 11th seed David Palmer did not feel at his best, he was still in control to beat the Englishman Jonathan Kemp 11-5, 11-9, 11-6 i...

Selby scored the best win of his career!

While Daryl Selby celebrated the best win of his career when he recorded his first ever victory over England team-mate Nick Matthew, the 5th seeded Frenchman Greg Gaultier (pic red) beats England's Adrian Grant (pic blue) 11-3, 11-4, 11-6. Egyptians Am...